Better not. The bar to actually make money with a game, even a simple game, is very high. Might disappoint the kid and rather drive it away from programming.
And for the record, LOGO is probably the language you want to use when showing kids what taking your class is about.
If you ask me...I'd say waste of time. As soon as a kid notices that LOGO isn't used anywhere it probably loses interest. Smells too much like 'work' just done for school and to satisfy a teacher.
And before kids learn to write with a pen the should learn how to press cuneiform into wet clay. An no matches or pocket lighter, please. Firestones have to be mastered first.
My first computer was an Atari 400 and my first programming language was its BASIC. Learning 6502 assembly language did much for my IT development, too. But I don't think starting in computing early Bronze Age is a feasible way now. Most people will disagree, but I would try to start with C++/Qt. Qt hides most of the ugly corners of C++ and allows easy graphical userinterfaces with a minimum amount of boring boilerplate code. Signal/Slots is as a concept very easy to understand. Drawing on windows is not more difficult than drawing dots and lines directly on screen as it was done with BASIC on an Atari or the C64.
Qt hat a fairly clean and well designed API and many good examples, which allow to learn a decent programming style.
...what kind of 'research' is this? IMHO quality of an slightly above average problem for some school homework.
Should not be too difficult to get the average/max power you can get from todays solar cells. The average usable area for solar cells on a cell phone is no secret either. I suppose when I google a bit I can easily find data about power consumption in cell phones. The rest is simply, let me exaggerate a bit, the application of the rule of proportion. To call this 'research'... ridiculous.
..but since I am not American, this is not really a failure on my part. But I am just wondering... where they somehow involved in the betamax case in 1984? Sensible ruling. Enough reason to get 'disbanded' in 1995.
Why? It is as simple as that: If he could profit from the change he would love it, else he would hate it. Most people seem to think he'd be able to somehow profit from the new techs.
In IT, the knowledgable ones never get promoted because...
In IT the knowledgeable ones sooner or later become freelancers. Better pay, more interesting tasks. And if the colleagues are assholes? Who cares? The contract won't be extended. And after a few weeks: Bye bye, assholes.
It really isn't surprising to me that some continue along their antisocial path. I think they are the ones that these type of articles are written about.
Yeah, written by those who where the other kind of kid. The ones who loved going outside, tried to belittle their more intelligent peers as 'nerds', bullied them to make their homeworks, stole their lunch money and now more or less complain that their old behaviour patterns do not work so good anymore.
"I don't care about your technology, just fix it" zombie.
At least it did not turn you into a 'You are an idiot and I know it better how to fix this problem, because I play with a toy steam engine at home' zombie.
Google is paying so much to be default search machine. And the first thing I do with a new FF installation is to remove it and replace it via 'Add To Search Bar 2.0' with DuckDuckgo and Dogpile. But hey, at least I am still using google. Indirectly.
I did. If I was wrong, sorry. But when it comes to copyright discussions it usually is sufficient to stop reading when a certain set of keywords appear.
Apple used to actually have human user interface engineers working on usability in a scientific way. They worked out the close-button away from the others was the least likely to cause accidental data loss.
I am always a bit skeptical when someone claims 'usability in a scientific way'. Apple and Microsoft have absolutely no interest in best usable software. Their primary interest is best sellable software. And this is not necessarily the same. Best sellable software focuses on new users, shallow learning curve, wow-effects. Advanced users already did buy the product. Ok, the product should not suck that much that they won't ever buy again, but in usability...erm sellability studies this group is secondary.
Because destructive operations (like close) should be kept separated from non-destructive ones (like maximise/minimise).
Says who? Your opinion. A valid one, but there are different ones, which also have some merit, e.g. to be able to access all controls when the windows are stacked in a way that one corner is always covered.
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Better not. The bar to actually make money with a game, even a simple game, is very high. Might disappoint the kid and rather drive it away from programming.
If you ask me...I'd say waste of time. As soon as a kid notices that LOGO isn't used anywhere it probably loses interest. Smells too much like 'work' just done for school and to satisfy a teacher.
And before kids learn to write with a pen the should learn how to press cuneiform into wet clay. An no matches or pocket lighter, please. Firestones have to be mastered first.
My first computer was an Atari 400 and my first programming language was its BASIC. Learning 6502 assembly language did much for my IT development, too. But I don't think starting in computing early Bronze Age is a feasible way now. Most people will disagree, but I would try to start with C++/Qt. Qt hides most of the ugly corners of C++ and allows easy graphical userinterfaces with a minimum amount of boring boilerplate code. Signal/Slots is as a concept very easy to understand. Drawing on windows is not more difficult than drawing dots and lines directly on screen as it was done with BASIC on an Atari or the C64.
Qt hat a fairly clean and well designed API and many good examples, which allow to learn a decent programming style.
...what kind of 'research' is this? IMHO quality of an slightly above average problem for some school homework.
Should not be too difficult to get the average/max power you can get from todays solar cells. The average usable area for solar cells on a cell phone is no secret either. I suppose when I google a bit I can easily find data about power consumption in cell phones. The rest is simply, let me exaggerate a bit, the application of the rule of proportion. To call this 'research'... ridiculous.
Just invent a folding solar cell panel. Usually stored in the phone, while charging unfolded to a size of at least 1m^2.
...in a bank. My answer to this:
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Why? It is as simple as that: If he could profit from the change he would love it, else he would hate it. Most people seem to think he'd be able to somehow profit from the new techs.
Constitution = opportunity laws.
Nope, he does not. You just expect him to speak faster, because at the beginning he says so.
In IT the knowledgeable ones sooner or later become freelancers. Better pay, more interesting tasks. And if the colleagues are assholes? Who cares? The contract won't be extended. And after a few weeks: Bye bye, assholes.
Yeah, written by those who where the other kind of kid. The ones who loved going outside, tried to belittle their more intelligent peers as 'nerds', bullied them to make their homeworks, stole their lunch money and now more or less complain that their old behaviour patterns do not work so good anymore.
In that case she is an idiot when she is unable to admit that she has no clue.
At least it did not turn you into a 'You are an idiot and I know it better how to fix this problem, because I play with a toy steam engine at home' zombie.
...the money for his dog food.
Who want to hear, what an IT manager (or any IT person) has to say? At least 75% know better anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect/. The rest does not care for the one or the other reason.
But dogpile uses google, bing, and some more.
I meant the American democracy.
Google is paying so much to be default search machine. And the first thing I do with a new FF installation is to remove it and replace it via 'Add To Search Bar 2.0' with DuckDuckgo and Dogpile. But hey, at least I am still using google. Indirectly.
A drunk loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. A policeman comes over and asks what he's doing.
"I'm looking for my keys" he says. "I lost them over there".
The policeman looks puzzled. "Then why are you looking for them all the way over here?"
"Because the light is so much better".
...is a danger for its democracy.... IMHO a too little thing to worry about anyways.
I did. If I was wrong, sorry. But when it comes to copyright discussions it usually is sufficient to stop reading when a certain set of keywords appear.
Either you are a MAFIAA shill, or an idiot. People who use the 'artists' argument are usually one of those.
I am always a bit skeptical when someone claims 'usability in a scientific way'. Apple and Microsoft have absolutely no interest in best usable software. Their primary interest is best sellable software. And this is not necessarily the same. Best sellable software focuses on new users, shallow learning curve, wow-effects. Advanced users already did buy the product. Ok, the product should not suck that much that they won't ever buy again, but in usability...erm sellability studies this group is secondary.
Says who? Your opinion. A valid one, but there are different ones, which also have some merit, e.g. to be able to access all controls when the windows are stacked in a way that one corner is always covered.