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Agreed, perhaps even maybe machine language.
Learning assembly might also resolve the issue of programming without "goto". 
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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I liked the IT curriculum I had in college in the late 1980s. The course sequence began with Pascal; the instructors acknowledged that it had little commercial value but was an excellent teaching language for the basic concepts of structured programming. After that came an "overview" course, which had students learn how to write simple "Hello, world" level programs in the languages that were in current use (for me, it was JCL, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG and C.) After those two intro classes (which could be taken concurrently), students would branch out according to their major and interests.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why, Lisp of course. Doesn't *everyone* know that
Nope not lisp. Paint! 
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JavaScript.
Empire of the Dev world in future.
Nothing is Impossible for Willing Heart.
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Spam. By far. Learn Spam.
And, you can eat it, too!
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Paul Hellyer, who has long insisted that aliens have visited Earth for many years, says that when aliens saw the atomic bomb they decided that we were a great threat to the cosmos. There you go, Fermi Paradox solved
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Who do you think makes iphones then? (Not area 51) 
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Cake-mix was also invented in the 40's, which is used far more often than atomic bombs.
So there's no reason for those aliens to be so judgemental.
Who do they think they are anyway? They crawled out of an ocean just like us, only because it was on the planet zrltyfloop doesn't make them special.
Anyway, if I was from a hyper advanced tool-making species I wouldn't 'give' my tech to a less advanced species because it's disrespectful and we could potentially benefit a lot more from each other if we evolved separately.
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WorldWide Telescope is an observatory on your desktop, allowing you to see the sky in a way you have never seen it before through individual exploration; multi-wavelength views; stars and planets within context to each other; the ability to zoom in and out; and the capability to create, search and view guided tours of the universe. "Eppur si muove."
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Huh. Microsoft actually did something cooler than Google for once? Amazing.
Marc
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"At least some external executives who discussed the CEO job with Microsoft directors have expressed concerns about being hamstrung if the two men continue to serve on the board, according to people familiar with their thinking," report Ovide and Lubin. Discuss
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What everyone is ignoring is the elephant. Times have changed, and Microsoft is moving, if not to the sidelines, then certainly off stage-center. It's all just part of a natural life cycle, and that's what any new CEO is really going to have to contend with -- gently lowering the expectations of employees, shareholders, and the stock market to more realistic expectations that we would expect from a "mature", perhaps "over-the-hill" company.
Heh. Did I just call Microsoft over-the-hill? Yep!
Marc
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It just became the rock star with the introduction of .NET 1.0 ten years ago, fading so quickly?
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If you’re looking to land a new job in 2014, you have to stand out from the crowd. Your resumé should pop. How do you achieve that? Stop using buzzwords — words that are overused to the point where they mean absolutely nothing. I was responsible for organizational-driven strategic creativity
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The trending partnership of optimizational keyword components to parallel one's achievements brings understanding to the developing senses of management seeking prospective solvers.
All words in the sentence above taken from the CodeProject.com home page at the writing of this message.
That is, ya don't hafta go far for new buzzwords to put into yer resume!
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Seattle-based Code Fellows is asking experienced devs to explain how they originally learned to code in an effort to help those interested in the field. One semi-colon at a time
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Listings pages at the back of computer magazines - does anything like that exist now?
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Oh wow, I had forgotten about those.
I remember typing in a basic program for measuring race times for a sports carnival at school. I never did find out if it worked. Come to think of it, my QA skills may not have improved much
I am not sure what the modern equivalent would be, and I'm pretty glad I can just copy and paste now.
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I agree: I loved those.
Sadly, I think the modern equivalent is "Need codez plz"
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: does anything like that exist now?
Sure, it's called Stack Overflow.
But why look further than CP, when there are thousands of articles, and ever since the nifty feature to peruse article code online, I no longer need to download the zip file!
Marc
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I think there was something about actually having to type in the code (No copy-paste) that made the knowledge stick (or maybe I was just younger and had more brain cells).
I think the nearest now would actually be PluralSight...
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In a paper pre-published on arXiv, a pair of actual physics professors detail their exhaustive efforts to canvass the Internet for evidence of time travelers. Drs. Robert J. Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson of Michigan Technological University had me at the first line of the abstract: "Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers." But of course, that's just the way they want you to think
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Why would time travelers visit now? Isn't it reasonable to assume that they visit periods before now? Mightn't many of the hooligans at Woodstock have been time travelers? If I got a time machine that's when I'd go.
Edit: Come to think of it... time travelers now have that document as a guide of what not to do.
modified 5-Jan-14 18:26pm.
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With all the people that claim to have attended Woodstock, I think more than a few of them probably were time travellers.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Come to think of it... time travelers now have that document as a guide of what not to do.
Dun dun DUN!! I think you might be on to something there.
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