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Submission + - Learning to program 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: So one of my kids is 13, and is showing quite an interest in computers. Not explicitly invoked by me, I now know what a dumb subject computing is as a career :D I think thougth the time has come that he should start learning to program, and learn some of the basics that are all too often overlooked nowdays. But where do you start these days? I taught myself C with a copy of K&R and a compiler that fitted on a floppy, but it was really geeky stuff at that time just to get a computer to do anything. Nowdays where do you start? Like most kids of his age he does not even know what a command line prompt is. And everything has to be super flashy or they are just not interested. Anybody any suggestions for what toolchains could be suitable for getting a modern 13 year old on the trail?
Businesses

Submission + - Work Unhappy or Move On?

Submitted by Smidge207
Smidge207 writes: "I grew up around in the suburbs of NY and went to college in a relatively different area (upstate NY). After graduating last year, I took a job in the area where I went to college. I started in July, and was given a relocation package contingent on me staying for a year. Since August, I haven't been happy with the area I have been living in and have actively been pursuing employment back in the city. What am I better off doing: Is it better to be miserable with money, work experience, and health insurance; or going home and being happy, but unemployed? In December, the program I was working on got canceled and my manager didn't want to commit me to something long-term, with the knowledge that I didn't plan on staying more than six months. He made me a time-based offer (probably expiring soon) that he'd take every effort to get the relocation payback waived if I were to resign, find an internal transfer, or another job. I had a couple of interviews a month ago, but nothing else has happened, and this uncertainty (with the pressure of having to make this decision) has made the last two weeks really hellish."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Left 4 Dead 2 Announced at E3 with Trailer (kotaku.com)

Submitted by
hansamurai
hansamurai writes: "Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at E3 by Microsoft and a trailer for the game has surfaced. The game will be released November 17, 2009, just a year after the first. Gameplay changes include a new focus on melee weapons, especially the iconic anti-zombie weapon, the chainsaw. The cast of characters is brand new but appears to take place during the same zombie outbreak."

Comment Hypothetical interview (Score 1) 197

by James Skarzinskas (#28170669) Attached to: A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave

A sickening depravity beyond words, beyond recognition. My fingers quivered - I could barely hold my pen to paper; the mere presence of this twisted human perversion was enough to chill my bones. A squeaky phlegm accompanied my nervous stutter, "What, what, how do you even think? What demented trauma's going on in that head of yours?"

"Spam", he gruffly coughed, staring at me through a fisheye lens into reality reserved only for psychopaths and Apple fanboys, an intermittent twitch pulsing his left eyelid, "is not a problem."

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