Dinsdale says "mod this guy up!" He makes some very good points re: good/bad choices for teaching programming principles vs legacy/forward interactions.
There are a lot of places where scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Javascript) are appropriate and useful but they miss the mark for teaching a lot of programming methodology. Object languages (Java, C++) are better because they expose more of what as likely to be seen in the actual workplace but, for teaching core, base level, algorithm development and optimization a student should be exposed to at least 2, preferably 3 languages. One procedural like Pascal or Modula 2, one Object based like C++ or Java, and others as the need demands.
May as well require them to speak Esperanto too just to make sure nobody understands them.
I still work with Cobol geeks. It's actually in regular use. But I don't know of anybody who uses Fortran except for comp-sci departments. And if you're using it to teach programming practices you might as well teach said practices in a language they stand a chance of using.
Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing They don't care what goes on around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
Interesting... In the U.S. women are slightly over 51% of the general population. Not a minority by any stretch. However, nobody knows what the actual number is for the computer using population. It's expected to be considerably lower than 51% but - no reliable study has been performed.
Actually, women want the same thing from a laptop as we all want from our personal electronic devices of all kinds - really, really long battery life without sacrificing performance or appearance.
If you just want to code... even to the point that the thought of getting your hands on a really messed up algorithm makes your shorts tight... your bachelor level degree is sufficient.
If you want to teach or manage you should go for the masters.
If you're one of those really out there theoretical geeks who substitutes lab time for E there should be a Ph.D. in your academic plans.
Participants in the actual Special Olympics are ALL winners by virtue of the fact that they not only put their best foot forward EVERY DAY but they routinely outperform our expectations.
IE, on the other hand, seldom puts forward a best effort and routinely falls short of expectation for a company that touts itself a fervent supporter of published standards. When IE actually supports the standards it helped to establish it will score 100/100 on the Acid test.
You don't work at a place with a lot of MIT and Harvard grads, do you?
I remember the phrase "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!" coming out of the mouth of a Harvard grad. We're still witnessing the aftermath of that administrative debacle.
No complaints there, but it would be inconvenient if you're no longer allowed to return XML in response to a request. Even a large proportion of HTML documents are valid XML, so hypothetically you might have to include unclosed tags in your pages to be on the safe side.
Actually, this would apply to CGI, on-the-fly machine generated XML. Given the close relationship between XML and HTML I can see the possibility of less informed company lawyer types having a panic attack over something like this with respect to things like form landing pages, RSS feeds, and other generated pages on their web sites that do not fall into the SOAP category.
I'd like to see a chip that can run in a x86 'translated' mode and a 'native' RISC mode, much like was done with 32bit/64 bit.
Already ready to use. The Transmeta Crusoe processor does this on the fly. Of course, now they're owned (or is that pwned?) by Novafora so your guess is as good as mine whether this will survive.
Except most of the camera phones I've seen use the primary speaker to emit that sound so you would have to be willing to sacrifice any use of the speakerphone feature as well.
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You owe me a keyboard. This one just got filled with a mixture of coffee and snot.
And now that we've put the Y2K scare behind us we won't need new COBOL developers until the Unix clock rolls over on 19-Jan-2038.
Dinsdale says "mod this guy up!" He makes some very good points re: good/bad choices for teaching programming principles vs legacy/forward interactions.
There are a lot of places where scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Javascript) are appropriate and useful but they miss the mark for teaching a lot of programming methodology. Object languages (Java, C++) are better because they expose more of what as likely to be seen in the actual workplace but, for teaching core, base level, algorithm development and optimization a student should be exposed to at least 2, preferably 3 languages. One procedural like Pascal or Modula 2, one Object based like C++ or Java, and others as the need demands.
May as well require them to speak Esperanto too just to make sure nobody understands them.
I still work with Cobol geeks. It's actually in regular use. But I don't know of anybody who uses Fortran except for comp-sci departments. And if you're using it to teach programming practices you might as well teach said practices in a language they stand a chance of using.
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
Interesting... In the U.S. women are slightly over 51% of the general population. Not a minority by any stretch. However, nobody knows what the actual number is for the computer using population. It's expected to be considerably lower than 51% but - no reliable study has been performed.
Actually, women want the same thing from a laptop as we all want from our personal electronic devices of all kinds - really, really long battery life without sacrificing performance or appearance.
Makes a great desktop paperweight for any area prone to the occasional hurricane.
He has a special set of exercises with which he has already built up his arm.
If you just want to code... even to the point that the thought of getting your hands on a really messed up algorithm makes your shorts tight... your bachelor level degree is sufficient.
If you want to teach or manage you should go for the masters.
If you're one of those really out there theoretical geeks who substitutes lab time for E there should be a Ph.D. in your academic plans.
Irony: SCO blew up and left a huge caldera.
Instead, FC got the business... so to speak.
Liquify their chief officers? Remember folks... "Soylent Green is people!"
Actually, I'd call it the Un-Special Olympics.
Participants in the actual Special Olympics are ALL winners by virtue of the fact that they not only put their best foot forward EVERY DAY but they routinely outperform our expectations.
IE, on the other hand, seldom puts forward a best effort and routinely falls short of expectation for a company that touts itself a fervent supporter of published standards. When IE actually supports the standards it helped to establish it will score 100/100 on the Acid test.
I'm confused. Should I be thankful for or afraid of these cow orkers?
All that really matters is that life is freaking AWESOME. Seriously.
Beats the heck out of the known alternatives anyway.
Bacteria? Really? I believe the word you're looking for is midi-chlorians.
Of course, now, everybody is thinking... "What were you doing in his pants?
Congratulations! You are the proud parent of a future engineer in the most classic and useful sense of the word.
You don't work at a place with a lot of MIT and Harvard grads, do you?
I remember the phrase "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!" coming out of the mouth of a Harvard grad. We're still witnessing the aftermath of that administrative debacle.
Age and wisdom vs. youth and treachery - I will put my money on the old guy for the win.
I thought it was "Age and treachery vs youth and speed"
You are correct.
"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
I saw him! He went THAT way, through the sex shop!
No complaints there, but it would be inconvenient if you're no longer allowed to return XML in response to a request. Even a large proportion of HTML documents are valid XML, so hypothetically you might have to include unclosed tags in your pages to be on the safe side.
Actually, this would apply to CGI, on-the-fly machine generated XML. Given the close relationship between XML and HTML I can see the possibility of less informed company lawyer types having a panic attack over something like this with respect to things like form landing pages, RSS feeds, and other generated pages on their web sites that do not fall into the SOAP category.
I'd like to see a chip that can run in a x86 'translated' mode and a 'native' RISC mode, much like was done with 32bit/64 bit.
Already ready to use. The Transmeta Crusoe processor does this on the fly. Of course, now they're owned (or is that pwned?) by Novafora so your guess is as good as mine whether this will survive.
Except most of the camera phones I've seen use the primary speaker to emit that sound so you would have to be willing to sacrifice any use of the speakerphone feature as well.