Hey, I took a Java class as an elective last year. It was done after school (essentially an additional period, and worth credits), funded by Oracle (wee!), and taught by a teacher that had no programming experience but was just offering the class because our school needed a programming class (it did.). Total attendance was around ten people, and the end result was me essentially teaching the class to everyone. I didn't come out of it liking Java much, but it was enough to get me from 'sortof knowing programming' to actually being proficient. Halfway into the year I installed Python and ended up spending most of the period each day doing fun projects in that. But, geez....it was hard enough for everyone else when they picked the class voluntarily. How can a high school have a mandatory programming class, and not offer any kind of help? I don't understand.
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RE: <P>first of all ..... thank you pual for your help ...</P> <P>second of all i am not in col...
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RE: Too much of a good thing?
I wouldn't use the bare code, it definitely needs comments. But, if
what i'm pulling from your commented example is correct, you have
around 6 lines of comments for every if statement. That's absurd.
The <summary> is good, but I personally would do something like
// Do we need to retrieve events from the previous month?
instead of the 3 lines, and probably cut the example bit out out of the
admittadly non-intuitive modulo. But, to each his own. More important
then comment debate, what matters is whether your style helps you, or
gets in your way. If I don't like your comments, I can just grep them
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RE: How many web design rules can I break in one project?
Every now and then I hear a strong argument as to why certain
programmers don't belong in a graphical field. This rule doesn't apply
to all of them, but would requiring approval to both code AND make
decisions about interface be such a bad idea? One need only look at
about half of the Linux window managers (the ones where 'minimalism' is
too cluttered. The kind that, if it was the only one on a computer you
had to use, you'd just stay in the 80x24 console.) -
RE: HowTo_AccessRaw SectorsOfPhysical Drives_onLinux.py
Re: HowTo_AccessRawSectorsOfPhysicalDrives_onLinux.py
That's incredible, in the sense of 'not credible. I'm sure it's real,
but.... lstHexDumpOfBootRecord? strHexDumpOfBootRecord? Last I checked,
python doesn't need type warts,
andCapitalizingThingsLikeThisThatAreMoreThanTwoWordsInLengthIsUgly,
like Java style but without the purpose...
It's one thing for code to be written in Python, it's another entirely for code to be written like Python.