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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom".
What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings).
Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thanks for the tip! I know what to watch next now! 
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Cp-Coder wrote: Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Most modern historians do not believe it was an invasion, per se, but rather a surge of armed settlers spread over considerable time, who were eventually assimilated into the resident population.
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Very interesting! Listening to it now. Many thanks!
By the way: It streams perfectly to the USA.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: Did the German Saxons really invade England?
No. As far as I know, they came as hired goons and were loyal to the death. As long as the guys who hired them kept their end of the bargain. If not, no matter why, things very quickly got violent.
Cp-Coder wrote: Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest?
Yep. And they would not have been satisfied with that if things had gone according to their plans.
"If we had not won the war, we would all be speaking German now." Far too late. That already happened more than a thousand years ago.
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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Uhtred son/brother/father of Uhtred! Destiny is all!
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Ha.. I understand why Wessex is the last part of the map in Valhalla now! 
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OMG! This show makes me wants to play Assassin Creed Valhalla once again! 
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I've been struggling for days to get my parallel display working.
I even gave up on it and deleted the code in frustration.
I rewrote it today, and once I got it compiling it worked the FIRST TIME.
This is no joke because it's like this
ili9341 driver -> generic display driver code -> raw 8 bit parallel software driver -> display
And all of it had to work in order for anything to show up at all.
Who's a superstar?
*beams*
Real programmers use butterflies
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Nice, I just gave you beer in celebration of that impossibility
Oh no, what have I done? I'm 16, so I'm underage...
"FBI OPEN UP!!!"
Sorry guys gotta run!!!
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That's not what the FBI does.
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Awesome!
It's been maybe 20 years since I had a significant chunk of code work the first time, and that was because it was so painful to set up our test environment that I would carefully inspect my code before checking it in, untested. It occasionally bit me in the butt, but we had source code patching 40 years ago, so it was only a big deal to chronic whiners. Nowadays, it's so easy to debug that I've gotten sloppy!
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Doesn't that feel good.
Especially with a rewrite in anger.
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Ha the good old rewrite from scratch trick!
Works quite well once you know the problem well, which you did!
Congratulations!
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It is not an article. At best, it is a tip. If you want to see an article to compare yours against, read any of OriginalGriff's works, or Sergey Kryukov's works, or many others.
At most, your writing is a tip on a fun way to play with the 'Turtle' in python. You assume your readers know what the 'Turtle' is, which is not the case. You don't describe what the code does - it is more of a code dump. The writing could be greatly improved by giving a little background on the turtle, showing pictures of it and what your code does to it. It could also benefit from a better overview of what you learned during the creation of the code, and how it introduced you to Python programming.
Best wishes improving it, and creating more fun content!
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Okay, thanks. I will fix that later. Don't know why I didn't think of that.
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Hello and Welcome
You appear to have a good start towards your career and the most important thing is to keep learning. This is a good place to learn, many experienced and professional programmers with many years of experience ready and willing to help a young beginner such as yourself.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Thank you. Just wanted some info for what I need to do and if I am on the right track.
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I will try to post it at noon GMT.
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A new laptop will soon arrive to replace one that is over 5 years old. I'll then have the problem of migrating everything (software and files) to the new laptop.
Both laptops are Dells, running Windows 10. What would you recommend for doing the migration?
The last time, I recall using Laplink PC Mover Professional and an ethernet cable. Neither laptop has a built-in ethernet port, and I don't want to buy a second adapter, so I'd probably use a USB cable this time. I could use Laplink's software again, but it only works with a USB cable that you have to buy from them at a stupid price. Annoying, so I wanted to see if anyone had other suggestions.
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Take the chance and continue with a fresh and clean laptop and forget the old trash 
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Quote: 0x01AA wrote: continue with a fresh and clean laptop and forget the old trash
I actually second this.
I also followed this path when upgrading - installed stuff on the go, as soon as I noticed I needed it. Not beforehand. At first sight it looks like you'll miss a lot of stuff (like *really* a lot), and are more busy installing than working, but it pays of in the long run.
Now I only have stuff on my laptop that I really need (i.e. no more Visual Studio, no more IIS-sh*t, which saves me tons of gigabytes). If needed, I can always RDP into my main machine (let's face it: how many times did you work in the last couple of years when there was no internet connection? For me: almost none. There you go).
I now enjoy a lightweight laptop. Until the next upgrade, that is 
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I'll strongly second the second. It's amazing how much stuff from your old machine you think you'll need, but you won't. At least, that's been my experience.
The only thing I'd add would be to make sure you have a full backup of all personal files from the old laptop. Personally, I'm comfortable with them on OneDrive or Google Drive (both companies know everything about me already). Then, start fresh on the new machine and just pull files down as needed.
It is a very freeing experience.
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