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Indiego

KirkCheated09 wrote: »

Indiego wrote: »

Noone ever does Spanish </3 /foreveralone

como estas? .. is that right?

Muy bien, correcto

Mal, y tu? :P

KirkCheated09

Indiego wrote: »

Muy bien, correcto

Mal, y tu? :P

soy buen

Indiego

KirkCheated09 wrote: »

Indiego wrote: »

Muy bien, correcto

Mal, y tu? :P

soy buen

Estoy bien* :P

dalta5billion

Troxck wrote: »

Honestly, I find c# easier than HTML/CSS... We did it in class and my teacher was impressed I could make text scroll across the screen. I had to show her then she started teaching the rest of our year... The only thing holding me back is maths, I'm not good at it...

Literally everyone I know who has done CS has said they're crap at maths. They all say it's a different type of maths.

I don't know if Project Maths helps with more "problem solving" aspects, but they took off matrices and something else off the course, which apparently are an important part (arrays?).

On a side note, holy crap I want to go to your school. Our 'programming' module was basically us typing in the source code of a python text game. It was a 'success' if you got it to run. FFS like... :rolleyes:

Troxck

dalta5billion wrote: »

Literally everyone I know who has done CS has said they're crap at maths. They all say it's a different type of maths.

I don't know if Project Maths helps with more "problem solving" aspects, but they took off matrices and something else off the course, which apparently are an important part (arrays?).

On a side note, holy crap I want to go to your school. Our 'programming' module was basically us typing in the source code of a python text game. It was a 'success' if you got it to run. FFS like... :rolleyes:

This was basic HTML, we had to make our timetable, some people couldn't make a box... I heard Python was really hard, what type of text game?

paddyzk

Can someone explain programming to me ? :cool:

dalta5billion

Troxck wrote: »

This was basic HTML, we had to make our timetable, some people couldn't make a box... I heard Python was really hard, what type of text game?

Much easier than C or C#, trust me :roll eyes:

As in picks a random number between one and twenty, while trys<5, check if guess ==(is equal to) random number , if so print "you got it" and trys = 5. Else, print "nope" and trys =(trys + 1)

Python's handy, most of the libraries (e.g. random number generator) are easy to include.

dalta5billion

paddyzk wrote: »

Can someone explain programming to me ? :cool:

Sure, can't sleep anyways. Fire away, or will I start?

Troxck

paddyzk wrote: »

Can someone explain programming to me ? :cool:

What do you mean? It's basically writing a programme you use. Like, someone had to write your OS, someone had to write all the files you would use... It's basically a set of instructions you tell your computer to do and it does it.
Like, in c# you do Console.WriteLine("Paddyzk");
Console.ReadLine();
I just wrote a "programme" to tell your computer to write Paddyzk

dalta5billion

Right here's an "app" to tell when the temperature is too hot for you

myidealtemp = 21

if(current temp >= myidealtemp)
print("It's too hot")
else:
print("It's too cold")

Troxck

dalta5billion wrote: »

Right here's an "app" to tell when the temperature is too hot for you

myidealtemp = 21

if(current temp >= myidealtemp)
print("It's too hot")
else:
print("It's too cold")

Where did you learn to do that? What language should I focus on? I've done a bit of c# but that's it. Should I focus on any? Also, that's really cool

dalta5billion

Troxck wrote: »

dalta5billion wrote: »

Right here's an "app" to tell when the temperature is too hot for you

myidealtemp = 21

if(current temp >= myidealtemp)
print("It's too hot")
else:
print("It's too cold")

Where did you learn to do that? What language should I focus on? I've done a bit of c# but that's it. Should I focus on any? Also, that's really cool

Cough. That's probably bad Python code, its just to give him an idea of if else arguments etc.

Python is really easy and fun. Also, it's a tad inefficient, so it's not used everywhere. TBH I don't know yet the difference between C, C++, C# is, but I'd assume they're all of equal benefit to learn. Java I believe is for Android apps, and Objective-C is for iOS (iPhone and iPad).

Troxck

dalta5billion wrote: »

Cough. That's probably bad Python code, its just to give him an idea of if else arguments etc.

Python is really easy and fun. Also, it's a tad inefficient, so it's not used everywhere. TBH I don't know yet the difference between C, C++, C# is, but I'd assume they're all of equal benefit to learn. Java I believe is for Android apps, and Objective-C is for iOS (iPhone and iPad).

Well, I think if I decided to do CS, they expect us to know nothing so if we're in 3rd and know this, we'd be fairly decent by college, hopefully. I think I'll try and "master" c# this summer and focus on c++ and java in TY.

dalta5billion

Troxck wrote: »

Well, I think if I decided to do CS, they expect us to know nothing so if we're in 3rd and know this, we'd be fairly decent by college, hopefully. I think I'll try and "master" c# this summer and focus on c++ and java in TY.

We'll be fine! Don't worry. Just have fun making whatever you want.

Anyways, I need my sleep, my beloved Mac has decided to stop a) booting properly b) stop accepting my admin password and c) refuse to copy any files to a backup hard drive.

paddyzk

Deadly stuff.I might actually give it go tbh.
Biggest n00b question evar. - where do you type all that stuff into :cool:

Troxck

dalta5billion wrote: »

We'll be fine! Don't worry. Just have fun making whatever you want.

Anyways, I need my sleep, my beloved Mac has decided to stop a) booting properly b) stop accepting my admin password and c) refuse to copy any files to a backup hard drive.

Goodnight, also, that's unfortunate, hope it doesn't fcuk up completely.

dalta5billion

Troxck wrote: »

Goodnight, also, that's unfortunate, hope it doesn't fcuk up completely.

Hah yeah, I'll have to reformat the disk 1 TB of my stuff had to go to 500 GB of external HD. Lot of choices were made today...

Troxck

dalta5billion wrote: »

Hah yeah, I'll have to reformat the disk 1 TB of my stuff had to go to 500 GB of external HD. Lot of choices were made today...

Oh well, I think I have max. 40GBs of important files...

Troxck

paddyzk wrote: »

Deadly stuff.I might actually give it go tbh.
Biggest n00b question evar. - where do you type all that stuff into :cool:

Depends on the language. If you have never done any coding at all you should spend a few days on HTML. Many people would say not to but it's an easier start. After that you should probably pick objective c, c#, c++ and java. I would recommend c#, a guy called " onlivegamer" on YouTube has the best tutorials. He tells you what to download too. I hope this was somewhat helpful

Indiego

Troxck wrote: »

paddyzk wrote: »

Deadly stuff.I might actually give it go tbh.
Biggest n00b question evar. - where do you type all that stuff into :cool:

Depends on the language. If you have never done any coding at all you should spend a few days on HTML. Many people would say not to but it's an easier start. After that you should probably pick objective c, c#, c++ and java. I would recommend c#, a guy called " onlivegamer" on YouTube has the best tutorials. He tells you what to download too. I hope this was somewhat helpful

Yous are so lucky you got to learn proper programming languages in school, we did this poxy 'Scratch' programming that's designed for kids :L It's so easy, even I, who I would consider a total noob, was able to make a fairly decent/complex pacman type game

Troxck

Indiego wrote: »

Troxck wrote: »

paddyzk wrote: »

Deadly stuff.I might actually give it go tbh.
Biggest n00b question evar. - where do you type all that stuff into :cool:

Depends on the language. If you have never done any coding at all you should spend a few days on HTML. Many people would say not to but it's an easier start. After that you should probably pick objective c, c#, c++ and java. I would recommend c#, a guy called " onlivegamer" on YouTube has the best tutorials. He tells you what to download too. I hope this was somewhat helpful

Yous are so lucky you got to learn proper programming languages in school, we did this poxy 'Scratch' programming that's designed for kids :L It's so easy, even I, who I would consider a total noob, was able to make a fairly decent/complex pacman type game

We only did HTML for the last 3 classes. We did scratch too. I thought it was the best thing when I was in first year.

Bazinga_N

We never ever did any programming in school.. Would have loved to though.

Troxck

Bazinga_N wrote: »

We never ever did any programming in school.. Would have loved to though.

Irish schools are way behind Europe in terms of computing in secondary school. My friend says that his cousins in Eastern Europe learn proper programming and app developing in their 2nd year equivalent.

Bazinga_N

Troxck wrote: »

Irish schools are way behind Europe in terms of computing in secondary school. My friend says that his cousins in Eastern Europe learn proper programming and app developing in their 2nd year equivalent.

We have a computer class once a week. All we do is go on the internet. Facebook only recently got blocked in school Next year is going to be such a burden.

Troxck

Bazinga_N wrote: »

We have a computer class once a week. All we do is go on the internet. Facebook only recently got blocked in school Next year is going to be such a burden.

You do know you can get past blocked sites? It's not hard, I watched Youtube for a lot of 3rd year. For example, if it says http://, just put https://
Sometimes this doesn't work, just look up proxies or proxy sites, you'll be grand.

Bazinga_N

Troxck wrote: »

You do know you can get past blocked sites? It's not hard, I watched Youtube for a lot of 3rd year. For example, if it says http://, just put https://
Sometimes this doesn't work, just look up proxies or proxy sites, you'll be grand.

Youtube's not blocked in school neither is Twitter.. Just Facebook </3

I'll try that Thanks!

Out of curiosity, how/where would you start with programming. Tbh, I've always loved computers and would love to learn more about them, but I don't think it'd be something I'd do career wise.

Troxck

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Youtube's not blocked in school neither is Twitter.. Just Facebook </3

I'll try that Thanks!

Out of curiosity, how/where would you start with programming. Tbh, I've always loved computers and would love to learn more about them, but I don't think it'd be something I'd do career wise.

Well, it depends really. If you want to do web design, then HTML and CSS is where you should start, then improve it with javascript. http://www.w3schools.com/ is your resource for that.

Proper programming like c#, c++, python and java have an abundance of tutorials on the web but my favourite would be from onlivegamer. http://www.youtube.com/user/onlivegamer/videos?view=1 Here's his channel! Look through some of his tutorials and see what you like, he only shows the basics. If you search the web you'll find more. Hope this was helpful

SChique00

Why am I sitting here watching The Princess Diaries when I could be doing some pilates.... xP

EoghanIRL

Troxck wrote: »

Bazinga_N wrote: »

Youtube's not blocked in school neither is Twitter.. Just Facebook </3

I'll try that Thanks!

Out of curiosity, how/where would you start with programming. Tbh, I've always loved computers and would love to learn more about them, but I don't think it'd be something I'd do career wise.

You can still access command prompt on school computers. Just use that to access websites. I guess it helps of you can write script. Another trick is to go to yahoo translator (babel fish) and translate the URL. Some blocking

EoghanIRL

Some blocking program's are very basic in schools.