I think this is a great idea. My only question is what if the business is already on google maps, or some google referral representative already beat you to the store? Do you not get any money?
i am currently teaching a summer course called 'programming and robotics'. its designed for highschool kids who are interested in both sections. from personal experience, the kids enjoy a lot of the programming, however u really see their interests spark when the robotics kits comes out. its a great because it makes them more interested in programming and also gives them something more concrete to put into their hands, which is very important.
It simply depends on what you are doing. If your talking about whipping up a quick app on your pc that isnt very CPU intensive, then why not use an interpreted language of some sort? save yourself the headache.
but at the same time, if your writing code that handles a massive database or a butload of connections every minute, then every bit of performance matters and your probably going to want to get down and dirty w/ C code.
it also depends on what interpreted language we are talking about. From what i have seen, Java under the right conditions can perform just about as fast as any C++ code, but if your talking about python (as much as i love python) you can kiss any real performance goodbye.
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in the end, never will be a blanket programming language for every application. When designing your application, take a look at what your domain is and from there find out which language best fits your needs. It really is as simple as that.
I work for a fairly predominate northeastern college that has a good Computer Science Department. Over the past year, we did a bit of research on this subject using our CS1-CS3 classes which were taught in Java.
Nobody in the department liked the idea of teaching kids Java straight from the beginning from an IDE. so instead, we decided CS1 would be kept the same (emacs, vi, basic no-frills editors) for all classes. Then, we decided we would teach two seperate classes CS2 and CS3 using the Eclipse IDE.
The results were stunning. Not only did the students using the IDE write better, cleaner code, but they also enjoyed coding much more. After realizing the painfullness of writing it all out in a terminal-based program, Eclipse recieved a warm welcome from both the students and the faculty. We will be doing the test over again next year with a larger experimental section (maybe 50/50).
So as for your answer to whether or not to use an IDE? I would say the answer is yes to both. I think its important for students to learn how to use a unix terminal, compile code "the long way" and get down and dirty with a no-frills editor. But using an IDE just makes life simpler sometimes (especially in our case), so why not use it. I think that the solution is to do both, and students will be more productive and have a broader range of knowledge.
p.s. sorry for any spelling, im too lazy to use OO.o:-P
yes, i do think that they are. In my area at least Time Warner cable offers an All-In-One (cable, internet, voip) for a cost that is much lower than paying the telco company. Even if this isnt an option for you in an area where you are, i could imagine that you can at least get Cable broadband internet, and in turn use a 3rd party VOIP provider such as Vonage. Not only will you be boycotting the major telco companies, you will probably end up saving yourself a few bucks too!
Our system of government is founded on the basis of checks and balances. Each branch of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) all have ways to balance out the other branches.
This motion to dismiss the case goes against the very idea of having checks and balances, and if anything the motion itself is unconstitutional. I hope we (the American public) do not allow for this to occur. I hope this issue continues to gain media coverage, because it has the makings to be a very hot political issue. Something needs to be done to make sure this case gets heard.
One idea i have is to simply boycott of AT&T, Verizon, and Bellsouth. Corporations need to understand that they cannot sell out their customers, either to nasty spammers of the US government, without serious repercussions. Someone needs to picks up this idea and runs with it, because it will send the message home. Convince people to switch to other telco companies that did not participate in this such as Quest, or better get make the move to encrypted VOIP.
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Can anybody say boycott?!
This sounds like a job for the boy scouts to me!
Well I can tell ya #2 is true... I recently turned down a big offer from Microsoft, I just couldn't sell my soul. And I dont think im the only one :-)
i am currently teaching a summer course called 'programming and robotics'. its designed for highschool kids who are interested in both sections. from personal experience, the kids enjoy a lot of the programming, however u really see their interests spark when the robotics kits comes out. its a great because it makes them more interested in programming and also gives them something more concrete to put into their hands, which is very important.
but at the same time, if your writing code that handles a massive database or a butload of connections every minute, then every bit of performance matters and your probably going to want to get down and dirty w/ C code.
it also depends on what interpreted language we are talking about. From what i have seen, Java under the right conditions can perform just about as fast as any C++ code, but if your talking about python (as much as i love python) you can kiss any real performance goodbye.
: in the end, never will be a blanket programming language for every application. When designing your application, take a look at what your domain is and from there find out which language best fits your needs. It really is as simple as that.
Nobody in the department liked the idea of teaching kids Java straight from the beginning from an IDE. so instead, we decided CS1 would be kept the same (emacs, vi, basic no-frills editors) for all classes. Then, we decided we would teach two seperate classes CS2 and CS3 using the Eclipse IDE.
The results were stunning. Not only did the students using the IDE write better, cleaner code, but they also enjoyed coding much more. After realizing the painfullness of writing it all out in a terminal-based program, Eclipse recieved a warm welcome from both the students and the faculty. We will be doing the test over again next year with a larger experimental section (maybe 50/50).
So as for your answer to whether or not to use an IDE? I would say the answer is yes to both. I think its important for students to learn how to use a unix terminal, compile code "the long way" and get down and dirty with a no-frills editor. But using an IDE just makes life simpler sometimes (especially in our case), so why not use it. I think that the solution is to do both, and students will be more productive and have a broader range of knowledge.
p.s. sorry for any spelling, im too lazy to use OO.o :-P
yes, i do think that they are. In my area at least Time Warner cable offers an All-In-One (cable, internet, voip) for a cost that is much lower than paying the telco company. Even if this isnt an option for you in an area where you are, i could imagine that you can at least get Cable broadband internet, and in turn use a 3rd party VOIP provider such as Vonage. Not only will you be boycotting the major telco companies, you will probably end up saving yourself a few bucks too!
This motion to dismiss the case goes against the very idea of having checks and balances, and if anything the motion itself is unconstitutional. I hope we (the American public) do not allow for this to occur. I hope this issue continues to gain media coverage, because it has the makings to be a very hot political issue. Something needs to be done to make sure this case gets heard.
One idea i have is to simply boycott of AT&T, Verizon, and Bellsouth. Corporations need to understand that they cannot sell out their customers, either to nasty spammers of the US government, without serious repercussions. Someone needs to picks up this idea and runs with it, because it will send the message home. Convince people to switch to other telco companies that did not participate in this such as Quest, or better get make the move to encrypted VOIP.