Parent's post is a total waste of human creativity. English would have been so much better.
This post is nothing more than caps, 2 mispellings, and, wait for it, an advanced emoticon made of two punction marks! <chuckle>
I guess this post will have a warning sticker in the United States reading "Do not attempt to emulate this grammar. Doing so may cause a severe decrease in intelligence."
for the first time oneself could really know what another person thinks.
true.. but that better be reserved for times when it is ABSOLUTELY neccessary to do so (see government investigations), unless you sincerely trust the person. The second you know what someone is really thinking is the second you don't want to know anymore about them.
of course, if filtering exists (to hide certain unmentionable thoughts), then this could increase human productivity hundred-fold. So much more progress was made when computers were networked, so why not for humans as well?
If you compare a man to a monkey today, you see cognitive differences (granted, some similarities too) that tend to seperate these two related species. When a monkey attempts to open a locked box, he will try many times to pry the box open, bash at it with his fists, and the like. A man, however, quickly realizes the box is locked and uses a tool to break the lock. While the monkey's strategy is simple, and will _eventually_ get the box open, the man's strategy is more complex, but much more efficient.
Same goes with programming. If you have to search through a massive sorted database, no skilled programmer alive would use a linear traversal (simple, yet inneficient), they would use a binary search (more complex, yet far more efficient).
So when customers pay for you to get that locked box open, who's strategy will you choose?
Well unfortunately, Big Oh notation is what gets you places in this world. Sure, you can write a simple sorting algorithm (bubble sort, anyone) that'll work, but it'll make your program, database, or whatever you're running slow.
See, it's the knowledge of when to use a tree, heap, linked list, arraylist, hashmap, and other such implememnts of destruction and how to operate such tools efficiently that will get you a job.
Sure, in Java, you could circumevent all sorting routines by using: list = new ArrayList(new SortedList(list));
but that doesnt teach you squat. Now go learn you some Big-Oh!
I took the test yesterday, and with a 102.5 degree fever, no less. It was all and all a basic generalized java-oriented test. The AB exam had some more complex questions, mainly tracing some recursive methods, but the thing that really made me laugh about the test was that in the forbidden multiple-choice questions, 2 of them had invalid method headers! I looked them over and over and over again to make sure my fever was screwing around with me, but lo and behold, those 2 unnamed questions did in fact have illegal method headers... you think that all the hype built around this test would have made them, you know, proofread the thing?
Personally, even if I had the approx. 3000 dollars for an HDTV and service, is it worth it to watch TV in high definition on about 6 channels.
I find it wasteful that people would pay that exorbitant amount of money to see Janet Jackson flash her... (runs off to go get HDTV)
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The "Google Desktop Search" you speak of is a small app that allowed you to google the web without opening your browser.
Of course it just opened a small IE window above the deskbar to view the results. Ate unnessecary memory.
Parent's post is a total waste of human creativity. English would have been so much better.
This post is nothing more than caps, 2 mispellings, and, wait for it, an advanced emoticon made of two punction marks! <chuckle>
I guess this post will have a warning sticker in the United States reading "Do not attempt to emulate this grammar. Doing so may cause a severe decrease in intelligence."
for the first time oneself could really know what another person thinks.
true.. but that better be reserved for times when it is ABSOLUTELY neccessary to do so (see government investigations), unless you sincerely trust the person. The second you know what someone is really thinking is the second you don't want to know anymore about them.
of course, if filtering exists (to hide certain unmentionable thoughts), then this could increase human productivity hundred-fold. So much more progress was made when computers were networked, so why not for humans as well?
If you compare a man to a monkey today, you see cognitive differences (granted, some similarities too) that tend to seperate these two related species. When a monkey attempts to open a locked box, he will try many times to pry the box open, bash at it with his fists, and the like. A man, however, quickly realizes the box is locked and uses a tool to break the lock. While the monkey's strategy is simple, and will _eventually_ get the box open, the man's strategy is more complex, but much more efficient.
Same goes with programming. If you have to search through a massive sorted database, no skilled programmer alive would use a linear traversal (simple, yet inneficient), they would use a binary search (more complex, yet far more efficient).
So when customers pay for you to get that locked box open, who's strategy will you choose?
with no return type defined and the 'constructor' written as follows:
Hey, why are there some CollegeBoard helicopters flying in... *muffled scream*
Well unfortunately, Big Oh notation is what gets you places in this world. Sure, you can write a simple sorting algorithm (bubble sort, anyone) that'll work, but it'll make your program, database, or whatever you're running slow.
See, it's the knowledge of when to use a tree, heap, linked list, arraylist, hashmap, and other such implememnts of destruction and how to operate such tools efficiently that will get you a job.
Sure, in Java, you could circumevent all sorting routines by using:
list = new ArrayList(new SortedList(list));
but that doesnt teach you squat. Now go learn you some Big-Oh!
I took the test yesterday, and with a 102.5 degree fever, no less. It was all and all a basic generalized java-oriented test. The AB exam had some more complex questions, mainly tracing some recursive methods, but the thing that really made me laugh about the test was that in the forbidden multiple-choice questions, 2 of them had invalid method headers! I looked them over and over and over again to make sure my fever was screwing around with me, but lo and behold, those 2 unnamed questions did in fact have illegal method headers... you think that all the hype built around this test would have made them, you know, proofread the thing?
Personally, even if I had the approx. 3000 dollars for an HDTV and service, is it worth it to watch TV in high definition on about 6 channels. I find it wasteful that people would pay that exorbitant amount of money to see Janet Jackson flash her... (runs off to go get HDTV)