I assume everyone has a favorite arcade game from their childhood. I was wondering which games people have picked up recently and still, enjoyed playing (pong just isn't as fun as I remembered years ago).
Recently, I have been playing Cleopatra Fortune and Guwange... legally of course...
As she has figured out "Solitare" I will assume that she is using a Windows system. If she wishes to learn a simple programming language, I would suggest Visual Basic. You can make it as simple as you want, just a simple window with a couple buttons that change the color of thing, or you can (with a little work) do more complicated things.
VB isn't the most efficient language, but it is good for beginners. It gives them something pretty to look at instead of text (text discourages many people starting to program, if I remember right the biggest complaint in the freshman CS classes at my school was how boring the text stuff was).
If you do choose to go the VB route. You could get the full version of Visual Studio, or you could go for a student version. But if I remember correctly from my days of playing with VB back in high school, some VB books have a learner's copy of VB in a CD included with the book. You won't be able to compile standalone programs, but it is still nice not to pay $1k for something to play with.
Recently OU has been trying to implement all sorts of technology for the students. Every dorm room is equiped with a pretty new computer (one third of them are replaced every year with brand new ones).
It is true that there have not yet been lawsuits against OU students over copyright infingement by the RIAA.
I personally am not sure how well this new Napster thing will even catch on at OU. A student has set up an Direct Connect hub on campus, that checks ip addresses and only allows OU students. When I download from users on this hub, I will usually get upwards of 1000k/s in my download speed and there is usualy not any lack of variety in the music.
I could see how the new Napster would catch on at other schools, where the main mode of piracy is Kazaa, Imesh, or Bittorrent. But I have a feeling it just will not do to well at OU.
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Recently, I have been playing Cleopatra Fortune and Guwange... legally of course...
VB isn't the most efficient language, but it is good for beginners. It gives them something pretty to look at instead of text (text discourages many people starting to program, if I remember right the biggest complaint in the freshman CS classes at my school was how boring the text stuff was).
If you do choose to go the VB route. You could get the full version of Visual Studio, or you could go for a student version. But if I remember correctly from my days of playing with VB back in high school, some VB books have a learner's copy of VB in a CD included with the book. You won't be able to compile standalone programs, but it is still nice not to pay $1k for something to play with.
It is true that there have not yet been lawsuits against OU students over copyright infingement by the RIAA.
I personally am not sure how well this new Napster thing will even catch on at OU. A student has set up an Direct Connect hub on campus, that checks ip addresses and only allows OU students. When I download from users on this hub, I will usually get upwards of 1000k/s in my download speed and there is usualy not any lack of variety in the music.
I could see how the new Napster would catch on at other schools, where the main mode of piracy is Kazaa, Imesh, or Bittorrent. But I have a feeling it just will not do to well at OU.
I kinda agree, there really haven't been any really origional bands in the past several years worth putting $13 down for a couple songs.
I say let 'em try. I am always up for a challenge.