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Clifford Nelson wrote: on you signature code you should be using string.Empty, not "".
Not again 
next thing you are telling me is that if i use this.signature in the if i should use it in the messageBox also.
Why don'T you leave that code broken as it is?  
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Either string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.signature) or string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.signature) would be a better choice.
"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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I was interested in online learning in an attempt to help someone new to code.
I stumbled upon LaunchAcademy.com (a bootcamp). Costs $15,000! What?
Then, in the "what language will I learn" section there is this:
Java is one of the oldest* programming languages and is _readable on many different platforms_. This means it is easier for developers to write a string of code that can be run on just about anything.
Python, like Ruby, emphasizes readability and allows developers to create powerful programs with fewer lines of code than Java or C++. (1)
Oldest*?
Oh, right let's forget about C++, C, Ada, Fortran, COBOL, ad infinitum...
"readable on many different platforms"
Uh, you can generally read any source code on any platform. Running however...
But even worse, if you look up Java and Python on wikipedia you will see :
Python : first appeared around 1991
Java: first appeared around 1995
If I had any confidence in the $15,000 program before reading that, it was at that point that it evaporated.
(1)Launch Academy: A Full-Stack Bootcamp[^]
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Then once you sign up the course is actually about javascript.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Then once you sign up the course is actually about javascript.
LOL!!! 
Well, at least LaunchAcademy is providing the laughs.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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and to learn that javascript was first developed in the late 1800s. 
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raddevus wrote: Oh, right let's forget about C++, C, Ada, Fortran, COBOL, ad infinitum...
Other than C/C++; none of those are reasonable choices for new development; and thus irrelevant to the target audience. Python might have a few more years on the odometer; but AFAIK lingered in obscurity for a while vs Java exploding all over the place when first released.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The humor of the situation was lost on you.
You are correct about all of your points, but far less funny than the incongruity of calling Java "one of the oldest languages".
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Yeah, created by Java Man back in the day.
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Ahem. If you're doing mathematical processing, Fortran is still a fine choice today.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Ahem. If you're doing mathematical processing, Fortran is still a fine choice today.
And if you're writing financial transaction software to run on a mainframe for a large >50 year old bank, COBOL is a fine choice today. Likewise for ADA and DoD Avionics.
All're very small niches today; and poor choices to start with if you're interested in general employability within a few weeks as seems to be the main goal for bootcamp attendees.
And at that, AFAIK Python + NumPy has been steadily eroding Fortran's share of scientific computing from the bottom up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Relatively speaking C, C++ and Ada are fairly new. Around 1980. Ada was supposed to be a 4th generation language but I have yet to figure how that is true. Guess it is sort of like saying the F-35 is so much better than the F-16.
FORTRAN 1957
Ada 1980
Algol 1958
Basic 1964
C 1978
C++ 1983
COBOL 1957
APL 1964
Pascal 1970
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I still have my copy of this book from my university days - should go take a flip through it again...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: I still have my copy of this book from my university days
It has some very interesting, succinct algorithms in it.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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LISP 1958 (contemporaneous with Algol same year)
COBOL 1959 (based on Adm. Grace Hoppper's FLOW-MATIC of 1955-1959)
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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"Look: another bug. It belongs to you. You are the software guys", said Joanthan, the hardware guy. He handed the bug over to Bernie.
Bernie opened a book on entomology and searched for the chapter on Heteroptera (bugs). He took his magnifying glass to scrutinize that bug. The first steps were easy: the bug belongs to Geocorisae.
But then things became more complicated. The bug had dried during hibernation in the ceiling, and Jonathan - and also his cats - did not handle the bug with due care. Some antennas and tarsi were broken. Miridae... Atractotomus.
"OK, Ataractumus. Male or female?", Jonathan was not yet content with the answer.
"You find so many of them every day, just put them together, and watch them." "You mean you could find that out so easily? They might be gay." "Gay bugs? Never heard of that. I know homosexuality exists among mammals and birds. But gay bugs?" "Why should all bugs be straight?"
"Anyway, does that matter?" asked Bernie after a short pause. Then he opened a window and disposed of the bug.
Fortunately, Atractotomus implements IDisposable.
Unfortunately, disposed bugs might return...
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Unfortunately, disposed bugs might return...
Only if they don't head for a little snack in the garbage can and then get collected.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Monomyth - LHC[^]
Instrumental psychedelic space rock band from Den Haag (or The Hague as it's known internationally).
Read an interview, listened to their music, made them my song of the week 
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You're slipping! That's almost bearable. Overextended and lacking any genuine clue about variation, development and dynamics but almost bearable.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm pretty sure you never posted about that new Napster release...
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There wasn't one that fitted the very strict criteria. There were a couple that I liked but that's not the point. Who knows what the morrow will bring.
Meanwhile somebody in the Guardian this morning said they'd never heard of this track[^] nor its creators. I don't believe it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Meanwhile somebody in the Guardian this morning said they'd never heard of this track[^] nor its creators. I don't believe it!
I wish I'd never heard of it 
Nothing worse than a rock ballad (contradiction, ballads don't rock), music wise...
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Sander Rossel wrote: Nothing worse than a rock ballad
Aww, c'mon! Don't you wanna take a little time, time to think things over? You really don't wanna miss a thing!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: You really don't wanna miss a thing!
I want to miss rock ballads
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