E.g. KTurtle. It's fun and very approachable for little'uns who are interested in programming and/or art.
I remember endless frustration during my initial attempts to grasp more traditional languages--they generally depend on a great deal of prerequisite knowledge and experience which a beginner hasn't accumulated yet. In elementary school I was exposed to some variety of Turtle Graphics on an old Mac and made some fun, albeit simple, pictures. The visual feedback offered is a vastly more effective reenforcement than console output (for me at least). Event though it is (or can be) a very simple language, it includes staple concepts of most languages.
KTurtle has a nice reference guide included with it, so a student (or instructor instructing students) can absorb the language at their own pace.
Perhaps ambitious students would realize their potential and move up to a general purpose language. Maybe even C/C++ and OpenGL to further explore graphics!
The Phalanx system has never been credited with shooting down any enemy missiles or aircraft.
Also pertinent:
June 4, 1996, a Japanese Phalanx accidentally shot down a US A-6 Intruder. The US plane was towing a radar target during gunnery exercises. A Phalanx aboard the Asagiri class destroyer Ygiri locked onto the Intruder instead of the target. Both pilots ejected safely.
I'm not a py programmer at all, but seeing as numerous single-process dynamic web platforms exist (PHP, JSP/Servlets), whats w/ all the hype? Maybe ppl are just happy to be able to use python for web apps?
Don't know about the rest of the./ crowd, but i'm not one for driving. Just not a fan of trying to stay alive in fear of soccer moms driving 30,000lb SUV land yachts I guess... but really I was thinking the other day about driverless highways, and I guess there is actually some movements being made in that direction. read about it.
There's some cool shit in that link about maximizing efficiency by having cars drive only a few meters apart to minimize air resistance and the like. I'm all for it.
If what you're saying is true, please provide examples so that others may join your cause. Unsubstantiated rants only make your posts read like they were written by someone with a 8th grade angry-at-the-world attitude. Maybe you could build your own national infrastructure so that you could escape being a slave to the system like the rest of us.
But really, aren't we seeing decent price drops relatively frequently? You can get low-end DSL for around 20 Bucks where I'm from (midwestern US). I have TimeWarner Cable internet and get 8Mbps (downpipe) no sweat.
I think the real issue here is that the masses don't need a symmetric 100Mbps pipe and won't pay anything more than their cheap dialup ISP is charging for a service that will render them little benefit when all they do is check their email.
Big (read expansive) countries require big infrastructures which cost money, which is why me may pay more for superior services rendered for less in sweden or japan.
1. Navigate to www.engadget.com
2. Find cool story
3. Google text of that cool story (as to mask the location where that cool story was first discovered)
4. CTRL+A, CTRL+C
5. Create new slashdot post, CTRL+V
6. PROFIT
Anybody else seeing a lot of slashdot/engadget mirror posts?
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Agreed. That being said, PHP can be a very good primer language for newbie programmers. There's no graphics API to learn to be able to produce results, and it is extremely well documented. PHP is also a great way for noobs to get into MySQL and DB's as a whole.
I recommend "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.
AJAX is also good for intranet applications that need to access the companys database for example.
So true. I was charged with writing a seemingly simple call-center manager for smallish market research op, but like so many things, the powers that be liked it so much, they went wild with expansion ideas. Luckily I opted for a LAMP solution and implemented AJAX, thus upgrades meant only one time script modifications, not an upgrade to dozens of machines.
AJAX can really streamline some traditional tasks like user-authentication. Go out and build yourself an AJAX function (w/ callback functionality) and you'll find so many uses for it.
I'm all for lying beneath a wifi blanket wherever I go (who the hell wouldn't be?), but if the system were left in the hands of the gov't, what would be their motivation to explore future upgrades? Being able to set up your web connection sans wires any/everywhere would be quite impressive, but I can really see future infrastructure upgrades being overlooked in favor of other, more boneheaded projects. I'm not being a corporate puppet, I just want to make sure that all the kiddies will be able to download 20 torrents simultaneously whilst watching streamed eps of the tellatubbies, and I just hope that the municipalities can accommodate.
God you gotta love the irony of a security-centric corp losing data.. Looks like they should have used the money earned from their over-priced hardware to hire better web devs. Too bad they spent it on a 10 foot glass elephant that now graces their main office lobby but doesn't do a damn thing about stolen passwords.
I'd rather pay for less a company to provide content via Bittorrent
The answer given by the parent is what you might expect to hear from the media corps.
Look me in the eye and tell me without laughing that the Man isn't just going to use BitTorrent to lower their costs thus increasing their margins..
Remember children, these are the same people who contiued charging 13 dollars for an inexpensive donut shaped slice of polycarbonate and aluminum years after they promised a price drop.
M$ going open source? It could be news. You'd hear about it in the same broadcast that you hear "Gerald Ford dead today, after a fireball destroys France..."
Its ironic that the Trusted Computing web site uses such an untrusworthy httpd as apache:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:26:37 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
I guess that the TC folks cant even trust themselves!
Slashdot Mirror
E.g. KTurtle. It's fun and very approachable for little'uns who are interested in programming and/or art.
I remember endless frustration during my initial attempts to grasp more traditional languages--they generally depend on a great deal of prerequisite knowledge and experience which a beginner hasn't accumulated yet. In elementary school I was exposed to some variety of Turtle Graphics on an old Mac and made some fun, albeit simple, pictures. The visual feedback offered is a vastly more effective reenforcement than console output (for me at least). Event though it is (or can be) a very simple language, it includes staple concepts of most languages.
KTurtle has a nice reference guide included with it, so a student (or instructor instructing students) can absorb the language at their own pace.
Perhaps ambitious students would realize their potential and move up to a general purpose language. Maybe even C/C++ and OpenGL to further explore graphics!
One of the big drawbacks of the Phalanx is its complete lack of combat success: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS#Phalanx_in_combat.
From TF Wikipedia:
The Phalanx system has never been credited with shooting down any enemy missiles or aircraft.Also pertinent:
June 4, 1996, a Japanese Phalanx accidentally shot down a US A-6 Intruder. The US plane was towing a radar target during gunnery exercises. A Phalanx aboard the Asagiri class destroyer Ygiri locked onto the Intruder instead of the target. Both pilots ejected safely.I'm not a py programmer at all, but seeing as numerous single-process dynamic web platforms exist (PHP, JSP/Servlets), whats w/ all the hype? Maybe ppl are just happy to be able to use python for web apps?
-m
when they have it in 2 ply, 1000 sheet rolls that fit on my toilet paper spool, then maybe i'll be interested.
Don't know about the rest of the ./ crowd, but i'm not one for driving. Just not a fan of trying to stay alive in fear of soccer moms driving 30,000lb SUV land yachts I guess... but really I was thinking the other day about driverless highways, and I guess there is actually some movements being made in that direction. read about it.
There's some cool shit in that link about maximizing efficiency by having cars drive only a few meters apart to minimize air resistance and the like. I'm all for it.
Hi.
If what you're saying is true, please provide examples so that others may join your cause. Unsubstantiated rants only make your posts read like they were written by someone with a 8th grade angry-at-the-world attitude. Maybe you could build your own national infrastructure so that you could escape being a slave to the system like the rest of us.
But really, aren't we seeing decent price drops relatively frequently? You can get low-end DSL for around 20 Bucks where I'm from (midwestern US). I have TimeWarner Cable internet and get 8Mbps (downpipe) no sweat.
I think the real issue here is that the masses don't need a symmetric 100Mbps pipe and won't pay anything more than their cheap dialup ISP is charging for a service that will render them little benefit when all they do is check their email.
Big (read expansive) countries require big infrastructures which cost money, which is why me may pay more for superior services rendered for less in sweden or japan.
1. Navigate to www.engadget.com
2. Find cool story
3. Google text of that cool story (as to mask the location where that cool story was first discovered)
4. CTRL+A, CTRL+C
5. Create new slashdot post, CTRL+V
6. PROFIT
Anybody else seeing a lot of slashdot/engadget mirror posts?
Agreed. That being said, PHP can be a very good primer language for newbie programmers. There's no graphics API to learn to be able to produce results, and it is extremely well documented. PHP is also a great way for noobs to get into MySQL and DB's as a whole.
I recommend "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.
AJAX is also good for intranet applications that need to access the companys database for example.
So true. I was charged with writing a seemingly simple call-center manager for smallish market research op, but like so many things, the powers that be liked it so much, they went wild with expansion ideas. Luckily I opted for a LAMP solution and implemented AJAX, thus upgrades meant only one time script modifications, not an upgrade to dozens of machines.
AJAX can really streamline some traditional tasks like user-authentication. Go out and build yourself an AJAX function (w/ callback functionality) and you'll find so many uses for it.
I'm all for lying beneath a wifi blanket wherever I go (who the hell wouldn't be?), but if the system were left in the hands of the gov't, what would be their motivation to explore future upgrades? Being able to set up your web connection sans wires any/everywhere would be quite impressive, but I can really see future infrastructure upgrades being overlooked in favor of other, more boneheaded projects. I'm not being a corporate puppet, I just want to make sure that all the kiddies will be able to download 20 torrents simultaneously whilst watching streamed eps of the tellatubbies, and I just hope that the municipalities can accommodate.
Shout out to the my boys and girls at the U-Dub. I'm gonna go strap on my kevlar so i survive being shot down for off-topic.
Sometimes fancy schmancy modular access routers and self-defending networks just can't defend against an idiot at the helm... see here for details. -m
God you gotta love the irony of a security-centric corp losing data.. Looks like they should have used the money earned from their over-priced hardware to hire better web devs. Too bad they spent it on a 10 foot glass elephant that now graces their main office lobby but doesn't do a damn thing about stolen passwords.
I'd rather pay for less a company to provide content via Bittorrent
The answer given by the parent is what you might expect to hear from the media corps.
Look me in the eye and tell me without laughing that the Man isn't just going to use BitTorrent to lower their costs thus increasing their margins.. Remember children, these are the same people who contiued charging 13 dollars for an inexpensive donut shaped slice of polycarbonate and aluminum years after they promised a price drop.
-m
The industry must have BRAINS... must EAT, er HIRE BRAINS!!!
M$ going open source? It could be news. You'd hear about it in the same broadcast that you hear "Gerald Ford dead today, after a fireball destroys France..."
Its ironic that the Trusted Computing web site uses such an untrusworthy httpd as apache: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:26:37 GMT Server: Apache Location: https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 I guess that the TC folks cant even trust themselves!