I've been trying to get into programming for awhile, but I usually get nowhere. Had a lot of free time recently and I'd rather not spend it all at 4chan.
I'm pretty sure I've got the main concepts and basics down but I never practice, so I always end up forgetting or never really appreciating the stuff I read.
What are some basic programs you'd recommend for a beginner? If I had some set goals to practice my programming, maybe I could accomplish something.
>>46
You don't capitalise acronym codes unless specifically encouraged by the person in question - like GJS.
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Anonymous2008-02-18 17:24
read SICP
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pg2008-02-18 17:30
That's because you don't need three letters.
I've thought a lot over the last couple years about the problem of the number of letters. It's an old one, as old as forums [1], but I think smart people will have figured out by now that using two letters is the best solution.
In fact, I'd argue that three letters would work against you. Choosing only two letters is the simplest way to call me. Though simple solutions are better, they don't seem as impressive as complex ones. But that's exactly the point. This technique is successful because it gives you the beautiful simplicity that other people forgo by trying to have three letters.
Mathematicians call good work "beautiful," and so, either now or in the past, have scientists, engineers, musicians, architects, designers, writers, and painters. Is it just a coincidence that they used the word I use to describe my initials, or is there some overlap in what they meant? If there is an overlap, can we use one field's discoveries about beauty to help us discover more about myself?
I'm optimistic we can. We're not depending just on technical tricks. My core fans are mostly refugees from other sites that were overrun by trolls. They feel about me roughly the way they feel about god. So there are a lot of people working to keep my name beautiful.
[1] I mean forum in the general sense of a place to exchange views. The original Internet forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups.
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Anonymous2008-02-18 17:33
With each of these posts it seems more and more like pg is actually posting here.
BBCODE is a good first language especially if you want to make money.
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Anonymous2008-02-19 13:53
Do what worked for me... Dive head first into C++, keep on going through all the BS even though you're about ready to blow your brains out, then pick up and easier language such as C# and feel like it's second nature, only to go back to C++ later and find it easy as well.
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Anonymous2008-02-19 16:00
>>56
Define "worked". You're now a C++ expert or some shit.
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Anonymous2008-02-19 16:08
>>55
Totally, you wouldn't imagine just how much money I've made by being a BBCode consult.
I've worked for Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, many governments, etc.
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Anonymous2008-02-19 16:51
>>58
you could even say bbcode is totally enterprise put it up there with java, sepples and delphi
>>60
Wrong post, wrong thread, and I didn't use the tags I meant to.
I shouldn't /prog/ late at night.
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