This crap should be easy for anyone good at Java. Too bad I fucking suck at programming in general. Help me out and I will reward you in any way possible.
>>1
I've contacted Patterson and linked him to this thread, warning him that one of his students has requested external help disallowed by your school's policy.
You sir have brought shame to the once great U of North Carolina Wilmington. Why, if the great Wilmongton were still alive, he would be rolling in his grave.
Seriously, it's students like you who are driving the software development industry into ground.
I'll do it, but only on noncancerous languages, like C.
In all seriousness, the exercise is utterly trivial. However, I'd worry about the whole thing - I mean, using Java, the cyan background, the JPEG images...
If I was teaching that course, students would be required to build the compiler themselves or, as an alternative, hax my anus.
>>13
Well, to be fair, writing GUI applications are much more difficult then writing theoretical, albeit useless, meta interpreters. In Java Swing, you need to take care of event handling, window property settings, setting the window title, handling keyboard input, populating data in combo boxes, etc etc...
I would say that both exercises are actually about the same in terms of difficulty.
I write my GUIs functionally by expressing the color of every pixel as a function of all the program's state. Of course, the rest of the program is written imperatively.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 2:26
>>18
Well, to be fair, writing Malbolge applications are much more difficult then writing theoretical, albeit useless, meta interpreters, too.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 3:16
What some people don't realize is that enterprise programming is just as hard and complex as your fancy pants meta jiggawatts circle compiler, which by the way is pure ivory tower academic rubbish.
We on the other hand are actually dealing with real world data, I'm talking millions of simulataneous clients accessing my application. We take care of transaction management, mission critical applications, scalability, fault-tolerance, etc etc. In otherwords, we're the real men in the Computer Science industry. You fags are like little kids, playing in your toy sandbox up in your ivory tower, creating programs for your own, selfish amusement. It really is quite despicable, I must say.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 4:08
>>22 Computer Science industry
There's no such thing.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 4:09
>>22 It really is quite despicable, I must say.
How hypocritical. Your enterprise wouldn't exist without that "Ivory Tower", you know?
Define MISSION CRITIAL. Most of the times some IT faggot spouts that bullshit it's, in fact, not mission critical at all.
Proper examples of mission critical include stuff like aerospace and nuclear controllers. What you mention, stupid unimportant crap that takes "millions of simulataneous[sic] clients" is not mission critical at all. Nobody is going to die if it fails. All that's going to happen is that some bald old fags in suits are going to get butthurt over losing a few millions of dollars that they wouldn't spend otherwise.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 7:49
>>28
For most companies, the ``mission'' does not include keeping people alive. It just means doing whatever it is the company does.
The real issue isn't that people use the term MISSION CRITICAL, it's that MISSION CRITICAL isn't as important as people think it is.
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Step 2 discovered2008-12-10 8:33
>>28,29
1. Our product is killing customers
2. Decline in unsatisfied customers
3. PROFIT!
>>32
That has to be the most fucked-up ``introduction on computer science'' course I've ever seen. If you posted this to reddit with an appropriate topic line, it would almost certainly generate a months-long circlejerking contest in the blogosphere.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 10:30
>>35
DO IT MAGGOT. I haven't got a reddit account and don't know the relevant buzzwords and memes of the site.
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352008-12-10 10:35
>>36
Blah. I only have a reddit account so I can downmod everything I don't like. Someone else do it.
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Anonymous2008-12-10 11:01
>>37
You should upmod things you like, too. It's only fair if you moderate everything.
Nobody moderates everything.
THE SYSTEM IS FLAWED!!!
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Anonymous2008-12-10 11:50
I only have a Reddit account so I can mod up links to /prog/.