Hi. Teenager here. I learnt how to program when I was about 11 (or maybe 10), self-taught. My best recommendation: let him learn how to program by himself. What I did was, and I've done such a thing for all programming languages (8, I think) I know: first, go to the first tutorial you see on the Internet. I believe I used Wikibooks (Python). And, then, leave the tutorial after knowing just the basic I/O and simple statements. Then, give yourself a project. For example, I created one which solved me the maths homework. Something you find useful. And, while doing that, one must learn more features of the language. In case you have doubts, be self-sufficient: just f*cking google it, and results will appear (learning how to google is probably a priority before programming languages!).
So, what you said is true. Don't spend money on programming books. Let him learn by himself.
On the other hand, regarding programming languages, I've always loved Python. Simple syntax, easy to introduce to new programmers, no pointers, great power... Furthermore, while Python keeps being my favorite, maybe, for "the current times", he would find JavaScript (+HTML+CSS) closer, for he would be able to create his own websites and that's something you often feel proud of;). Also, it seems now everything has to be JavaScript-based...
No they're not. It is just the classic Google Maps "get directions" feature, but with realtime traffic estimates. Suppose your comment was just a way to bash Google.
3.3 is odd (thus unstable?); does anyone recommend actually installing it (in my case, Ubuntu)? Are there considerable advantages versus its drawbacks/unstability? Thanks.
- when you hash a telephone number, a rainbowtable is easily generated
That's where salts are useful. When you MD5 or SHA1, add a random-but-constant string at the beginning of the to-be-hashed string. Rainbow tables will be far mor difficult, if not impossible. Instead of MD5'ing "slashdot", MD5 "f8ds9a03421314159_$!1337_jc0wikislashdot".
Slashdot, it must be said, continues to be a great source of insightful comments (a thing which is becoming extinct on the Internet lately). I think it can be put down to its great moderation system others lack, and the audience (you know, when we speak we usually know about the topic). It has grown in popularity and thus in spamming, but, again, it's filtered out. Congrats to the Slashdot team and community for making this happen. In fact, recently I read Slashdot basically for its comments. They give so much additional information/jokes/etc. to the original stories.
But, you know, we have been making all that progress in HTML5 and CSS3, to avoid Flash and proprietary options, to end up having more of the same? No, thanks! The manner of interaction should be W3C's responsibility, in an open way, and open to open suggestions.
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It's open source! You either: a) send them a bug report, or b) download it, and change the code to whatever you want.
Slashdot links have rel="nofollow", so I don't think doing this helps much.
And implement the Hyper Text Coffe Pot Control Protocol and not a closed standard. Huh, who said that was an April 1st joke?
Hi. Teenager here. I learnt how to program when I was about 11 (or maybe 10), self-taught. My best recommendation: let him learn how to program by himself. What I did was, and I've done such a thing for all programming languages (8, I think) I know: first, go to the first tutorial you see on the Internet. I believe I used Wikibooks (Python). And, then, leave the tutorial after knowing just the basic I/O and simple statements. Then, give yourself a project. For example, I created one which solved me the maths homework. Something you find useful. And, while doing that, one must learn more features of the language. In case you have doubts, be self-sufficient: just f*cking google it, and results will appear (learning how to google is probably a priority before programming languages!).
So, what you said is true. Don't spend money on programming books. Let him learn by himself.
On the other hand, regarding programming languages, I've always loved Python. Simple syntax, easy to introduce to new programmers, no pointers, great power... Furthermore, while Python keeps being my favorite, maybe, for "the current times", he would find JavaScript (+HTML+CSS) closer, for he would be able to create his own websites and that's something you often feel proud of ;). Also, it seems now everything has to be JavaScript-based...
Simple maths: 1000000000 / 800 = 1 250 000 USD per patent. Pretty amazing.
Frist April Fool's Day without CmdrTaco, maybe?
No they're not. It is just the classic Google Maps "get directions" feature, but with realtime traffic estimates. Suppose your comment was just a way to bash Google.
Seriously? It should be from the dark-power dept.
The figures should be updated!
My fault, the version numbering system changed since 2.6.x (wikipedia before you post!). Anyway, I think the question is still valid.
3.3 is odd (thus unstable?); does anyone recommend actually installing it (in my case, Ubuntu)? Are there considerable advantages versus its drawbacks/unstability? Thanks.
- when you hash a telephone number, a rainbowtable is easily generated
That's where salts are useful. When you MD5 or SHA1, add a random-but-constant string at the beginning of the to-be-hashed string. Rainbow tables will be far mor difficult, if not impossible. Instead of MD5'ing "slashdot", MD5 "f8ds9a03421314159_$!1337_jc0wikislashdot".
Maybe the fact stories do not have like or dislike buttons so that people can say "314 people like Microsoft" or "21 people work for Apple"?
Comments mentioning comments mentioning comments mentioning moderation are generally modded up. It's the law!
Do people generally get past the title?
Comments mentioning moderation usually get modded down (oh no I'm speaking about moderation!)
Slashdot, it must be said, continues to be a great source of insightful comments (a thing which is becoming extinct on the Internet lately). I think it can be put down to its great moderation system others lack, and the audience (you know, when we speak we usually know about the topic). It has grown in popularity and thus in spamming, but, again, it's filtered out. Congrats to the Slashdot team and community for making this happen. In fact, recently I read Slashdot basically for its comments. They give so much additional information/jokes/etc. to the original stories.
Or people imagining dupes or spelling mistakes in the Washington Post :)
I add to my CV "I can eat donuts"?
If I'm not French, and I'm just visiting the country?
But, you know, we have been making all that progress in HTML5 and CSS3, to avoid Flash and proprietary options, to end up having more of the same? No, thanks! The manner of interaction should be W3C's responsibility, in an open way, and open to open suggestions.
Slashdot, you did it again! You're grounded!
Beaten by Chrome and Firefox.
Hmm it would be good if one got something like 0.00...0 and the other .1..111., because they would end up having the same data :)
OpenOffice.org is in version 3.3.0 and remarkably worse than LibreOffice. LibreOffice has way more future.