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Ceebs with writing a program from scratch, as you go along you'll pick up bits of code such as search, sort and math algorithms or trivial pieces like opening a buffer connection (networked or local) and then its more a case of learning how they fit together, like flow control; knowing and reading expressions is important when reading others code or getting to grips with something you need to understand and concepts like abstraction, recursion and OOP in general will be important. To be honest if you'd have to say create an application like a word processor or msn from the ground up, you'd need a huge memory capacity... im currently 3rd year CS and we get given most our code, our job is to piece it all together and get a thorough understanding of what it does via comments and problem solving the code were given; in high performance computing we have to split the hough transform algorithm up into cluster computing to see how fast we can get it to process and bitmap, the hough transform, the openMPI, colour threshold and thinning have been given to us, we simply have to get the code to run as fast as possible hence showing our understanding... You probably shouldnt be drawing a blank on very simple projects, such as getting it to store names and phone numbers and then printing them out. I think it comes down to practice, if youve been given enough similar examples you'll solve the problem in the way you've been taught. Also understanding the problem is important too, if you've been given a problem thats been worded strange and you dont know EXACTLY what it wants from you, you'll struggle to find a solution. hope this makes sense

We made an e-commerce website for selling games, back end was built in java, front end was a web page so html, js and php/css etc and the db was a mysql interface. we broke up into 3 groups of 2 and did a task each. Did you have to use a specific language or were you free to do as you wished??

Depends what course in computing you shall be studying.... I'll take the presumption of straight CS and recommend http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Organization-Design-Architecture-Sajjan/dp/0849304164 "we only used about half the material in the book and we were able to build an 8-bit computer from TTL chips. If you read the thing cover to cover, you'd be able to build a 16- or 32-bit machine no problem. It was a ton of fun and this book was an absolute lifesaver. Together, the book and course fundamentally changed the way I look at computers and I have a much better understanding of how they operate and what's inside them."

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Use it as kindle for my wood fire Im still collecting though so i doubt it will be a while, i have 2 books on pascal, one on cobol, one on java, 3 on computer architecture and some random A level math stuff...as of yet ive covered maybe 3 chapters of java and finished one book on computer architecture and im going to keep them for reference P.S i gave away my A+ and N+ manuals, they were chunky things....

Does / Would it have any detrimental effects on the environmental effects on the atmosphere?

Just why isnt mass times constant cubed?? seems to give the equation more 3 dimensional view or atleast gives it some more exponential growth. Someone must know why it cant be cubed?

just yeh... and the "confined environment" is to trap the water, as for it not to escape back into the atmosphere... pretty simplistic so im guessing there has to be some serious constraints scientifically, maybe hitting lava is harder than i presume?

Fuzzy set's yeyeee also sequential and combinational are forms of logic axioms are fuzzy logic, because they are fuzzy to me

I imagine they all share the same totem, i also imagine that the closest ancestor of most monkeys in relation to us are each other, though i know no specifics of the branching. As far as im aware species dont evolve at different speeds, just for different purposes. Not sure if this helps.

Consciously were about as physical as electricity, whatever that is.....is that.....and must be that. Philosophically we exist in more than the physical sense as we have access to idea's

So ive been thinking this for a while and never really thought of asking anyone that may be in the know such as you guys... Why have we not dug huge holes in the ground and created some perceptual cycle that uses a huge amount of sea water/lava with some turbine in some confined environment? Therein creating a clean, renewable and i'd think extremely efficient (lava being like super mega hot and all) energy source.. I guess set up costs may be the biggest consideration but with some sort of unified program and lets just a little IMF funding (they could create a cover for the project more than easily enough though i dont really want to get into the politics of it because it just shows how stupid humanity is), however in relation to science is there any particular reason its not a liable theory?

Scala, Java, Python or C#. Doesn't really matter if you learn them all

well its just unlikely that the first of any mutation will be beneficial, this is what i meant by "its very improbable to be the first mutation", hence why dinosaurs pre-date humans... its quite simple what it means, we dont evolve we devolve.

nah man, its very improbable to be the first mutation, other mutations which arent advantageous would die off so the given species which evolved an eye had a greater chance at survival.....i imagine life itself has some intricate connection to the electro magnetic spectrum so thats how life evolved to have senses. without them life in all its forms would be pretty pointless i believe evolution is backwards though, the mutations subtract genetic material not add...... i have no proof other than the observable

Learn python.... learn algorithms...... learn software engineering concepts..... <---- you'll be on your way

okay i understand. what about the diode im guessing they have a limit? and how is a laser any different from a normal light, is the light just concentrated or amplified?

or carry a ghost buster backpack around with a car battery in it? i dont want anything dangerous. I want something portable but essentially i want to create a mechanism that controls the lasers precision, ive seen some awesome videos on youtube of people building personal laser displays with mirrors, balloons and bass but i wanna try program my own stuff and do alot more with it. also what scientifically constrains the power a laser can output?

Yes actually, is 532nm the best for the human vision? what does the W actually mean , other than a 1000 milli watts, is it the heat? i mean a watt refers to a joule and a joule refers to a newton and a newton refers to a law of motion .... i mean to say what makes it defined as 1W to a 300mW(without linking 5 separate equations), im guessing its essentially the concentration of light? and maybe something related to infra red (when talking about carrying heat) not the wattage. im thinking of doing some research into robotics and lasers for a dissertation, such as creating basic images on a wall or reacting to sound input. cheers.

it was Epoch

god = belief - religion * constant squared.....derp

i would have raised my hand too....

i thought this was a reply to another post :?

i lied Everything to some extent is needed for programming, you may need to dip into certain aspects of them area's to optimise your program or to even get it working. What i meant to say is that a software course would be better for programming as it would teach you more about algorithms, loops, program structure, library's (in which some of the things you mentioned would be encapsulated) as well as lower end stuff like data types, memory addressing and offsets etc (c++ and the likes). Also i imagine you would be taught certain concepts in programming which can be challenging to understand from more formal tutorials such as classes and objects and when in the program they are indivisible or totally different (is-a / has-a / is-has-a many). Some advanced logical expressions may be easier to understand when taught also. In other words what you will learn WILL help you program but only if thats the area of program you wish to do, as far as programming goes itself it has its own list of modules