Originally posted by zeitghost
Badly done IT just costs money, a few jobs perhaps...and in some projects, e.g. CSA, tax credits etc only deprives people of enough money to buy food and things.
Not quite the same I guess?
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Quite true. But then badly done electrical and gas work can quickly cost people their lives.
Badly done IT just costs money, a few jobs perhaps...and in some projects, e.g. CSA, tax credits etc only deprives people of enough money to buy food and things.
Not quite the same I guess?Last edited by Joe Black; 5 October 2006, 21:19. -
Originally posted by zeitghost
Seemed to despise pointers also.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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I wrote something like that once. Didn't believe it would work, but it did.Originally posted by ChurchillComment
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If you can think and solve problems logically and sometimes laterally then you can become a good programmer. Any code language is only a tool that can be learnt, intelligence can't be.
I was taught programming in the forces and we had to go on a very intensive course. I had until then had no interest in computers and I was forced to go on this course. There was one guy there who knew everything about Basic and Pascal and openly sneered at my almost nonexistent keyboard skills. The look on his face at the end of the course when I gained a significantly higher grade than him was a picture. He knew all the syntax and constructs but had no ability to use them.
I started programming on an Elliot 920 in octal machine code when a patch was just that, a paper tape patch of holes that was 'patched' onto the original paper tape. Oh the joy of searching through the link-memory maps for an empty area of memory in which to put the modifications.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Sh it! Caught again!Originally posted by zeitghostComment
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth.Originally posted by zeitghostIt's taken until now to figure out that the left & right motors in the buggy thing I'm working on are transposed.
It's a wunnerful thing hardware...
Thought it was a bit bizarre.
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If you get it wrong in either you might find yourself sampling the delights or otherwise of the local mortuary, that and you have to spend no longer wondering if there is a God or not.Originally posted by zeitghostComment
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Shouldn't there be an "however improbable" bit in there?Originally posted by expatComment
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Originally posted by zeitghostIt's taken until now to figure out that the left & right motors in the buggy thing I'm working on are transposed.
It's a wunnerful thing hardware...
Thought it was a bit bizarre.
Dont forget to leave that little feature in for your students. Should keep them on their toes
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