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Or has one monkey ripped the heads off of two of your friends?
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Did you just call my friends monkeys?
That's not very nice
Also, I consider everyone on CP my friend
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Glorified monkeys, all of us.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So you already beat the swordmaster yesterday?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Every enemy I've met I've annihilated.
With your breath I'm sure they all suffocated
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I'm shaking, I'm shaking
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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On Steam you can buy the first en second version reworked with better graphics I think.
Indeed one of the best point & click adventures out there.
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Yeah GOG has them too, you can switch between new graphics and original graphics, but I've never played them.
I'll replay the fourth if they release it though
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First game to hold my attension to be able to finish it, also I was not able to die in it (the usual out come of me playing). Is Guy Brushthreepwood immortal ? , the graphics used and old VGA driver that might not be compatible with modern video standards, hmmm...
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The Scumm emulator allows you to play most Lucasarts adventures on virtually any platform - SUMMVM
Day of the tentacle is one of my favourites
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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The move is completed and we have learned....
In this company, there are two kinds of developers.
Those that came to work here after we still needed to collect technical books (AG After Google)
Those that worked here when we still needed to collect technical books. (BG Before Google)
..They are the ones with the 55 gallon disposal bins next to their cubes.
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The 55 gallons bin are out dated text books. After Google, books, especially tutorial and technical manual are no longer needed.
Just the other day our IT was being smart and change proxy in the middle of the day and cut off all our internet access. I can't do a squad, went home and work from home, because I need Google!!!
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Leng Vang wrote: After Google, books, especially tutorial and technical manual are no longer needed. Why would you, if you can just post your query here?
Those who only react to circumstances can Google; the rest are those who prepare, read and study
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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What if you Google to prepare, read, and study?
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You'd be rather limited; tutorials on the internet do not undergo the same screening as most books do. On most topics, the stuff that you Google would be unordered and fragmented, with the scope being based on your personal understanding - you might skip a few rather important things.
That's how we ended up with VB6-forms that concatenate a string to form a query to check your password - people who are programming based on what tutorials they can Google
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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HAve to agree - most online tutorials seems to be written by people who can't teach (or even communicate in some cases), and who don;t appear to know the subject in any detail. Many seem to have "working code" but no real idea why it works or how they got it.
Video tutorials on YouTube are the worst.
And sausages are the wurst.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Video tutorials on YouTube are the worst.
I can't agree more. Video in general is a bad medium for learning programming in my opinion. Re-reading a chapter or paragraph for better comprehension feels natural. Skipping back multiple times to find the exact time someone started talking about a topic is irritating at best. Not to even mention the content quality.
OriginalGriff wrote:
And sausages are the wurst.
Now I'm hungry
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I'm not really a fan of writing in books, but occasionally a scribbled note has reduced the amount of kicking-myself over the years, particularly for technologies I don't use every year -- such as Perl and XSLT.
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I love my notebooks. Useful for everything from notes on language quirks to scribbling architecture ideas
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I don't Google because I don't know or understand the subject. I Google because I can't remember the exact darn syntax.
Let me tell ya, despite many names, everything we use old or new is the same thing over and over again. We use to call them formatted text data file now they slapped a name called XML or JSON. We use to have server and now called cloud. But the syntax and steps to do it different, the concept is the same.
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Leng Vang wrote: I Google because I can't remember the exact darn syntax.
So do I.
Leng Vang wrote: We use to call them formatted text data file now they slapped a name called XML or JSON
I know what you mean, but ... XML and JSON are different in that they are "standardized" ways of transferring extremely formatted data that would previously have its own proprietary format for each application that used it. Both XML and JSON simplify the process and increase the chances that another app will be able to use the data at the same time.
Leng Vang wrote: We use to have server and now called cloud.
I'd disagree - Cloud is a return to the very old "centralised processing" model with dumb terminals - but with a complete absence of data control and / or security within the company that we used to have. You can't even be sure if your Cloud supplier will still exist next week, much less that they backup properly, or don't employ your competitors...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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While I do recognize that there are terrible tutorials out there, there are also some terrible books out there. Also tutorials are not the only form of information available. I learned JS/TS almost exclusively through MDN[^] and TypeScriptLang[^]. Don't get me wrong - books are great. But with how rapidly technology is changing, I'd rather read up-to-date online documentation than a probably out-of-date book that isn't due a new version til next year or later.
As an aside, being able to filter through web searches, compare sources, and form actual knowledge from the aggregate is an underappreciated skill. Some topics force you to use this method either due to fragmented information or such rapidly changing technology that books as a medium are insufficient. The example that pops into my head immediately is IRC. There are books but if you base an IRC client implementation on that information you'll be missing tons of modern features such as ISUPPORT, SASL, and capability negotiation while including obsolete features such as RPL_BOUNCE and RPL_SUMMONING.
TL;DR: Books are great for topics that don't change often. Online documentation is better for rapidly changing, fragmented, or niche topics. Both have their fair share of terrible advice.
modified 10-Apr-18 15:22pm.
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Jon McKee wrote: I learned JS/TS almost exclusively through MDN[^] and TypeScriptLang[^]. The syntax, yes
Jon McKee wrote: But with how rapidly technology is changing, I'd rather read up-to-date online documentation than a probably out-of-date book that isn't due a new version til next year or later. Technology is changing? Where?
Win10 is largely still working according to the same principles as Win95.
Jon McKee wrote: There are books but if you base an IRC client implementation on that information you'll be missing tons of modern features such as ISUPPORT, SASL, and capability negotiation while including obsolete features such as RPL_BOUNCE and RPL_SUMMONING. I'm not saying that some reference-documentation needs to be in book-format; only pointing out that authors spend a lot of time gathering knowledge and putting it in an accesible format. Not just as paper-books (which I prefer, because it squats bugs better than an tablet), but also as ebooks
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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