Hmm. To each their own, but I really would strongly suggest preferring the faster feedback loop an IDE provides you. There is nothing that makes you nobler by doing the grunt work of manually...
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Hmm. To each their own, but I really would strongly suggest preferring the faster feedback loop an IDE provides you. There is nothing that makes you nobler by doing the grunt work of manually...
Add an IDE such as Eclipse to the mix. As a very early beginner you'll want to know how the very fundamentals of the compiler and stuff like the Java classpath work, but one of the great strengths of...
Native GUIs are overrated. Qt/GTK and C/C++ is a fair answer for that particular question if he really means that he wants to build native Linux GUI apps. An easier route is of course Python and its...
It was not an attempt to start any flamewars; it's just that the brackets really are fundamental as to what Lisp is, they provide what is called homoiconicity.
Most of the point of learning Lisp really is how it generally evolves your thinking processes about programming. It's such a great example of a nearly no-syntax language with exactly as much as is...
I actually do not really believe that understanding the "low level" represented by C necessarily helps you with understanding the ideas behind OOP, although you can certainly write OOP-ish C.
The...
I would like to point out though that if you want to code for Windows, you're better off doing it using Windows. There is no real Visual Studio replacement, and whether your Mono apps actually run on...
Ok, so... what process would respond to the client on the network socket? What would handle the HTTP protocol? What would check the query URL and map that to some server resource -- either a static...
You're assuming that there's a PHP interpreter running "behind" Apache. This is often the case, often not. At its most basic, HTML pages are plain static text and that's all Apache was built to serve...
Please don't be "hard to teach". A lot of stuff that comes from Google is not necessarily suitable for your needs as is ;)
I'm sure ofnuts would be of great help if you didn't assume this much....
Game programming in Java nowadays means pretty much using some kind of OpenGL bindings, and at that point you've already offloaded a big part of performance-critical stuff onto the library code (and...
I feel a need to nitpick this a bit further... (1) is not an integer, it is an arithmetic expression that finally evaluates as an integer. This is not so much of a "python allows your to use...
Good point. Then again it's been years since I last touched Python :)
And an interesting feature of the tuple syntax I had not thought of before: The tuple actually seems to be just the comma-separated list of things, not the parenthesis around it. So the tuple (1,2)...
Go to the Python shell and type (1). What do you get? How could you tell the difference between the expression of a parenthesized 1 and a single-element tuple if the latter also looks like (1)? You...
Because otherwise it's ambiguous with the arithmetic expression (1), which is 1 with some extra parentheses.
+1, ofnuts, I couldn't be more in agreement.
It's the "translation of problem into programming language at the tactical/strategic level" where some breadth comes in handy; it gives ideas for...
I guess I've seen things from the "working out the details is a homework excercise" perspective for too long, but I've got to say I'm a big fan of being a generalist. The really interesting...
While I am a bit partial to Python as far as languages go -- I just find it to be more cleanly designed -- Ruby has Rails, which is actually quite a handy way to do light websites...
What kind of book? Why? What difference does it make?
While it is possible to use Unicode either in Python source or maybe even in the shell, doing so is just asking for encoding-related troubles. Why not just call it "alpha" like everyone else would?
Welcome to figuring out why PHP frankly just sucks ;)
If it is only the macro system you're interested in that regard, then the most important differences deal with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro
I wouldn't be too concerned...
Well, actually, it is natively compiled... that's what the JIT-compiler does. Not straight from the text of the original Java program, but what ends up running on the processor is native code.
I would have to interject here that I am not particularly sure that the idea of some language "forcing" you to do things in certain ways is a good thing, if some other language lets you approach the...