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Naturally I remember my first Adventure in Colossal Cave.
Not the date. Probably 1976 after 11 pm in the computer center.
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Been there, done that. Since 1979. Weirdly enough, so has my wife, who is an accountant, not a software person.
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In 1978, "Adventure" was the first game I ran on my (then) newly built Heathkit H8 computer -- built while I was an undergrad at a regional campus of Purdue. It's been so long that I can't remember where I got the executable that ran it. I'm not sure if I bought it or if it was freeware from some "dial-up" BBS downloaded at 300 baud on my acoustic coupler modem. Ever since I first set up my home Wi-Fi ages ago, its SSID has been "XYZZY." I'm quite sure none of my neighbors get the reference.
I feel so old. Of course, that's because... I am old.
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Not seen any comments from Nagy for a while.
Hope he's ok...
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He's still active on xitter (:spit:), but he hasn't posted here in just over a year.
"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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"x" makes the "sh" sound?
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Indeed.
"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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Fergus Donaldson wrote: Not seen any comments from Nagy for a while. The Gyn shops miss him too... A LOT
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nagy's doing okay. He's still a happy worker bee.
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I'm fine, just busy on things.
watches another deadline flying past<
veni bibi saltavi
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Hello people, my name is Emmanuel Katto and I'm from Uganda. I wanted to learn Java can anyone help me in learning Java language?
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The official documentation is probably a good place to start:
The Java™ Tutorials[^]
"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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Here is an online tutorial that allows you to compile examples in the browser:
Java Tutorial[^]
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Thank you so much for providing the guide.
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I learnt Java from here.
https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS106A
Though this series is dated, this is indeed a great way to learn programming in general. There may be few syntax differences between this and today's Java. But the concepts sink in for sure.
Many of my juniors have also thoroughly liked the way of teaching here.
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Amarnath S wrote: Though this series is dated
So is java
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What i meant was that Java would have had so many deprecations since then. Though there may be many syntax changes, the concepts do remain same.
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Yes Java is getting long in the tooth, but I nevertheless enjoyed learning it. AND: It caused me the gravitate to learn programming Android apps (through the Kotlin language) and that was even more fun! Now Lenovo is going to bring out desktops that run on Android! Will the fun never stop?
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Has no idea about this reduced. (8)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Clueless ?
This = clue
reduced = less
Has no idea = Clueless
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 27-Oct-23 5:15am.
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YAUM! Care to edit in the explanation?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Should that be
this == clue
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😊
Tricky!
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I'm currently moving all of my professional and hobby project development over to the ARM Cortex family of platforms.
ARM Cortex M7 > ESP32
Microsoft is doing similar with their operating system.
Apple already has, with the M1 and m2, AFAIK.
ARM > Intel
There's no getting around that x86 is showing its age architecturally. Even discounting all the ancient backward compatibility, like "real mode", it's getting awkward.
I read this thread with some interest. Aside from some disagreements in the comments, overall it was very interesting, if taken with a grain of salt.
the_end_for_isa_x86[^]
One nice advantage for me is the ARM Cortex architecture is largely continuous from their little M0 real time chips all the way up to their multicore A line.
That means I can create code that will perform well across little devices and PCs.
This also has to be a huge win for developers of phone and tablet applications, that their work is more transferable to future PCs now.
The fact that ARM doesn't manufacture is also a huge win. They leave fabrication to outfits like NXP. ARM just designs chips. I read somewhere that their time to market for a new offering is about half that of Intel's.
Start moving your stock.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 27-Oct-23 10:01am.
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