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Mmmm, the problem I can see is that by telling kids "Computer Programming is the Future" you are going to create a government style foul up. A friend of mine who was in the IT/networking side of things, took a 'gap' year(s) came back as a teacher, now is fed up with it. He like a lot us was one the Techie/Geeky kids who though 'I wonder how...', he has found that trying to inspire kids to program is hard. Programming you have to make lots of errors and learn by them. I think its built in rather than taught... Mind you it might be possible...
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Maximilien wrote: Code Project should be visible in schools.
Why stop there? We can make CP available in strip clubs too. That way, instead of boozing up and having fun at a place like that, people can go and learn how to program a computer while having strippers and loud music all around them. You haven't lived until a thong is the reason you forgot that semicolon!
Jeremy Falcon
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getStringFromObject(); 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: getStringFromObject();
See, programming can be fun! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Why do girls need to be in programming?
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To restore balance to the Force.
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harold aptroot wrote: To restore balance to the Force.
If chicks wanted to be in IT, they would. Thus balance is already restored. And I've met more than one geek type chick, they're boring. I'd much rather see more chicks getting their wild on so they stay interesting.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And I've met more than one geek type chick, they're boring.
Come again ? They are not boring you are boring to them. If you could find a interesting mutual topic you will find that they are not so boring after all.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: They are not boring you are boring to them. If you could find a interesting mutual topic you will find that they are not so boring after all.
Oh trust me I've tried. I have a geek side, but most of them have way too much of a shell.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Oh trust me I've tried. I have a geek side, but most of them have way too much of a shell.
So they are boring, because they know more than you ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: So they are boring, because they know more than you ?
Feeling threatened aren't we? And no, they don't know much outside of video games or some computer crap actually. But that's not even it. They're boring because, like this message you're posting, they'd rather attack anyone real and are closed off, than to do something like grow up and come out of their shell.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: than to do something like grow up
Says the man who, a few messages ago, referred to women as "chicks", denied that there was any reason for them not to enter IT, and then suggested that they should "get their wild on" in order to "stay interesting". 
I think you've single-handedly answered the question of why there are so few women in IT.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: You think that means I'm not mature?
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Try again when you have a tenth of a percent of the experience I have being around women.
I think you've just answered your own question.
Bragging about how much "experience" you've had with women isn't something that makes people think, "wow, he's really mature!". You should have out-grown that kind of macho BS when you left high-school.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Want to come up to my place and see my DEC? 
Edit: DEC MicroVAX 3100 and VT220[^]
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
modified 9-Aug-14 12:10pm.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Want to up to my place and see my DEC?
Never in the history of ever, would that line ever work.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ugh, I've been working in finance too long... First thing that popped into my head was DECS[^]
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Want to up to my place and see my DEC ancient pc ?
FIFY
I would like to see that piece of history and disassemble it to pieces (not in the bad meaning I would like to see the motherboard.)Is is using 8 inch floppy ?
I missed the time of the first computers. So far I haven't seen a punch card machine 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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That, my friend, is no mere "ancient pc", it's not any kind of ancient micro-computer, it's an ancient mini-computer!
A label on the back says it was converted from one model to another in 1986, so it's at least that old, I have no idea when it was first assembled. The VT200 was manufactured in 1986.
As it stands, it has two hard drives, no floppy drives. I saw systems of this type used as front-ends to larger systems*, so there would generally be (at most) one hard drive and no other devices.
I had to buy an adapter to attach it to my home network so I can Telnet into it.
I can open it up and show you what's inside, but there's not much in it.
* Sort of like having a number of web servers as the front-end to a central database server.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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You would have loved the machines I first programmed; I had to build them before I could program them. SN74181 ALU, SN74xx registers and flip flops, AND, OR, NOR and NAND gates, and lots of SN7406 inverters made a computer. Then we had to make up a command set, and program the control store in diode arrays. DIP switches and LEDs were the I/O. Later it got easier when they introduced the Altair 8800.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I knew an excellent lady programmer in college. Her favorite "other subject" was sex, so I found her very interesting!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And I've met more than one geek type chick, they're boring.
Wanna see a girl in IT who has a geeky and wild sides? Come here.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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harold aptroot wrote: the Force.
I disagree. The Force will be too busy ogling and soon enough, they will cease to be a Force.
modified 8-Aug-14 12:55pm.
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MehGerbil wrote: Why do girls need to be in programming?
Because he wants one for a BFF.
Jeremy Falcon
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