The COPE bill is about state intervention. The unintended consequences of net neutrality (while likely desirable) would have been far smaller than the effect of COPE by itself anyway.
Fear not, dear friends; the Senate has yet to approve anything of this sort. Bear in mind that the house voted in favor of building a wall between the US and Mexico, while the Senate went the opposite direction and wanted a guest worker program; their opinions as of late have not lined up well. If a final bill ever makes it out of congress it won't look anything like what the House passed (...or at least, I sincerely hope so).
Learning the nitty-gritty details of a language is absolutely necessary to program successfully in it. However, for an introductory CS course, the nitty-gritty details of a language shouldn't matter. In fact, teaching it in a language with as few details is possible is probably best. I learned to program in Scheme (no, I don't go to MIT) and I must say it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me; Python, used in conjunction with an IDE, would probably be just as good. Worrying about what needs to be included in your interface has nothing to do with OOP and everything to do with Java. The fact that I learned about everything conceptually long before I ever actually programmed anything has made me a much stronger coder than I would otherwise have been. And, if you must use Java (a ridiculously verbose caricature of a language IMHO...) definitely use an IDE. You will spend more time trying to get people to type the right sequence of commands than actually teaching anything about CS if you try to use javac to do everything.
There is a crazy ass network that it goes through. Don't be fooled by flat circuit diagrams; if you felt like displaying in 3D, it would be a mess. The PCB's that come out of fabs today have 8 layers most of the time, all of which are filled with connections from place to place. We just flatten everything to make it seem simpler, and avoid confusing ourselvles.
He didn't complain about anything... you added that part. He asked for advice. Were more people to do so, instead of relying on their overconfidence (like you) to get jobs done, maybe we wouldn't have computer instability be such an issue.
While Asians may not care if you're female or not, they do care if you're in a field which is percieved as job-oriented. You'll find asian girls in CS in many cases because of parental pressure forcing them away from other fields (say, things like anthropology) which they may be interested in but which don't lead to careers.
Uhhh... you may already know this, but a corporation is not legally defined as having no intellect. It it is the same to the US legal system as any person. In my opinion corporate personhood is ludicrous, but that's the current state of things.
No, it means real jokes are ignored, and any articles by people who may or may not agree with you that aren't in peer-reviewed journals are ignored as well. Dissenting opinions could be voiced.
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The COPE bill is about state intervention. The unintended consequences of net neutrality (while likely desirable) would have been far smaller than the effect of COPE by itself anyway.
Fear not, dear friends; the Senate has yet to approve anything of this sort. Bear in mind that the house voted in favor of building a wall between the US and Mexico, while the Senate went the opposite direction and wanted a guest worker program; their opinions as of late have not lined up well. If a final bill ever makes it out of congress it won't look anything like what the House passed (...or at least, I sincerely hope so).
Learning the nitty-gritty details of a language is absolutely necessary to program successfully in it. However, for an introductory CS course, the nitty-gritty details of a language shouldn't matter. In fact, teaching it in a language with as few details is possible is probably best. I learned to program in Scheme (no, I don't go to MIT) and I must say it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me; Python, used in conjunction with an IDE, would probably be just as good. Worrying about what needs to be included in your interface has nothing to do with OOP and everything to do with Java. The fact that I learned about everything conceptually long before I ever actually programmed anything has made me a much stronger coder than I would otherwise have been.
And, if you must use Java (a ridiculously verbose caricature of a language IMHO...) definitely use an IDE. You will spend more time trying to get people to type the right sequence of commands than actually teaching anything about CS if you try to use javac to do everything.
There is a crazy ass network that it goes through. Don't be fooled by flat circuit diagrams; if you felt like displaying in 3D, it would be a mess. The PCB's that come out of fabs today have 8 layers most of the time, all of which are filled with connections from place to place. We just flatten everything to make it seem simpler, and avoid confusing ourselvles.
Uhh... what? That's completely irrelevant. Mod this down.
He didn't complain about anything... you added that part. He asked for advice. Were more people to do so, instead of relying on their overconfidence (like you) to get jobs done, maybe we wouldn't have computer instability be such an issue.
While Asians may not care if you're female or not, they do care if you're in a field which is percieved as job-oriented. You'll find asian girls in CS in many cases because of parental pressure forcing them away from other fields (say, things like anthropology) which they may be interested in but which don't lead to careers.
Uhhh... you may already know this, but a corporation is not legally defined as having no intellect. It it is the same to the US legal system as any person. In my opinion corporate personhood is ludicrous, but that's the current state of things.
Not really, I hate Bush but I wouldn't bash him for this.
No, it means real jokes are ignored, and any articles by people who may or may not agree with you that aren't in peer-reviewed journals are ignored as well. Dissenting opinions could be voiced.