The article says that the source is "Sans Tables".. in other words, it's useless. So what's the point? Isn't it the encryption keys that are actually the "trade secrets" in question?
Actually at my school there are courses for learning graphics principles and APIs. Ha-ha.
Anyways, in general, if you want to learn something specific, you will probably have to teach yourself. Your school probably has an "independent study" type class. If you can get a professor to sponsor you, you would then be able to clear space in your course load to do so without actually dropping below "full time".
In the last group of interviewes I had, I asked them to describe their C++ skills. The ones who said "very strong" I asked them a couple of questions. "What is an abstract class? "and "Can a child access it's parents private data?". No one got either question yet they are "strong" c++ developers
What is even worse is that these are not necessarily C++ questions, but just general object-oriented principals.
A certain student organization I belong to has about 10 SGI's: Indy's and Indigo 2's. But we can't do anything with them because we don't have Irix. What SGI Linux distros are there that will work on these machines, and have a network install option?
Well, they could still probably make it PG-13 with today's standards
And why is "nudity" (a relative term in and of itself) such a necessarily "bad" thing that people need to be shielded from it? How is it beneath anyone's "standards"?
I do fully agree with you, the reason I said 'Disclaimer: VB blows' was that I did not want to be seen as coming off as a VB advocate, I absolutely despise its language constructs and the efficiency of the code it generates (in particular string manipulation). I was intending to defend RAD tools in general, but the poster I replied to brought up VB, so I continued with that. I prefer Delphi:)
Perhaps my message came off a bit strong on the anti-VB side. I was trying (but failing..) to argue that VB's rapid prototyping was not in anyway going to render 'skilled workers' obsolete, in fact, in order to make a VB app do anything, you still have to write code. And that VB was not any less of a 'real' tool because of its rapid prototyping abilities.
I showed some assclown the Delphi IDE once and he started complaining about how it sad that someone could just throw together a windows application by dragging some buttons around and such. I tried to no avail to convince him that it did not 'reduce' programming to an unskilled chore, but rather, removed the unskilled the chore of writing the same old crappy Windows framework code over and over again. And of course it was, and this was my point from before, still necessary to actually write code to do anything useful.
Admittedly for your e-mail client example, yes, in Delphi it is about 2 lines of code to write a program to send an email.:) But it still 2 lines of code that someone has to write. (And a full e-mail program, with an inbox and such, maybe 100, heh).
Also, perhaps you should take a look at Delphi. It is a much better language and compiler than VB, IMHO, (and soon will be available for Linux!)
What hospital? I'm going to print up a card, attach it to a necklace and wear it at all times, instructing EMTs in case of emergency not to take me there, no matter what.
Apply to big companies that hire lots of new grads, try to train them, and if they succeed, keep them (if not, fuck 'em). Like Intel, Microsoft, and a lot of consulting firms, Anderson Consulting (forgot their new name), Software Architects, etc.
In addition, a lot of the big wireless/networking infrastructure companies hire a lot of new grads, Nortel, Alcatel, etc.
Visual Basic and other rapid prototyping apps have a place in the world. But will they ever replace line-by-line programming? Not likely.
Disclaimer: VB blows
The thing about rapid proto-typing tools is that these form designers and such don't actually do anything. To make a useful program, it still takes a lot of good engineering and code. (Hence why you so rarely see useful VB apps). So sure, you can throw together a database interface in an hour, but it's not a database. And there's nothing to stop you from writing a database in VB, just its rapid proto-typing abilities will not come in terribly useful.
At work I was translating some 'legacy' java code. This person just loved using StreamTokenizers to do the most elementary string operations, god forbid you use charAt().
I agree. The first "page and half" make it sound like there's no jobs. Then at the end, I was relieved to discover it was just overhyped web-monkeys who couldn't get jobs. Not that they deserved them in the first place.
If your looking for an FPS with some strategy, try Tribes (coincidentally, also published by Sierra). Some of the mods have gotten so complex, (e.g., Shifter) it's practically become an RTS.
I think that goes back to the whole 'garden of eden' thing. That's why we aren't immortal. Because then we'd be gods. We can't be both immortal and intelligent. Or something.
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The article says that the source is "Sans Tables".. in other words, it's useless. So what's the point? Isn't it the encryption keys that are actually the "trade secrets" in question?
Bwahahaha. Like I want or need a job writing Java of all things.
Anyways, in general, if you want to learn something specific, you will probably have to teach yourself. Your school probably has an "independent study" type class. If you can get a professor to sponsor you, you would then be able to clear space in your course load to do so without actually dropping below "full time".
What is even worse is that these are not necessarily C++ questions, but just general object-oriented principals.
A certain student organization I belong to has about 10 SGI's: Indy's and Indigo 2's. But we can't do anything with them because we don't have Irix. What SGI Linux distros are there that will work on these machines, and have a network install option?
And why is "nudity" (a relative term in and of itself) such a necessarily "bad" thing that people need to be shielded from it? How is it beneath anyone's "standards"?
Sounds like where I went to school.
I do fully agree with you, the reason I said 'Disclaimer: VB blows' was that I did not want to be seen as coming off as a VB advocate, I absolutely despise its language constructs and the efficiency of the code it generates (in particular string manipulation). I was intending to defend RAD tools in general, but the poster I replied to brought up VB, so I continued with that. I prefer Delphi :)
I showed some assclown the Delphi IDE once and he started complaining about how it sad that someone could just throw together a windows application by dragging some buttons around and such. I tried to no avail to convince him that it did not 'reduce' programming to an unskilled chore, but rather, removed the unskilled the chore of writing the same old crappy Windows framework code over and over again. And of course it was, and this was my point from before, still necessary to actually write code to do anything useful.
Admittedly for your e-mail client example, yes, in Delphi it is about 2 lines of code to write a program to send an email. :) But it still 2 lines of code that someone has to write. (And a full e-mail program, with an inbox and such, maybe 100, heh).
Also, perhaps you should take a look at Delphi. It is a much better language and compiler than VB, IMHO, (and soon will be available for Linux!)
You left out West Virginians.
What hospital? I'm going to print up a card, attach it to a necklace and wear it at all times, instructing EMTs in case of emergency not to take me there, no matter what.
Bah. I learned PHP in one night. What a loose fucking syntax that is. You can just do anything and it will work.
In addition, a lot of the big wireless/networking infrastructure companies hire a lot of new grads, Nortel, Alcatel, etc.
raise EYourNotAsSmartAsYouThink.Create('What language is this, Java boy?');
Try saying that with a Computer Engineering PhD specialized in Networks.
A lot of people have CTS or RSD which makes it painful to hold down shift while pressing another key. Don't be so quick to criticize.
Hurry up, apply to grad school.
Disclaimer: VB blows
The thing about rapid proto-typing tools is that these form designers and such don't actually do anything. To make a useful program, it still takes a lot of good engineering and code. (Hence why you so rarely see useful VB apps). So sure, you can throw together a database interface in an hour, but it's not a database. And there's nothing to stop you from writing a database in VB, just its rapid proto-typing abilities will not come in terribly useful.
I guess he works for you now.
That pretty much describes everyone and their mother around here.
I agree. The first "page and half" make it sound like there's no jobs. Then at the end, I was relieved to discover it was just overhyped web-monkeys who couldn't get jobs. Not that they deserved them in the first place.
Well, that's the question of the hour, now, isn't it?
Ultima VII. Excellent game, but run likes shit on today's hardware. So it is being re-written.
If your looking for an FPS with some strategy, try Tribes (coincidentally, also published by Sierra). Some of the mods have gotten so complex, (e.g., Shifter) it's practically become an RTS.
I think that goes back to the whole 'garden of eden' thing. That's why we aren't immortal. Because then we'd be gods. We can't be both immortal and intelligent. Or something.