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My two youngest took a class at Utah Valley University called "CS 1030 Foundations of Computer Science". It starts with the real basics--what is a hard disk, what is memory and so on. By about the halfway mark, they started rudimentary C# programming. I don't know your age, but my daughter took this class in high school through an extension program (where she could get both high school and college credit.)
Check with your local university or community college to see if they have a similar course. They may also have an online version.
Stanford has free online courses: (Stanford University • Free Online Courses and MOOCs | Class Central[^]). Anyone taken any of these?
EDIT: This looks very similar to the class my kids took: Reviews for Computer Science 101 from Stanford OpenEdx | Class Central[^]
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What is your goal? Do you plan to make a career as a software developer? Are you just wanting to learn what programming is like? How much experience do you currently have, and what level of understanding do you have of how computers function?
Many people on this forum are recommending C# (primarily because this is a Visual Studio/C# heavy forum). If you are just wanting to learn the basics of simple programming, learning C# to create simple programs is a little like using a sledgehammer to drive in a thumbtack. While I don't have much experience with Python, I understand it to be a nice interpretive language that will provide you with immediate feedback. The various facets of C#, and the added complication of a compiler make simple introduction daunting.
On the other hand, before you would enter any plans for a profession, obviously, you would need to learn MUCH more than Python.
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The track you will choose will depend on your interest. If you prefer frontend brush up your skill in html/css then to JavaScript and later on you move it to Php. However, if you prefer data science, the go for python but try to know a lit bit of html.
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... I thought it might fit me, and some of our other senior bike riders: Sons of Anarchy T Shirt[^]
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Amen brother
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Depends - what are you riding? Wheel chair or imperial walker[^]???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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That needs to become a thing. With buttons to fire the laser cannons and thumb toggle for turning the head. Pew, pew!
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You calculate that your model will take 3.5 billion times the age of the universe to run.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Maybe you just need to code it in assembler?
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That should be plenty of time for it to complete! What's the rush?
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If you need optimization help, you could post a question in Q/A...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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On the bright side, by the time anyone notices the output isn't accurate that becomes somebody else's problem...
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It won't matter once they invent time travel, so just make that an assumption in your model and you're good to go.
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Playing God again?
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You can just tell everyone that you were doing a little exercise with the Biggest O notation.
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Slow down, your computer is moving too close to the speed of light (or to close to a black hole) ...
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Just a minor glitch with the UI. The output is in femtoseconds but the label reads Seconds?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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For being serious (i.e. pretending that this was not meant as a joke):
No, in that case you can forget about optimizing - you must select an entirely different algorithm to solve your problem. If that doesn't exist, then the problem is not solvable (except in theory).
Heuristics may sometimes be available to find a "good enough" solution, though.
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Bingo.
I was being lazy and thinking of a brute force approach but I think I can cluster the variables and probably reduce the set of values I need to model fairly significantly.
I'm hoping to get it down to a lower multiple of the age of the universe.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We're back with round 2 of the Summer Fun with Arduino Challenge and this time we've thrown in a new Arduino challenge and a new prize to go along with it, i.e. the Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen Display from CanaKit.
So grab your Arduino (or the Arduino simulator) and get in on the action. And in case you're wondering, round 1 participants and winners can try any (or all) of the challenges again. There's another $5000 worth of prizes up for grabs. Enter now.
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From my PM:
Did you do a get latest before mating your change?
I think the PM meant "merging."
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If not, your code may now be well and truly...
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If you're using git and knowing the colloquialisms, he got that right.
This space for rent
modified 6-Jul-18 16:02pm.
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Or it could have been "making".
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