Try explaining the meaning of "public static void main(String[] args)" to somebody who's never written any code before...
I feel that not enough people appreciate this fact right here. Sure you can complain about Python and it's whitespace or weak-typing, but when you are trying to teach someone who's brand new to programming, getting a "Hello " is at least an hour of explanation of classes and methods and Java Stuff (tm).
This is the biggest positive I have for picking Python first, the interpreter. You can just open it up and start typing commands and writing statements and the people learning it start to "get" it a lot faster.
When you want to teach Java to someone who's new to programming you have to introduce Classes (which is a strange concept to a day 1 learner), methods (static? private? public? what does this all mean??), and a lot of other "need-to-knows" just in order to get a simple "insert name, hello " program out the door.
This takes all of 3 lines and half an hour to explain in Python, and people start to quickly grasp the basics behind programming without having to worry about the behind the scenes stuff.*
*which should still be taught, just don't need to dump it on them day 1 - what's the rush?
I enjoy games that compete for high score, but the landscape is just too different.
It's one thing when you're the kind of the local arcade that sees 1,000 unique players a year, but it's another thing when you're competing online with literally millions of others. The top 10 are usually all cheats/hackers who just want to see their name in lights.
I much prefer the trend of having Friend Leaderboards, or Local Leaderboards, just to help provide some level of context to your score.
I will happily switch back and forth between controller and keyboard. RAGE was a game that controlled better with mouse and keyboard while shooting, but the driving felt a lot better with a controller.
I don't mind having to switch if the game is fun - and it's kind of neat getting to swap between input mechanisms.
Not to say that acid is any more harmful than pot, but if you went to your employer and asked: "would you rather I smoked pot or dropped acid?" I am pretty confident they'd vote for pot.
And yet we test for pot because (1) it's "evil" and (2) it's super easy to test for, it sticks around in your system for far too long to be indicative of ANYTHING.
It costs a lot of money. Planes rarely go missing like this.
It's really just a matter of economics. You'd have to shell out $100 grand per plane (some possibly mis-heard quote from NPR weeks back so take this number with large grains of sale), and it would cost a lot more upgrading infrastructures around the world to work with the new systems.
Then factor in the idea that some countries may not want to put in some better security/tracking of planes in the light of NSA reveals - let alone an american company spearheading this conversion like GM or Boeing; you start to see that for the most part people are willing to put up with a few missing planes a decade (awful, isn't it?) in order to save a couple bucks this quarter.
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Try explaining the meaning of "public static void main(String[] args)" to somebody who's never written any code before...
I feel that not enough people appreciate this fact right here. Sure you can complain about Python and it's whitespace or weak-typing, but when you are trying to teach someone who's brand new to programming, getting a "Hello " is at least an hour of explanation of classes and methods and Java Stuff (tm).
Quick, one more "fucking" and we can get a Yahtzee!
This is the biggest positive I have for picking Python first, the interpreter. You can just open it up and start typing commands and writing statements and the people learning it start to "get" it a lot faster.
When you want to teach Java to someone who's new to programming you have to introduce Classes (which is a strange concept to a day 1 learner), methods (static? private? public? what does this all mean??), and a lot of other "need-to-knows" just in order to get a simple "insert name, hello " program out the door.
This takes all of 3 lines and half an hour to explain in Python, and people start to quickly grasp the basics behind programming without having to worry about the behind the scenes stuff.*
*which should still be taught, just don't need to dump it on them day 1 - what's the rush?
Why do you need a switch?
Is it faster than if/elif?
(Honestly asking, I use Python and looked for a switch statement before reading that it didn't make that big of a difference)
I laughed, consider this +1 Funny.
I enjoy games that compete for high score, but the landscape is just too different.
It's one thing when you're the kind of the local arcade that sees 1,000 unique players a year, but it's another thing when you're competing online with literally millions of others. The top 10 are usually all cheats/hackers who just want to see their name in lights.
I much prefer the trend of having Friend Leaderboards, or Local Leaderboards, just to help provide some level of context to your score.
I do lots of things with my life, including trolling [...]
Haha why would you write such a thing?
Is this what kids do for fun nowadays? Even if you do "troll", why the hell would you tell anyone this?
I don't know if I should shake my stick at you for being a shitty internet netizen or shake my stick at you for being a shitty troll.
It's not doing nothing.
You've got a real simplistic idea of what the Kinect does, even if I agree with your sentiment that the Kinect is bad/useless.
I will happily switch back and forth between controller and keyboard. RAGE was a game that controlled better with mouse and keyboard while shooting, but the driving felt a lot better with a controller.
I don't mind having to switch if the game is fun - and it's kind of neat getting to swap between input mechanisms.
The game was bad though.
Go away little child.
Man you get proven wrong in like every conversation thread on this page. /. cheevo for that.
There has to be some kind of
(hi narcc)
Go back to bed, kid.
Valve's ONLY motivation isn't the goodness of their hearts to the Linux community, it's to stop Microsoft from eating their lunch with the storefront.
The enemy of my enemy...
The 51% rule is a myth.
Where does Metacritic get those reviews from?
Why the hell would you be nervous at a job interview if your qualified for the job?! I've never had a job interview where i was nervous.
Cool.
Thanks for the fun post!
See this is the most annoying part.
Not to say that acid is any more harmful than pot, but if you went to your employer and asked: "would you rather I smoked pot or dropped acid?" I am pretty confident they'd vote for pot.
And yet we test for pot because (1) it's "evil" and (2) it's super easy to test for, it sticks around in your system for far too long to be indicative of ANYTHING.
Have you ever: used a computer?
I'm confused on the emphasis here.
Are you from LiveJournal?
Angry you didn't get the first post or something, kid?
The amount of ignorance in this post is incredible.
BLAZE ON ANONYMOUS COWARD.
It's effective when playing the long-game.
It's mostly pointless to try to keep up with 0-day hacks as some kind of system-wide approach that covers any number of games.
Really VAC is there to pick up the idiots too dumb to even be allowed to get away with hacking.
I still believe the only people that use an RT device are Microsoft employees and/or people who are confused on what Windows RT really was.
It costs a lot of money.
Planes rarely go missing like this.
It's really just a matter of economics. You'd have to shell out $100 grand per plane (some possibly mis-heard quote from NPR weeks back so take this number with large grains of sale), and it would cost a lot more upgrading infrastructures around the world to work with the new systems.
Then factor in the idea that some countries may not want to put in some better security/tracking of planes in the light of NSA reveals - let alone an american company spearheading this conversion like GM or Boeing; you start to see that for the most part people are willing to put up with a few missing planes a decade (awful, isn't it?) in order to save a couple bucks this quarter.