OpenBSD 7.7 released
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To the parents or teachers: How do you teach kids to program these days? 🤔
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I started with Delphi in school, the book (that we never ever used even once and I also never looked at) taught Pascal. The UI part felt easy at first but prevented me from understanding fundamental stuff like procedures or functions or even begin and end blocks for ifs or loops. For example I always thought that I needed to have a button somewhere, even if hidden. That gave me a handler procedure where I could put code and somehow call it. Two or three years later, a new mate from the parallel class finally told me that this wasn’t necessary and how to do thing better.
You know all too well that back in the day there was not a whole lot of information out there. And the bits that did exist were well hidden. At least from me. Eventually discovering planet-quellcodes.de (I don’t remember if that was the original forum or if that got split off from some other board) via my best schoolmate was like finding the Amber Room. Yeah, reading the ITG book would have been a very good idea for sure. :-)
In hindsight, a console program without the UI overhead might have been better. At least for the very start. Much less things to worry about or get lost.
Hence, I’d recommend to start programming with a console program. As for the language, not sure. But Python is probably a good choice, it doesn’t require a lot of surrounding boilerplate like, say Java or Go. It also does exceptionally well in the principle of least surprise.
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Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had wha … ⌘ Read more
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of just /mc. This is a return to olden times.
The Apache web server, and probably many other web servers, had a
simple way of adding personal web pages for local users. This meant
that an URL ending with ~mc led directly to a subdirectory of user
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用 Go 語言開發一個石頭剪刀布遊戲，很簡單
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Weightedrand：Go 權重隨機選擇
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Computers in school
IntroductionA version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-23
(Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
16(?) computers with co … ⌘ Read more
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@prologic@twtxt.net and the aim, and end result, is that by reading and learning from it you will prepare yourself to nearly completely avoid accidents. Am I right? 🙂
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A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌 Media
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These ideas are dr the two books:
- Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems by Sidney Dekker (2011)
- Engineering a Safer World by Nancy Leveson (2011)
The former I haven’t read. The later I haven’t finished reading 😅