Many students go to college with 0 programming experience, and end up failing dramatically in their first course. Do you think this "Lite" course will help students perform better in their first "real" college programming course?
C'mon, man. You have to spoof the MAC address if you connect to public Wifi. The prosecutor sees you dumping the laptop in the water, retrieves it, opens it, notices the MAC address label on the Wifi adapter is still intact (damned Thinkpads!), and you're busted. Even state-sponsored hackers get caught--you just can't arrest them. It's fantasy to think you can outplay the US government like this. Even Snowden got caught, and he tried really hard not to.
"As long as the professor isn't grading on syntax (i.e. use pseudo-code), I'm all for coding on paper..."
I somewhat agree with you, but if you had to constantly grade programs for 50 students for 16 weeks, and you don't bother to force them to adhere to a certain style, you might have to take stress leave before the end of the semester. No student takes you seriously until you deduct points---there is no way around this.
I teach at a community college, and all of my exams in programming class have been on paper, except one. Before this exam, I showed students on the overhead that I could see their desktops on my computer. I required them all to leave the IDE maximized (I use the VPL plugin in Moodle). One student did extensive browsing and copying from the net anyway, and I witnessed it. He dropped shortly thereafter, and I returned to paper-only exams forever.
The trick is to condition your students to writing on paper. If you don't, most will fail because going from hours of staring at a computer screen to writing on paper is very unsettling. So I give students a 5-10 minute written quiz every class meeting (twice weekly). It seems to work, and although almost every student fails some quizzes, the exam grades are pretty good, on average, compared to semesters when I didn't give daily quizzes. (Quizzes are weighted 10%, exams 50% (2 during term, 1 final), projects 40%.) Of course, this quadrupled the grading I normally do (50 students), but I think it is very rewarding for myself and the students.
I've used Linux for 17+ years and participated in forums and discussions, etc., and I first heard of this award more than 15 years ago. Seriously. And I'm just a teacher.
"No company is going to support the old stuff forever, not even Microsoft, nor should anyone expect them too."
He's not asking for support. If I sell you a TV and destroy it five years later, can I legitimately say I destroyed it because "I can't support the TV forever".
Beginners are usually told not to try Debian stable, for whatever reason. You tried 10. Did you try Debian? If not, install it. I've been using it (STABLE, not testing, not sid) for the past ten years and all I do is just get work done.
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People were so desperate to have a female CEO...
Please. Those old fools made a bad investment because of her looks. This should be obvious to most men.
So do you think exponentiation should be right- or left-associative? What should 2^4^2 compute to in Julia?
Many students go to college with 0 programming experience, and end up failing dramatically in their first course. Do you think this "Lite" course will help students perform better in their first "real" college programming course?
C'mon, man. You have to spoof the MAC address if you connect to public Wifi. The prosecutor sees you dumping the laptop in the water, retrieves it, opens it, notices the MAC address label on the Wifi adapter is still intact (damned Thinkpads!), and you're busted. Even state-sponsored hackers get caught--you just can't arrest them. It's fantasy to think you can outplay the US government like this. Even Snowden got caught, and he tried really hard not to.
Fuck that. I have a baby due in August. I'm not washing that shit.
Indian devs? Isn't the majority of the site essentially copied from elsewhere?
"As long as the professor isn't grading on syntax (i.e. use pseudo-code), I'm all for coding on paper..."
I somewhat agree with you, but if you had to constantly grade programs for 50 students for 16 weeks, and you don't bother to force them to adhere to a certain style, you might have to take stress leave before the end of the semester. No student takes you seriously until you deduct points---there is no way around this.
"Face it, most people use keyboards for writing these days, not pens & pencils. So why hasn't University caught up with that notion..."
Because exams require devices which are not networked. This requires capable staff and accommodating administrators, which rules out most schools.
Would you test a Civil Engineering student by asking him/her to build you a bridge?
Yes, but a properly scaled-down version. I agree with paper-only programming exams, but I have to criticize your imperfect analogy.
I teach at a community college, and all of my exams in programming class have been on paper, except one. Before this exam, I showed students on the overhead that I could see their desktops on my computer. I required them all to leave the IDE maximized (I use the VPL plugin in Moodle). One student did extensive browsing and copying from the net anyway, and I witnessed it. He dropped shortly thereafter, and I returned to paper-only exams forever.
The trick is to condition your students to writing on paper. If you don't, most will fail because going from hours of staring at a computer screen to writing on paper is very unsettling. So I give students a 5-10 minute written quiz every class meeting (twice weekly). It seems to work, and although almost every student fails some quizzes, the exam grades are pretty good, on average, compared to semesters when I didn't give daily quizzes. (Quizzes are weighted 10%, exams 50% (2 during term, 1 final), projects 40%.) Of course, this quadrupled the grading I normally do (50 students), but I think it is very rewarding for myself and the students.
I've used Linux for 17+ years and participated in forums and discussions, etc., and I first heard of this award more than 15 years ago. Seriously. And I'm just a teacher.
Will a security update shred the logs? I wonder how they're going to fix this.
The car was driving 38 in a max 35 mph zone. The car was speeding, so Uber is at fault.
Actually, Linux users are too busy getting work done to post on Slashdot or Reddit. Also, most of us have hot dates on Saturday nights.
https://taskwarrior.org/
I doubt anything better exists. It is CLI, but third party GUIs are listed on the web site.
Suggestion: Learn the CLI first. Then install the syncing server "Taskserver" once you gets used to its awesome power.
You only charge $75/hour??? Have some self-respect for the profession, man!
Failure to play well with multi-national corporations.
Now I understand why they call it "coding" instead of "programming". Might as well major in Liberal Arts-- the pay is the same.
"No company is going to support the old stuff forever, not even Microsoft, nor should anyone expect them too."
He's not asking for support. If I sell you a TV and destroy it five years later, can I legitimately say I destroyed it because "I can't support the TV forever".
Beginners are usually told not to try Debian stable, for whatever reason. You tried 10. Did you try Debian? If not, install it. I've been using it (STABLE, not testing, not sid) for the past ten years and all I do is just get work done.
Nope. Common usage is a motherfucker. You have to live with it. I know, I tried to fight it. I failed.
Or perhaps he was instructed to do this.
This is an indication of Obamacare's shortcomings. We should have Medicare for all, and end this nonsense now.
Slashdot article: New SWEET32 Crypto Attacks Speed Up Deprecation of 3DES, Blowfish
Bruce Schneier, the creator of Blowfish, long ago suggested people stop using it.
Sounds like a bad idea. I wonder which cloud provider wrote this directive?