Comment Re:Linux foundation using MS Word?!? (Score 1) 116
That is a bit reassuring. Still, one would expect that of all places, the Linux Foundation would be on a KDE desktop using LibreOffice.
The largest advantage of Scratch is the immediate results and the mixture of multimedia content that can be done with literally just a single click of a button. It can be extended to further complexity just one or two mouse clicks at a time.
I disagree that multimedia and "click of a button" should be the goal when teaching children. Rather, I think that teaching them the computational process, and how to structure their thoughts, should be the goals.
For this, I completely disagree that Python is a viable replacement or even worse something that should be done instead of Scratch. Don't get me wrong, Python is a fine computer programming language and perhaps as a 2nd language to teach a kid it might be very useful. It is just lousy as an introductory environment for somebody in grade school or junior high school to learn the basic concepts of computer programming.
The other fun thing about Scratch that beats Python hands down is that Scratch is also multi-threaded with parallel processes happening as a major feature of the language. Kids doing stuff in Scratch don't even realize they are doing that kind of stuff until it is pointed out that some program/project they are making has nearly a dozen threads and even more event handlers being used. I don't see Python being nearly so easy to introduce such concepts.
Again, I disagree. Scratch seems to be hiding so much away that one can write a multithreaded application without realizing it? How does that teach structured thought processes? If the goal is to get whiz-bang graphics out the door quickly, the Scratch sounds great. If the goal is to teach a fun, productive hobby that could turn into a profession, then it sounds terrible. I suppose that the choice depends on one's goals.
What kind of IDE/environment are you using?
VIM. No, seriously, my eight year old uses VIM!
My first language was Logo. Couldn't do much with it, but it was fully interactive, which meant that you got immediate feedback as soon as you pressed Enter.
Perhaps that is why VIM is a good choice. In the learning stages one learns to use it, and the immediate feedback is a form of gratification if it does what you intended. And when VIM does something unexpected, we laugh and wonder what we can learn from that.
Use scratch. It's mildly obnoxious for a real programmer, but has everything you need off hand, and program flow is very easy to visualize.
Don't.
Python is a real programming language, and it is very easy to learn. My eight year old daughter started learning Python when she was seven, and she can write Hangman and other games. Note that we are writing _console_ games but we have a blast doing so. And her native language is not English, nor even use English letters, so if your child already knows the English alphabet and knows what "define", "print", and "if" mean, then he will already be at an advantage.
For kids their age, it is fun just to write a function is_cute(name) that accepts the name of someone they think is cute, and then prints "AC is cute", "timothy is cute", and so on each time it is called.
No. Any root CA (or anyone holding an intermediate CA cert with a trust chain back to a root) can sign a certificate for any domain at all.
Even worse, there is no way to know which certs you need and which you can get rid of. This question has remained open on Super User without a good answer for over half a year:
http://superuser.com/questions...
The NSA did this with RSA, as well. Well, they had to bribe RSA with $10,000 but their code went in.
Oh, and GP should become familiar with the obfuscated C contest:
http://www.ioccc.org/
The next one will be Windows Atlas.
sort of
Win95/ME bad, Win98 good, Win2k good, WinXP good, WinVista bad, Win7 good, Win8 bad
So Windows Redstone will be good, but stay away from Windows Atlas!
You've been here since '98 (beat me by a year) and you don't remember goatse? A kid is a goat offspring.
In the C# world, it's like the great masters on high give us features and we use them. This is an example of that attitude (and it's actually rather poetic, if not sickening).
Regarding that video,
If a CA clearly can't be trusted, then it has absolutely no business being trusted.
The issue is, though, why wait for the CA to go before deciding not to trust it? Why should all users in the world have Chinese, American, Iranian, Russian, and other potentially-rogue CAs trusted by their browser?
This Stack Exchange (SuperUser) question about how to know which certs to leave in and which to remove has gone without a decent answer for months:
http://superuser.com/questions...
Are you working for organised crime? Is that why you can't reoort the car stolen?
OP's incident might be related to this question on the Stack Exchange network:
http://lifehacks.stackexchange...
These are the classified voyages of the X-37B
Amusing that the classified DoD payloads are launched with an RD-180 engine.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
