nuclearpidgeon - Slashdot User

Comment CS Courses (Score 1) 173

by nuclearpidgeon on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @06:19PM (#30231166) Attached to: Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses

All this talk about CS courses scared me... you almost convinced me there was an actual course in Counter-Strike.

Maybe I should go outside now.

Eidos Announces Thief 4 102

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @03:51AM from the coming-out-of-stealth dept.

An anonymous reader tips news that Eidos Montreal has confirmed recent speculation by announcing the development of a new Thief game. They've set up a website, but the project is still in its early stages, and details are scarce. In an interview with IncGamers, Eidos' Stéphane D'Astous said, "We're keeping our ear very close to the ground. As you may have noticed, we now have a forum up and running for Thief 4, and I said to my guys 'I really want to have a forum at the very early stages,' because I want people to have a medium with which they can express their wishes, their expectations, and what they would like and not like to happen with the next Thief. Obviously we've started work, but it's always very important for the developers to be close to the community. We're listening to these people because they are very hardcore fans, and we want to bring the Thief 4 franchise to a new level, so the challenges are huge!"

Comment Start off Small (Score 1) 1095

by nuclearpidgeon on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @06:54AM (#24286859) Attached to: How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming?

I am currently 14 years old. I started my programming days back in windows 3.11 land. For Christmas I got a crappy old laptop that had a broken screen, so I had to hook up a CRT fishbowl screen (why are you wincing?). From there I found a DOS 6 manual and started screwing around with colour boot menus (AUTOEXEC.BAT FTW!). From there I learnt the ins and outs of windows by 'fiddling' (In windows 3.11 I completely screwed the hard-drive during a disk compression error). I only just discovered Linux in the form of an ubuntu tutorial in the Aussie magazine Atomic MPC. This year I started IT and got my first real taste of programming with VB Express, but I had a teacher to aid with that. I'd suggest buying him a 'Programming for Dummies', 'The Complete idiots Guide to Programming' book or something like that to get him started. The original ubuntu tutorial is not on the Atomic website, but there is a new one, Linux for windows users. Look it up at www.atomicmpc.com.au

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