What you need, my friend, is a theremin dressed up as a ghost. Just drape a white sheet over the whole thing (including the two antennae), stick a glow-in-the-dark skull on top of of the vertical antenna, and put a dish of candy near it. (The horizontal antenna will look like a hand pointing when the sheet is draped over it, so you might want to put the dish of candy there.) Also, it looks especially cool if you put a strobe light underneath the sheet (sitting on top of the theremin body).
I did this with my theremin last year. When little kids approach it, of course, it will start wailing and screaming like a banshee. My 6- and 8-year old nieces loved it and it scared the heck out of my 4-year old nephew.
Well, no, you can't actually. This is because you'll be required to implement a particular method within a particular class. That being said, all the code within that method can be in C (modulo those picky little C things that won't compile in C++ mentioned in other postings).
What I used to do was to just force myself to drop whatever I was doing on the dot at 5:00 PM and go down to the company gym and exercise. This system worked pretty well for me. The point was to just get up and drop what I was doing at 5:00 even though it might take only a minute to finish up. This system also depended on the fact that we had a nice gym in our company building. After I was done, I could always return to my desk and finish up anything, if necessary.
Could day-care be a possible cause? I don't know for certain, but it seems that the number of infants in day-care has probably increased by about the same amount as the increase in autism. Perhaps dropping off an infant with a genetic predisposition towards autism off at a day-care center every day is enough to push him over the edge.
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This sounds like not such a bad idea. Has anybody patented it yet?
What you need, my friend, is a theremin dressed up as a ghost. Just drape a white sheet over the whole thing (including the two antennae), stick a glow-in-the-dark skull on top of of the vertical antenna, and put a dish of candy near it. (The horizontal antenna will look like a hand pointing when the sheet is draped over it, so you might want to put the dish of candy there.) Also, it looks especially cool if you put a strobe light underneath the sheet (sitting on top of the theremin body).
I did this with my theremin last year. When little kids approach it, of course, it will start wailing and screaming like a banshee. My 6- and 8-year old nieces loved it and it scared the heck out of my 4-year old nephew.
So, basically, you didn't do very well, right?
They have examples here: Sample Problem Statements
Well, no, you can't actually. This is because you'll be required to implement a particular method within a particular class. That being said, all the code within that method can be in C (modulo those picky little C things that won't compile in C++ mentioned in other postings).
What I used to do was to just force myself to drop whatever I was doing on the dot at 5:00 PM and go down to the company gym and exercise. This system worked pretty well for me. The point was to just get up and drop what I was doing at 5:00 even though it might take only a minute to finish up. This system also depended on the fact that we had a nice gym in our company building. After I was done, I could always return to my desk and finish up anything, if necessary.
I definitely agree that They Might Be Giants is underappreciated. In a similar vein, I nominate Young Sherlock Holmes.
I especially liked this part of the story:
'"We never comment on rumors and speculation," a Microsoft spokeswoman said.'
No, they only start them.
Could day-care be a possible cause? I don't know for certain, but it seems that the number of infants in day-care has probably increased by about the same amount as the increase in autism. Perhaps dropping off an infant with a genetic predisposition towards autism off at a day-care center every day is enough to push him over the edge.