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The more I think about it, it's not a bad idea. I definitely would not replace the beginning Java/beginning programming course, but having a Pre-Algebra type course in programming would be helpful to many students. It would provide multiple degree/career paths, because not everyone is meant to be an application developer.
Programming was not on my radar, but in the mid to late 90's I started creating HTML sites and eventually ended up as a web developer. I then went back to school for computer science and the first two programming course, C++ and then Java, were ridiculous for me. I needed to learn ASP and JavaScript for work, then I needed to learn C++ and Java at home. It was a great challenge that I succeeded at, but my career path might had been different, as well as a lot of students that give up. High-level programming languages are not really needed for the web designer/developers. Not only would it provide an optional degree and career path, such as strictly web development/design, students would have more success and the industry would have more specialists instead of being coupled to only computer science.
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alert('Hello, world!');
Didn't I recently see something about Google floating a proposal to remove alert from JS entirely? What'll be next, "this class best taken in IE11".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Great, more "programmers" who don't understand what computers actually do.
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Researchers from several German universities have checked the PHP codebases of over 64,000 projects on GitHub, and found 117 vulnerabilities that they believe have been introduced through the use of code from popular but insufficiently reviewed tutorials. Copy/Paste code deemed risky
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Them as can, do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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On Friday, April 7, the FBI arrested Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, who now stands accused of installing malware on his employer's servers to steal proprietary source. See: "Self-fulfilling prophecy"
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Damn those bloody Chinese hackers!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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- How stupid can you be?
- Will your family be more proud of your character or your money?
- Will the potential 10 years in prison give you enough time to think?
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From machine learning to digital twins, opportunities abound in emerging (and converging) tech trends. Bonus #12: Googling (at least for *some* developers)
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I just don't understand why coffee machines and bacon smokers aren't at the top of the list.
I mean, they said "now", didn't they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus #12: Googling (at least for *some* "developers") FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A group of aurora enthusiasts have found a new type of light in the night sky and named it Steve. At least it's better than Aurora McAuroraface
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Astronomers with ridiculously high budgets replied: Hey, look, how are supposed to actually find anything, when we spend all out time making pretty pictures wit photoshop? He's not asking me, is he?
Is he asking me?
Well, OK, but he must know that his stars don't favour asking me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cohort study that doesn’t look at causation has some odd results. Breaking news: everything is bad for you
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small quantities, over a long period of time.
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It's hardly surprising.
You have to be nutty as a fruit cake in the first place, to drink that swill.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did script kiddies use DoublePulsar code released by NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers? Funny thing about doors: you can't control who uses them
Well, most doors. I'm sure Ray Manzarek controls The Doors these days.
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Safest! Government! Evah!
Where's my wu mao?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure Ray Manzarek controls The Doors these days.
He's lying down on the job.
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Making a demo in just 256 bytes would be a formidable challenge regardless of platform. A Mind Is Born is my attempt to do it on the Commodore 64. I don't think I could save a file with 256 bytes, let alone get it to do anything
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I'd go with "boggled", rather than "born".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This guy is clearly the brainiac to end all brainiacs, or as an anonymous poster so eloquently puts it: "this s**t is gangster as f**k."
Ah! The internet! All of human life is there ...
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Awesome - it's been far too long since I last saw demos getting some love here at CP.
Poeut.net is the place to hang around if you love 'em and arguably, Farbrausch is one of the premier groups. Future Crew, TRSI and others all come to mind as being stalwarts of the craft, but the 'Debris' demo from Farbrausch still melts my head - that's an awful lot to pack into just 96kb. Looking at their content-creation tool Werkzeug helps explain just how such a feat is managed.
If music is more your thing than graphics/physics, then you can hardly go past the amazing work done by Blueberry / Loonies in the CLINKSTER synth. 3.5 minutes of 48k stereo music can fit into an .exe file of just 2,838 bytes - it's craaazy.
I look back at my bump-mapped rotozoomer from the 90s that comes complete with a 3d particle system (but no music) and laugh that it needed some 5kb - clearly these guys have a little more nous in the compression game than I had as a teenager! The 'crinkler' compressing linker is a thing of beauty and truly something to behold - you can easily create a dialog-based app that weighs in at under 1kb on disk.
If you've not walked the path towards demos, you've not lived!!!
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Several major banks don't use case-sensitive passwords. What's the worst that could happen?
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Hope they don't store it "ASCII encrypted"...
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