Check out newsgroups or message boards and you see this all the time. The message boards at cprogramming.com always have these posts where students just put up their homework questions and want the answer - they could at least say please, or what the hell, just offer money for the first correct answer!
BTW, what's up with only 18 pages? Mine was thirty pages typed in 1982, so no PC to do nice editing, had to use white-out or start the whole page over again... AND WE LIKED IT, WE LIKED IT.
I like Angelina in the role - she has the attitude down. But doesn't Alyssa Milano look a lot more like Laura Croft? Plus she does some cool martial arts moves in Charmed every once in a while.
What the hell is up with Slashdot? This was on the quickies yesterday. If this article was a post, it would be moderated down as redundant. What a waste of time.
Man was that a bad show or what? Still, I planted my kiddie butt right in front of the tube for every episode since it was just that and Star Trek episodes you'd already seen three or four times. Thanks for the memories, I'd forgotten all about it.
You can't worry about things 10 years out at any age, especially 15 years old. As far as parents wanting there children to go into CS, when did children start doing what their parents want? That's not going to happen anytime soon! Just do what you enjoy, worrying about future job markets will just drive you crazy. If you like CS, go for it.
Bringing the consumer and business versions together in Whistler was news to me (was that on Slashdot, I don't remember seeing it). If I remember, Windows 2000 supposed to do this, then they scrapped the idea and kept the separate kernels (Windows 98 and NT) going because of the complexity of bringing the two together. Were they close enough to accomplishing this that another year will let it materialize? I would imagine there's more to it than simplifying the interfaces for the consumer users.
Congratulations, OOG, you have amazing insight. Where would you put your money now? Would you short-sell any of these companies? Maybe Barrons will give you a weekly column.
Keep up the great work, I really enjoy your posts.
I read about these in Business Week around two years ago. Of course, it's a story about dating, and this is supposed to be news for us nerds, so maybe it's appropriate that we are a bit behind in this area:-)
You probably aren't missing much. I got a 600MHz (Coppermine) Dell with Win98 just before Christmas, and when I worked on my father-in-law's "old" 350MHz PII Dell (also with Win98 and same hard drive as mine) over the holidays I noticed almost no difference in speed. Made me glad I didn't wait for the 800MHz.
No way, Guinness is the best... racehorse owners in Ireland feed it to their horses, so I figure it has to help me code. Plus, it's like an entire meal in a glass.
Musser and Saini STL Tutorial and Reference Guide was used in one of my courses, but a reference guide is probably not the best way to learn STL (or anything else). The page for it at Amazon is here, so maybe read the reviews from that page and see what you think.
I'm tempted to think some of the problem is schools that introduce programming with C++. University CS departments seem to be doing this quite often, I guess because students don't want to learn a language that's not going to earn them big bucks ASAP (and it's hard to blame them since they need to get internships or part-time jobs, and this is not easy if all you know is Pascal). I learned to program with BASIC (yes, a long time ago, 1981) and Fortran77, and I think this helped a lot when I began learning C++. Intro to Programming courses that utilize C++ seem to be so focused on the language (because, yes, it is complex) that programming techniques become a side issue at best. I really like the language, but it's hard for me to believe it's the correct one to start with.
I also recommend Learning Perl, even if you are using Windows. Learning Perl on Win32 Systems does not get that great of reviews and at the entry level you are probably not going to be using anything unique to the Windows environment. BTW, if you aren't used to working from a console environment, Perl is going to be a good new experience for you (if you are going to be working in a Windows command console instead of Linux (or Unix or BSD...), you'll want to set up the console to have higher initial memory than the default so that you aren't dealing with that tiny little console). As far as getting more books, you may want to hold out until you've worked through the first book... I've always been able to find answers to more in-depth material in the Perldocs pretty easily. If you like Perl and start using it, then get hold of Programming Perl. Have fun, I've really enjoyed Perl!
Exactly how many years has he been working on these things?
Knuth started working on TAoCP as a doctoral student at Cal Tech in 1962. He was contracted by his publisher to write a book on compilers, and after four years of work he had a 3,000 page first draft written in pencil. With great foresight, the publisher didn't hassle him, but instead set up a schedule of release for seven volumes (Volume 4 is due in 2004, Volume 5 in 2009). The releases of new volumes was of course slowed down since Knuth devoted 9 years to developing TEX. The "big university" where he is a professor is Stanford.
Night sky over Bagdad during the Gulf War...
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... with all the antiaircraft fire that we would watch on CNN every day. Couldn't have a set of 90's stamps without that.
Agree. BTW, my first post as a newbie here last year (under a previous user name that I changed, so my karma's starting over) got a +2 for its informativeness. I love the freewheeling environment here and the preference tools can filter out junk if you want. I don't mind it... it's part of the community IMHO. If something's ticking people off and it results in ACs, grits, and Ms. Portman, so what?
I think i speak for most people when I say the downsides outweigh the value of posting anonymously...
Count me out, that doesn't speak for me. Anonymous posting is very valuable, and this is the worst the trolls have been. Change the treshold to 1 and go forward I say.
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BTW, what's up with only 18 pages? Mine was thirty pages typed in 1982, so no PC to do nice editing, had to use white-out or start the whole page over again... AND WE LIKED IT, WE LIKED IT.
I like Angelina in the role - she has the attitude down. But doesn't Alyssa Milano look a lot more like Laura Croft? Plus she does some cool martial arts moves in Charmed every once in a while.
If you like Angelina, she is fantastic in Playing God... Angelina alone makes it worth watching (otherwise it is just so-so).
Playing by Heart isn't quite a great movie IMHO, but it is a great date movie. Even guys can like this one... not bad for a romantic movie.
What the hell is up with Slashdot? This was on the quickies yesterday. If this article was a post, it would be moderated down as redundant. What a waste of time.
Try posting on the Borland message board at cprogramming.com.
Man was that a bad show or what? Still, I planted my kiddie butt right in front of the tube for every episode since it was just that and Star Trek episodes you'd already seen three or four times. Thanks for the memories, I'd forgotten all about it.
Or just click here to get to it.
You can't worry about things 10 years out at any age, especially 15 years old. As far as parents wanting there children to go into CS, when did children start doing what their parents want? That's not going to happen anytime soon! Just do what you enjoy, worrying about future job markets will just drive you crazy. If you like CS, go for it.
Bringing the consumer and business versions together in Whistler was news to me (was that on Slashdot, I don't remember seeing it). If I remember, Windows 2000 supposed to do this, then they scrapped the idea and kept the separate kernels (Windows 98 and NT) going because of the complexity of bringing the two together. Were they close enough to accomplishing this that another year will let it materialize? I would imagine there's more to it than simplifying the interfaces for the consumer users.
Keep up the great work, I really enjoy your posts.
I read about these in Business Week around two years ago. Of course, it's a story about dating, and this is supposed to be news for us nerds, so maybe it's appropriate that we are a bit behind in this area :-)
You probably aren't missing much. I got a 600MHz (Coppermine) Dell with Win98 just before Christmas, and when I worked on my father-in-law's "old" 350MHz PII Dell (also with Win98 and same hard drive as mine) over the holidays I noticed almost no difference in speed. Made me glad I didn't wait for the 800MHz.
CNBC claims that Dell will come out with systems containing these chips soon... whatever soon is.
I use it with only a 233MHz Pentium and it works great.
No way, Guinness is the best... racehorse owners in Ireland feed it to their horses, so I figure it has to help me code. Plus, it's like an entire meal in a glass.
Musser and Saini STL Tutorial and Reference Guide was used in one of my courses, but a reference guide is probably not the best way to learn STL (or anything else). The page for it at Amazon is here, so maybe read the reviews from that page and see what you think.
I'm tempted to think some of the problem is schools that introduce programming with C++. University CS departments seem to be doing this quite often, I guess because students don't want to learn a language that's not going to earn them big bucks ASAP (and it's hard to blame them since they need to get internships or part-time jobs, and this is not easy if all you know is Pascal). I learned to program with BASIC (yes, a long time ago, 1981) and Fortran77, and I think this helped a lot when I began learning C++. Intro to Programming courses that utilize C++ seem to be so focused on the language (because, yes, it is complex) that programming techniques become a side issue at best. I really like the language, but it's hard for me to believe it's the correct one to start with.
I also recommend Learning Perl, even if you are using Windows. Learning Perl on Win32 Systems does not get that great of reviews and at the entry level you are probably not going to be using anything unique to the Windows environment. BTW, if you aren't used to working from a console environment, Perl is going to be a good new experience for you (if you are going to be working in a Windows command console instead of Linux (or Unix or BSD...), you'll want to set up the console to have higher initial memory than the default so that you aren't dealing with that tiny little console). As far as getting more books, you may want to hold out until you've worked through the first book... I've always been able to find answers to more in-depth material in the Perldocs pretty easily. If you like Perl and start using it, then get hold of Programming Perl. Have fun, I've really enjoyed Perl!
That .wav file from Everquest is great... I just found a new "Exit Windows" sound!
Sounds to me like Inspector Clouseau is heading up the French Defence Ministry these days.
Knuth started working on TAoCP as a doctoral student at Cal Tech in 1962. He was contracted by his publisher to write a book on compilers, and after four years of work he had a 3,000 page first draft written in pencil. With great foresight, the publisher didn't hassle him, but instead set up a schedule of release for seven volumes (Volume 4 is due in 2004, Volume 5 in 2009). The releases of new volumes was of course slowed down since Knuth devoted 9 years to developing TEX. The "big university" where he is a professor is Stanford.
... with all the antiaircraft fire that we would watch on CNN every day. Couldn't have a set of 90's stamps without that.
Agree. BTW, my first post as a newbie here last year (under a previous user name that I changed, so my karma's starting over) got a +2 for its informativeness. I love the freewheeling environment here and the preference tools can filter out junk if you want. I don't mind it... it's part of the community IMHO. If something's ticking people off and it results in ACs, grits, and Ms. Portman, so what?
Count me out, that doesn't speak for me. Anonymous posting is very valuable, and this is the worst the trolls have been. Change the treshold to 1 and go forward I say.