Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Semicolons 9
Almost all the coding I've done in the last couple years or so was in Python.
I finished my first homework assignment for my Android class and started the second. The first required zero programming and the only files I edited were xml. For the second assignment I'm doing something a little more ambitious and actually writing a little Java. Stinking semicolons. I keep forgetting those little buggers.
I mentioned the IDE thing - holy cow have they gotten more useful. When I want to use some library I just start typing in what I want in the code and a quick keystroke automagically adds the import. Good gravy. The UI editor - if I add a hard coded string - a couple mouse clicks and it generates the necessary entry in the strings.xml file for me. I don't even have to go look at it. It's weird. It takes me back to my old VB 6.0 days.
On the up side with the semicolon - at least I use a US keyboard. On the Hungarian keyboard it requires using ctrl+alt along with another key.
Moo (Score:1)
UIs becoming mildly useful after only decades of no imagination gives me hope yet once again for flying cars.
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The Android platform changes so rapidly I think of it as a really helpful crutch. I use google a lot too. Some of the documentation is good - but other times I need to watch some tutorials to get a better feel for things. Though this is very much a reflection of my lack of coding skills not so much a commentary on the quality of the documentation.
I did just see a picture of a flying car earlier today though - let me see if I can find it. I found it. It's a video and just a concept but it's still cool I thin
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Nice.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-sno-melter-1960-512626160/1494194980 [gizmodo.com]
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I admit to having a rather different opinion regarding semicolons, but that's only because I use them in a very different context.
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I think of you whenever I think about punctuation. :)
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I'm talking about language and literature, not coding. The semicolon is my favorite punctuation mark. I even wrote a poem about it: "Ode to the Semicolon" [tonynoland.com] .
I also use semicolons when I write novels like "Verbosity's Vengeance" [amazon.com] .
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Well done!