I made that up. I've never owned an alpha machine. But I'm sure if i see one anywhere I'll buy it and add it to the eth3rnet that wishes it was a high speed cluster (=!! I'm actually just posting here to compliment the moderators. For karma's sake have pity on me! ok here we go. N4tAl|e P0r7M4n 4Ev3r!!!!!!
please dont teach them any kind of basic. It has a syntax that just messes people up for later on when they will want to learn C. maybe this would be too much for them when it comes down to messing with to much memory but if you do it right I dont see why they couldnt start out with a few sub-routines for pixel writing and just write dos-based asm programs. it isnt that complicated! once they get the idea of being able to mv bytes(explain it as a number or string value) between registers adn calling code sections it is all fairly simple. they may be writing lots of code when it comes to more than simple line drawing. but it'll be fun for themto do some simple graphics along with their printf style calls without having to bother with the libs anmd api's that you have to call all the time when you use VB! Maybe I've been a coding too long and I'm off my rocker. But if anyone agrees tell me so. of course kids often dont actually wanna get their hands to dirty. they would rather dream of the games they want to make. But you know you're kids better than any of us stupid/.ers:) I always suggest that anyone, who is already interested and is over 13 years of age, start with C because of how logical it is and 50 keywords isnt all that much to learn. really! -ryan fsckin' Microshaft corporate wh*res run those schools. I cant believe they teach them vb. python is what the highschools should teach but that isnt good for MS and graphics work.
Sure it's better than notepad in windows! But thats not saying anything. Gnome is cool but the functionality of Emacs and JED kick the crap out of gedit. I used to use it for schoolwork:)
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I made that up. I've never owned an alpha machine. But I'm sure if i see one anywhere I'll buy it and add it to the eth3rnet that wishes it was a high speed cluster (=!! I'm actually just posting here to compliment the moderators. For karma's sake have pity on me! ok here we go. N4tAl|e P0r7M4n 4Ev3r!!!!!!
please dont teach them any kind of basic. It has a syntax that just messes people up for later on when they will want to learn C. maybe this would be too much for them when it comes down to messing with to much memory but if you do it right I dont see why they couldnt start out with a few sub-routines for pixel writing and just write dos-based asm programs. it isnt that complicated! once they get the idea of being able to mv bytes(explain it as a number or string value) between registers adn calling code sections it is all fairly simple. they may be writing lots of code when it comes to more than simple line drawing. but it'll be fun for themto do some simple graphics along with their printf style calls without having to bother with the libs anmd api's that you have to call all the time when you use VB! Maybe I've been a coding too long and I'm off my rocker. But if anyone agrees tell me so. of course kids often dont actually wanna get their hands to dirty. they would rather dream of the games they want to make. But you know you're kids better than any of us stupid /.ers :) I always suggest that anyone, who is already interested and is over 13 years of age, start with C because of how logical it is and 50 keywords isnt all that much to learn. really! -ryan fsckin' Microshaft corporate wh*res run those schools. I cant believe they teach them vb. python is what the highschools should teach but that isnt good for MS and graphics work.
Sure it's better than notepad in windows! But thats not saying anything. Gnome is cool but the functionality of Emacs and JED kick the crap out of gedit. I used to use it for schoolwork:)
No argument needed.
Colored highlighting for C on
top of emacs.
Definitley superior to vi.
right on guys!
-Ryan
I've been thinking we need more database options for Linux to be widely used in the commercial world. Good stuff.