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Structure teh program

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-30 12:59

Dear /prog/, how do I learn to structure my shit properly?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-18 22:41

>>40
I must be retarded

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-27 5:58

I lose at coding ;_;

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-27 7:53

I LOST MY CONFIG

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-27 9:57

>>23
Truth

>>1
Read SICP, or become an hero

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-31 19:07

please tell me why I suck and how to fix it asap

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-31 20:46

>>45
Read SICP.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-10 15:53

>>46
As you wish.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-11 7:55

what do you want out of SICP?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-11 8:47

use python

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-14 8:41

>>48
The knowledge of how to write well-structured programs.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-20 13:29

Ok, so, seriously, how the fuck do I learn how to write a program properly?

I've been coding for years and I can usually accomplish what I need to but shit, I know I'm just not doing things properly.

In fact, I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right questions here.  But eh...

>The knowledge of how to write well-structured programs.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-20 13:32

>>51
code review, whether on the job or open source project.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 1:11

HTdP and SICP - all you need

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 3:14

>>52
Ok, I can see how that would help after studying a lot of code.

How about some free material on the web that you can read?  I see tutorials that are meant to introduce people to programming and specific languages, but I never find anything on the subject (how to code shit properly, I guess) that I am looking for help on.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 5:42

>>54
It's just fucking common sense:

-  Pick up code you haven't worked on for months and try to understand it.  Where you can't, you've just learned a lesson in what not to do.

- Learn to document.  If the documentation takes a shitload of explanation for a small bit of code, rewrite the damn code to make it easier to understand.

- Learn to abstract.  Write your code as if you're doing both a library and something that uses it.  The ease of use of your more general code will tell you if your abstraction is balls or not.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 15:51

>>55
ok those are good tips.

still is there any free writing on this subject at least?  or could you at least give me a better name for it so I know what to ask about or search for?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 16:17

>>56
FUCKING
READ
SICP
GOD DAMN

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 16:22

>>57
SICP's not free.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 16:42

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 16:49

>>59
http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Second/dp/0070004846

You could just check the price instead of giving links to pirated texts.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 17:19

>>60
what the hell purple cover

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 17:22

>>60
Pirated? Check the URI.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-22 17:22

lol'd at Norvig's and PG's reviews.

Name: not >>60 2008-09-22 17:44

>>62
yhbt

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 0:56

★★★★★ Have you read your SICP today?, July 7, 2008
By Xarn Cairnarvon "Xarn" - See all my reviews
This review is from: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) (Hardcover)
I read this book because it was assigned for a course in school and I feel that working through the book greatly increased my ability. Now that school's out I find myself wanting to conjure the spirits of the computer with my spells and asking people to `read SICP' in all kinds of conversation.
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Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 4:22

k, so, any serious help?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 4:27

>>64,62
If it isn't pirated, then why at that site it's free when you can buy it somewhere for MONEY huh?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 4:46

>>67
You're absolutely right. I shall contact Microsoft to have that site removed from the internet.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 5:12

>>65
I know for a fact that Xarn was given his copy of SICP for his 22nd birthday.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 6:24

>>69
You're fucking Xarn.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 6:29

>>66
ah I guess not.

but I just realized I have absolutely no idea how to code anything now.  fuck, gg.

Name: Randall M. 2008-09-23 6:34

Look,

stop posting actual content on /prawg/.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 8:52

>>70
There are two ways to intepret this sentence, and I'm not sure which is right,

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 10:45

>>73
There are four ways to interpret this sentence with respect to itself and it's reference, and I'm not sure which is right.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 10:48

>>74
there are 2^x ways to interpret this sentence with respect to itself and it's reference's references, and i'm not sure which is right.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 10:48

>>72
Look,

start posting actual humor on your wobsite.

Name: lol !8mQB/2odm6 2008-09-23 16:13

>>69
I got mine for Christmas.

Name: Anonymous 2008-10-19 7:28

dumbasses

Name: Matthew `Rimmis` Stallman 2008-10-19 11:23

>>72
Look, stop referring to posts as ``content''.

If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are ``content'', but using it as a noun to describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding. That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it treats the works themselves with disrespect.

Those who use this term are often the publishers that push for increased copyright power in the name of the authors (``creators'', as they say) of the works. The term ``content'' reveals what they really feel. (See Courtney Love's open letter to Steve Case (search for ``content provider'' in that page. Alas, Ms. Love is unaware that the term ``intellectual property'' is also misleading.)

However, as long as other people use the term ``content provider'', political dissidents can well call themselves ``malcontent providers''.

The term ``content management'' takes the prize for vacuity. Neither word has any specific meaning; ``content'' means ``some sort of information'', and ``management'' in this context means ``doing something with it''. So a ``content management system'' is a system for doing something to some sort of information. In most cases, that term really refers to a system for updating a website. For that, we recommend the term ``website revision system'' (WRS).

Name: Anonymous 2008-10-19 11:54

>>79
Back to your couch, RMS

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