The Way to Programming
The Way to Programming
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I decided to go to college and in about two months my first semester is going to be done. I’m taking a college I writing class and a basic math class.
I’ve been reading a book called how to become a straight A student by Cal Newport. He says in the book that A students don’t read for (or before) technical courses and that you have to capture a lot of examples (of problems then make them into problem sets that are practice for an exam). I tried doing this but the professor for my basic math class expects us to have already read the material. The only thing I like about her teaching style is that she does probably minimum 15 to 20 problems every class, so if you’ve done the homework (which she doesn’t check) and go over the problems you’ll have the concepts set. I’m behind by two chapters and the book we’re using is called developmental mathematics by Marvin L. Bittinger. Besides the book being very bad (I’m on fractions and using a book called “the book of fractions” by Iulia & Teodoru Gugoiu). I keep falling behind further every week / class. Plus the only personal (one on one) tutoring I get for math is once weekly. There’s a 7 day a week math center for tutoring that is open for long hours. The only reason I can’t go to it is because where I live until daylight savings hour it gets dark around 5pm. Plus I don’t wake up early enough for my math professors office hours. The only day her hours are in the afternoon it gets night. There’s been robberies next to my college at night which is why I don’t stay there at night. Today in class we started chapter 4 which is percent notation.
And now I’ve decided (since last year) that I want to major in math and do research in math and possibly physics / computer science. My school has a lot of clubs so I can find friends. Everyone keeps to their friends and most of the people stick to their own ethnicity (quite a few don’t but not the majority).
Any tips on catching up quickly or any good books / PDFs on time management. I bought getting things done by David Allen and couldn’t get past the first chapter because it’s too confusing. I downloaded a presentation of his from torrent but it disappeared from the site. It was from 1998 / 1999. Also is there a book similar to the book I’m using, but teaches math better or more explained. Plus because I’m overweight I awake late in the morning / afternoon, probably because of my diabetes.
Are there any hosting sites with free fast download where I can download math courses? I can’t download torrent because I don’t use VPN.
All I can say is. Humans are inventors. All humans are inventors.
Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook
Bill Gates invented Microsoft
Steve Jobs invented Apple
You want to become successful you invent stuff. First you learn the basics. Then you use the basic to invent and create. Your invention dont need to be complicated. It could a simple game like Flappy Birds with $50000 revenue income each day.
See the thing with school. They only teach you to copy and learn. School dont really teach you all other stuff for invention. Only you can make your invention successful. See the thing is. You are doubting yourself. You think you are not able to do it without someone teaching you. Just remember that all humans are inventors.
See this guy invented a dating system. Nobody taught him that. He invented it all up by himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF_3x5FeICw
Humans inventors. That is all I have to say. If you doubt yourself. Then go to college.
- Nobody taught Karl Marx about communism. He invented communism by himself.
- Nobody taught the Greeks about democracy. They invented democracy.
- Nobody taught Hitler about being a Nazi. He invented Nazi system all by himself.
- Nobody taught Buddha about Buddhism. He invented the system himself.
- Humans are inventors. All humans are inventors without realizing it.
- Nobody taught Sun Tzu about the Art of War. He invented the Art of War.
You can only unleash your creativity and potential human mind by inventing something your self.
And yeah. Humans also invented a soccer/football religion.
Did you know Diego Maradonna is the soccer god. His religion was invented by his followers thus making him a god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRo_1xrJ2A
You must get rid of the school indoctrination.
You must never work for other people
College is not a required thing for programming and can also be dangerous for your learning.
A lot of colleges don’t teach programming in the right way. In my recruit interviews I see a lot of times people with academic background struggling and people that didn’t go to college performing far better. College is not useless, used in the right way can be beneficial; but if you are smart enough it won’t be something that you can’t do alone.
One of the most important things to lean programming is to program regularly. Reading three books and programming at the end of the third will only have drawbacks. You will forget the majority of things you read and you postpone the actual programming, that is, the reason you are reading those books.
Try to have your ideas clear. Choose a field in which you want to work/program and try creating a learning map for it.
If you want to be a web developer then knowing C is useless for example.
If you want to be a medic, then university is necessary. For the majority of things college may be beneficial but not a must. You can be successful without the college. But we must be honest with ourselves: taking the top of the mountain as an example is totally unrealistic. The probability of you having billionaire success and performing bad in different disciplines are totally opposites. If you failed that basic math course then probably you are a person who will have a lot of troubles learning alone and so college may be highly recommended for you.
You need to lower the bar and not seeing example of bright people but a more realistic objectives.
If your ideas are good you can start a funding campaign with relative easiness. If they are really good then you won’t have problems finding backers.
You don’t need books about studying. You should already know how to study if you are considering college. There is not much to say: you have to read, understand, use and repeat. It’s this simple.
Every time you struggle with something, the probability of you being successful diminish. If you have problems for the whole course then you should probably find something else to study…
You can still be successful and at the same time having trouble studying but it’s far less probable to happen.
There is no shortcut in learning quickly that is not an obvious one. For example, spaced repetition is something that should come natural.
We are not “designed” to tackle a problem in one shot. We need it to divide it in smaller problems.
Why are you reading books that aim to make you a fast learner?
What is taking so much time?
I just refreshed the page and saw your reply. Having a realistic objective like: “having enough money for a house, living and books” it’s a healthy thought that won’t destroy you. Having lowered the bar, you have time to relax. To do something for work, you don’t need to be a genius at it.
For Android there is no Objective-C to use. You can either use Java, C/C++ with NDK or C# or with Xamarin(I tend to not mention it because you have to pay).
Even if it uses Java it won’t be the same thing in some cases of using desktop Java. The language will still be the same but the way in which you use it may change drastically. Android brings a very large library with it, so you will probably use the Android library for a lot of tasks that required different solutions on the desktop.
To make softwares for Android you need to learn Java to be serious about it, and even do it for work in most companies developing Android apps.
If you plan to be a mobile apps developer then you should be able to develop apps at a decent level for both Android and iOS. If you plan to get serious on it, it’s recommended to learn both platforms.
You may start learning programming in the way you prefer. You can choose pretty much any language you want.
The first part of learning is focused on the concepts common to all languages: the constructs, logic, using libraries etc. etc.
All these concepts are shared by every language, so choosing Java over C will still give you the brainmapping of programming.
After you know this first part then you can jump learning the language in detail and its important libraries. In the previous step you didn’t focus on the language, you simply learned programming. You will learn the language at this second step and you will start mastering it.
As I stated before, reading without programming is the wrongest thing you can do. When you have enough concepts try to start programming as early as possible and try to make in parallel two kind of exercises:
1)Short exercise for acquiring concepts
2)Large problems to have a feel of an actual programming session
The preferred candidates for companies are not the ones that will write the fastest code. They are the ones that can design complex programs. We at work had a lot of problems with optimizations competition winners: they weren’t able to design programs, can’t think solution, can’t do teamwork etc. etc.
They were good only at optimizing the code of other people by losing weeks over it.
With today hardware, the thinker is welcomed and the monkey is more a circus freak rather than someone you want in a team.
How do I deal with my relative who is a college pusher? This relative thinks that all the successful people who have money (millions / billions) went to college. I know Micheal Jackson, Justin Bieber, 2pac [my favorite rap artist of the 20th century], Eminem [my favorite rap artist of the 21st century] etc… didn’t go to college and they’re millionaires. Also just because you make a lot of money doesn’t mean you’ll be happy. You can just look at what happened to Heath Leather for the joker role. He virtually went crazy because the role hunted him and he had millions of dollars. He never got to see the movie he made. The same with Robin Williams and Lee Thompson Young.
I just want to make enough to have a roof over my head, food, and enough money to buy books.
I’m really into cryptography and computer security.
Also I learn at a very slow rate. Can you recommend me some books (or a list) that deals with learning quickly (or at least at a normal rate).
I’m reading a book called “Become a Super Learner: Learn Speed Reading & Advanced Memorization”.
Any advice from anyone would help. Thanks.
Edit: Is there a language I can use for Android instead of objective C?
The only reason I’m asking is because I have a strong dislike for apple products / software and will only make software for Android.
Would I have to learn Java in order to make software for Android?
There are a couple of better ways to do this. Check out these links
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/78f72403-509f-466c-9cb1-0f37ea5ce161
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/32392-sql-basics-in-vbnet/
http://www.developerfusion.com/article/4278/using-adonet-with-sql-server/ Start with Algorithms and how to create a good flow chart, if you know what to do rest is just a words
on top of the page :
session_start();
then you can read out the username on the same page via :
$username=$_POST['username'];
and assign it to a session variable :
$_SESSION['username']=$username;
or read it directly into the session variable :
$_SESSION['username']=$_POST['username'];
Then, for the entire validity for the session you can pull up the username via :
echo $_SESSION['username'];
Singly/doubly linked lists, Treque, Deque, Queue.
Red-Black tree.
Also, check out my professor’s textbook.
It’s free.
http://opendatastructures.org/
There are examples in Java, and C++.
That may give you ideas.
starts with HTML and CSS, there’s a lot of resources available online, mozilla mdn is quite helpful, also webplatforms.org.
once you are comfortable with it, maybe you want to start adding some more interactivity in it, that’s when you learn about javascript and exposed to the framework such as jquery, prototype, mootools.
then one day you might get bored, you want to create dynamic page, fancier stuff, so dwells into php and mysql. sky is the limit from now on.
once you’ve gotten hold of the basic, you might as well explore interesting framework and cms out there
Changed it a bit to make it easier to understand (for me at least).
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[][][] resultArray = {
{{10, 11, 12, 13},
{20, 21, 22, 23},
{30, 31, 32, 33},
{40, 41, 42, 43}},
{{50, 51, 52, 53},
{60, 61, 62, 63},
{70, 71, 72, 73},
{80, 81, 82, 83}},
{{90, 91, 92, 93},
{100, 101, 102, 103},
{110, 111, 112, 113},
{120, 121, 122, 123}},};
int sum = 0;
// for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) { // You only want the first dimension
// for (int j = 0; j < resultArray[i].length; j++) {
// for (int k = 0; k < 1; k++) { // You only want the first column
// System.out.printf("+ resultArray[%s][%s][%s]\n", i, j, k);
// sum += resultArray[i][j][k];
// }
// }
// }
//
for (int index=0; index
You could refer to the base url of your website instead of an absolute directory
see this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3575286/cant-insert-a-picture-into-richtextbox
this
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvcs/thread/5e2ff4fd-f058-4e20-a4a6-e9c3669ec4b8
A bread is being sold at the bakery. At the start of the day n bread are baked each of them with quality x. As time passes new bread are baked with various qualities, customers come in and buy the bread. When a customer comes to the salesperson: “Give me the best bread you’ve got!” The salesperson takes the best bread and sells it to the customer. Help the bakery to have better bussiness by always selling their customers the best bread. n(1<=n<=100000) is given and after that n numbers x. The number x describes the quality of the bread. The number m follows after that, then m(1<=m<=100000) numbers y. y describes the events during the day. If y is zero. it means that a customer came and bought the best bread , so it has to write out the quality of the sold bread or "No" if there is no bread. If y isn't zero, it means that a new bread has been baked of the quality y which can be bought from that moment on.
Input: 5 15 32 4 18 29 12 0 0 50 0 24 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 Print: 32 29 50 97 24 18 15 4 No
myLight is connected to the correct sensor, as for your other two points I am unsure how it can contain or return a different value as future strings of code that execute the colour[0] and [1]’s specific requirements work as expected and the method of recording those values are the same as colour[2]
Currently looking to see if any possible errors could be caused to skip the code, so here’s the preceding section for those to gander at.
task main() {
//variable setup//
int colour [3];
int count [3];
bool exit_cond = false;
int range = 5;
//end variable setup//
/*
////COLOUR ARRAY VALUES////
Array Value 1 (0): Light Square (end game)
Array Value 2 (1): Dark Square (counting)
Array Value 3 (2): Black Line (wall)
*/
/*
////COUNT ARRAY VALUES////
Array Value 1 (0): coloured square
Array Value 2 (1): sonar avoidance
Array Value 3 (2): wall bounce
*/
while(true){ // loads the array with light values for colour
for(int i = 0;i < 3; i++){
while(true){
if (SensorValue[myTouch] > 0) {
colour [i] = SensorValue[myLight];
wait10Msec(50);
break;
}
}
}
nxtDisplayString(1,"Value: %i", colour [0]); //Display array Value 1 (0): Light Square
nxtDisplayString(2,"Value: %i", colour [1]); //Display array Value 2 (1): Dark Square
nxtDisplayString(3,"Value: %i", colour [2]); //Display array Value 3 (2): Black Line
wait10Msec(500);
if (SensorValue[myTouch] > 0) {exit_cond = true;}
else {exit_cond = false;}
eraseDisplay();
break;
}
while(true) {
motor[motorC] = 30; // initial motor speed setup
motor[motorB] =30; // initial motor speed setup
if(SensorValue[mySonar] < 25){ // turns away 90* left if distance less than 30
count [1]++;
motor[motorC] = 0;
motor[motorB] = 30;
wait10Msec(130);
motor[motorB] = 0;
}
MDF is not Access, it is MS SQL server database. (Master Data File)
When you create a database in MSSQL Server it will create one MDF file and one LDF file, the LDF is a log file.
when you create a database with SQL Server Express, the MDF File will be added to your ASP.Net application.
When you start working with ASP.Net, the best choice in DB Server is a SQL Server database. You can use MSSQL Express, or Compact databases.
Advantage is that you can use Entity Framework and that is in my opinion the fastest way to set up a database and a good way to use that database, especially for a beginner.
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