Comment Re:Flawed theory (Score 2, Funny) 281
Actually, he said it tastes as if it uses water from the Hudson river. Anything after that can only be an improvement, denatonium benzoate and the sceptic tank included included.
Actually, he said it tastes as if it uses water from the Hudson river. Anything after that can only be an improvement, denatonium benzoate and the sceptic tank included included.
Camera goes back through the tubes
But what if the tubes are clogged!?
I'll give you the typo forgivement; however F6 is most browsers will automatically focus the address bar (and select all the text, so when you begin typing it will delete what is currently there). F8 for Opera. Some other browsers may have different hotkeys, but F6 seems pretty universal to me. This is easier than your method depending on what you have your broswer do on open new tab (speed dial, blank page, homepage (which may or may not be a search engine)).
What I want to know is, since Firefox will, say, go to yahoo if you just type "yahoo" into the address bar.. if it does this through interally using a search engine, does that count towards how often that word has been searched for? That would mean that searches for yahoo, facebook, etc make a lot more sense.
There is a stop button. The "go" button to the right of the omnibar doubles as a stop button when a webpage is loading. It is a little counter intuitive being so far away from refresh, but it is there and definately not hidden.
I like Chrome, but I don't use the most recent stable release - I use Chromium and DL the newest nightly build every few days. I use it if I'm just doing some fast browsing, or searching (I love being able to enter a website and search it at the same time from the omnibar), because I find it to open faster and be generally more responsive than Firefox. I use Firefox if I am doing research/work/any browsing that involves a lot of tabs. Ad-block, Flashblock, and NoScript are two big reasons. Also is Tab-kit and All-in-one-Sidebar. Being able to put my tabs on the left and sidebar on the right, and have tabs indent in tree format, makes organizing my workspace much better with a widescreen monitor. And I don't like the lack of tab overflow in Chrome (making tabs arbitrarily small is not the way to go).
Different browsers, different functionality, different purposes. Both are equal valid, and I use both regularly.
In high school I started with QBasic, and I would certainly recommend against that. Maybe it was just my teacher, but QBasic taught nothing but bad practices (we were encouraged to use GOTO!).
However, I would personally recommend against Python as a first language. Not because I think it would be difficult, but I think the use of white space as syntax is not a good habit to introduce to beginning programmers. C can be syntax heavy for beginners, but if you actually teach what the purpose of it is, such as why you have a main function, it will get beginning programmers into hopefully good codewriting practices. Ruby is pretty clean and would be OK for beginners as well. Perl lets you get things done pretty easily, but I don't think I would recommend it over C or Ruby to start with.
Pick something that will be somewhat interesting to them, but at the same time make sure you pick something that will teach them good coding practices. They won't be happy if they need to learn how to program all over again later because of bad habits.
Oh, and stay away from VB. Besides some abnormal syntax (like 'comments), it is useful to teach something cross platform and it is always good to sart with easily portable code - your students may not use the same OS at home as you do at school.
"You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers." -- Cal Keegan