/prog/ - High school Graduation

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 2:49

I just graduated high school and my perents want to buy me a computer and I'm thinking of getting into programming. Whats a good laptop for programming/

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 2:55

IBM PC 5150

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 3:28

TI-85

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 4:50

You clearly should pursue a higher education before you even consider learning how to program

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 5:15

Take CS at MIT

Name: ⁄⁄ 2010-06-20 11:00

>>1
Any modern windows/apple/linux/etc laptop would be fine really, unless you are planing on doing something doing something specialized requiring specific hardware.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:06

>>4
That's so wrong. I started programming at the age of 7. But if you're trying to get rid of OP, okay.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:24

>>7
That's a good way to pick up terrible habits.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:25

>>8
If you start with BASIC or Java, yeah, sure.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 13:12

OP: LEARN SICP.

I wish someone could have told me this at your age.. so many wasted years.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 13:37

Find something at a pawn shop for $50. EVERYONE should learn to program on a POS computer, so they know how to optimize things. It is criminal that software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting faster.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 16:03

>>11
Not necessarily. Perhaps one might find compilation on a slow machine to be tedious, then one's lack of patience would limit oneself to writing small toy programs when more could otherwise be learnt by more complicated program design.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 0:27

>>12
If compilation is ever slow for you, you're using the wrong language. Nothing can be learned from using Sepples.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-14 12:51

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 4:35

Don't change these.

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High school Graduation

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2 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 2:55

3 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 3:28

4 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 4:50

5 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 5:15

6 Name: ⁄⁄ 2010-06-20 11:00

7 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:06

8 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:24

9 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 11:25

10 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 13:12

11 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 13:37

12 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 16:03

13 Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 0:27

14 Name: Anonymous 2010-11-14 12:51

16 Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 4:35