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« Reply #40 on: January 09, 2011, 02:14:PM » |
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Yes, you have to, if one wants to use Java (the language, not platform).
I have written many Java programs in nothing but a text editor. Find or writet a Java program to print out the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall and post it here. I'll get one in Python and Lisp (I am not going to write them). Then, we will explain them and see which one focuses on the tools and which on the problem. |
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« Reply #41 on: January 09, 2011, 04:13:PM » |
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Notepad?! Use a real editor (and a real operating system)!
Vim is the best editor which has no n00bness about it.
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« Reply #42 on: January 09, 2011, 04:24:PM » |
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I'll get one in Python and Lisp (I am not going to write them). Then, we will explain them and see which one focuses on the tools and which on the problem.
I'm confused. What does that have to do with needing an IDE to write the program? |
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« Reply #43 on: January 09, 2011, 04:48:PM » |
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I really, really want to take up fly fishing, so I voted for that. It seems like a wonderful hobby because one has to work to perfect one's casting. Also, you can also start tying your own flies, which offers an additional source of entertainment and fulfillment. Making something with your hands is always a good way to go.
Learn cards. Not just the basic games but more challenging and engaging ones. Cribbage is one of my favorites (it's not especially challenging, but it is engaging). Bridge is a game you could spend the rest of your life learning to perfect. The advantage of cards is that it's a social hobby. The downside is that people don't really play cards anymore. Except poker, but, c'mon, that's not a real use of your intellectual resources. Maybe you could find a few friends who are willing to learn a few games? Backgammon is another wonderful game to pick up.
Someone mentioned gardening, which I heartily second. There is something deeply satisfying and meditative in the practice of gardening. I'd go for both a vegetable and a flower garden. Homegrown tomatoes are heavenly. And--in my experience at least--women really dig it when you are up on all the different floral species. (Also, knowing a little bit about flower arranging can be golden. Trust me.)
This may sound silly, but practice handwriting. Make it distinctive. Most people can't write well any more, and if you have a practiced and beautiful hand, people will notice. This naturally leads to handwriting letters, another wonderful hobby that is dying out. You can find decent stationery for relatively cheap. Learn some nice handwriting, and start devoting time to writing people. I can't begin to tell you how much they appreciate it. Develop your own occasional epistolary style. Read authors' collected letters. Start correspondences. You will really impress people.
Ah well, these are the first ones that come to mind. Enjoy whatever hobbies you end up choosing!
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« Reply #44 on: January 09, 2011, 08:21:PM » |
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Yes, you have to, if one wants to use Java (the language, not platform).
I have written many Java programs in nothing but a text editor. (Notepad++ ∧ GNU compiler)→Awesomeness. Notepad?! Use a real editor (and a real operating system)! Vim is the best editor which has no n00bness about it. The Virginia Tech College of Engineering requires that I use Windows 7 as my operating system( http://www.eng.vt.edu/it/requirement). Although they give me Microsoft Visual Studio for free, I refuse to use it in favor of the GNU compiler. Notepad++ is under a GNU license, I don't really see the need to switch. |
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« Reply #45 on: January 09, 2011, 08:30:PM » |
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Yes, you have to, if one wants to use Java (the language, not platform).
I have written many Java programs in nothing but a text editor. (Notepad++ ∧ GNU compiler)→Awesomeness. Notepad?! Use a real editor (and a real operating system)! Vim is the best editor which has no n00bness about it. The Virginia Tech College of Engineering requires that I use Windows 7 as my operating system( http://www.eng.vt.edu/it/requirement). Although they give me Microsoft Visual Studio for free, I refuse to use it in favor of the GNU compiler. Notepad++ is under a GNU license, I don't really see the need to switch. Required and necessary to use are two different things. ;) My school buys our laptops for us, and then it's pretty much (more or less) on us to make sure everything works. I've gone through times where I've used Ubuntu on mine. In one class we actually need to use Linux, because Xilinx switched to being able to be used only in Linux. :S Most of my CS friends use Linux. |
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« Reply #46 on: January 09, 2011, 08:31:PM » |
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I suggest learning Chess.
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"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #47 on: January 09, 2011, 08:48:PM » |
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Yes, you have to, if one wants to use Java (the language, not platform).
I have written many Java programs in nothing but a text editor. (Notepad++ ∧ GNU compiler)→Awesomeness. Notepad?! Use a real editor (and a real operating system)! Vim is the best editor which has no n00bness about it. The Virginia Tech College of Engineering requires that I use Windows 7 as my operating system( http://www.eng.vt.edu/it/requirement). Although they give me Microsoft Visual Studio for free, I refuse to use it in favor of the GNU compiler. Notepad++ is under a GNU license, I don't really see the need to switch. Required and necessary to use are two different things. ;) My school buys our laptops for us, and then it's pretty much (more or less) on us to make sure everything works. I've gone through times where I've used Ubuntu on mine. In one class we actually need to use Linux, because Xilinx switched to being able to be used only in Linux. :S Most of my CS friends use Linux. Deviation from the Requirement
If a student chooses to deviate in any way from the computer requirement specified for his/her entering class, then there are consequences for such action:
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and therefore cannot participate in a specific course, complete a course assignment, or participate in the classroom where computer use is expected, without additional effort on the part of the faculty or the college, will be assessed any academic penalty deemed appropriate by the course instructor.
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and choose another hardware platform and/or operating system are still required to purchase the Engineering Software Bundle
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and choose another hardware or operating system platform shall not receive technical support from any College of Engineering information technology personnel.
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and subsequently require repairs for their computer will not be eligible for College or departmental loaner hardware.
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« Reply #48 on: January 09, 2011, 09:13:PM » |
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Deviation from the Requirement
If a student chooses to deviate in any way from the computer requirement specified for his/her entering class, then there are consequences for such action:
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and therefore cannot participate in a specific course, complete a course assignment, or participate in the classroom where computer use is expected, without additional effort on the part of the faculty or the college, will be assessed any academic penalty deemed appropriate by the course instructor.
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and choose another hardware platform and/or operating system are still required to purchase the Engineering Software Bundle
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and choose another hardware or operating system platform shall not receive technical support from any College of Engineering information technology personnel.
Students who deviate from the computer requirement and subsequently require repairs for their computer will not be eligible for College or departmental loaner hardware.
That's intense. Typically, what'll happen though, at least among my friends, is a reload or two per quarter (reloading the OS and the software). So that kinda wipes away the not-having-OS. Although... we mostly have the same rules, just not written down. However, being assessed an academic penalty is kinda extreme for that... if you ask me. Tech support from the college isn't terribly important. I've found more often than not that my friends/fellow students find great workarounds.  |
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« Reply #49 on: January 09, 2011, 10:36:PM » |
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(Notepad++ ∧ GNU compiler)→Awesomeness.
Notepad?! Use a real editor (and a real operating system)! Vim is the best editor which has no n00bness about it. Notepad is not the same as Notepad++. Just FYI. |
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