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MrWooster · 04-21-2011, 09:06 AM

Ye, that could be really interesting. Had a quick look at poker eval and that seems to be a pretty solid piece of software, but could be an interesting project to get a 2p2 one on the go.

Gullanian · 04-21-2011, 12:55 PM

I think I came up with a pretty decent idea for a CAPTCHA, what do you guys think of it?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com...ea-for-captcha

Pretty sure that basic theory could be improved upon quite a lot as well.

kyleb · 04-21-2011, 02:13 PM

http://programmers.stackexchange.com...ters-recursion

lol

Read the comment: "Duplicate of this question?"

Neil S · 04-21-2011, 02:57 PM

Used to be the ability to work with pointers was the gateway to programming.

Now so much programming these days is abstracted away from that...

tercet · 04-21-2011, 08:15 PM

Question for everyone..

Im 24 just finished school with a cs program.. Mix of B/C's for marks... Have decent resume with some programming/support exp summer job at sears canada it office & other stuff.

The schools program had a wide variety of subjects taught like c, c++, sql/oracle, java, c#/asp, php, java, AS 400, & others...

The question now honestly is I still dont have much of a clue whiich field to start off in with a job..

Anyone else with some stories/tips/advice after graduation where u started off?

thx

Neil S · 04-21-2011, 08:26 PM

Get involved in the open source community. Find something useful to work on, that will benefit you, that you can also use to learn. Learn how to engineer software in the wild, learn how to work with a team and follow established policies and practices, and just simply get more familiar with the skills you should already have learned.

gaming_mouse · 04-21-2011, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil S

Used to be the ability to work with pointers was the gateway to programming.

Now so much programming these days is abstracted away from that...

you mean back in those days all that pointer nonsense abstracted people away from real programming? :P

in defense of your low-level mechanics love, i came across this yesterday, which was pretty disappointing to me because i've been really digging learning haskell:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...e-with-haskell

(see the 2nd answer)

Neil S · 04-21-2011, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

you mean back in those days all that pointer nonsense abstracted people away from real programming? :P

in defense of your low-level mechanics love, i came across this yesterday, which was pretty disappointing to me because i've been really digging learning haskell:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...e-with-haskell

(see the 2nd answer)

Heh. No, I'm a big believer in powerful languages. I love Ruby.

But sometimes it's fun and refreshing to do something at a basic level. I remember when I first started doing PHP for pay. I ended up doing a side project of writing a simple music engine for the NES. 6502 asm all the way.

kyleb · 04-22-2011, 04:56 PM

I have a giant relational database of minor league baseball information that is going to be processed via some ETL scripts of mine into a warehouse, but I'm thinking about learning how to do this in NoSQL / SimpleDB. Anyone have some good tutorials or pointers for me? I'd like to pick up some new technologies/concepts, and SimpleDB sounds like it was designed exactly for this purpose.

The front-end will be interfacing with the DB in PHP and possibly Ruby in the near future if that matters, though I assume I can get it out of there via RESTful commands in JSON, which is fine.

Gullanian · 04-22-2011, 08:12 PM

Shameless geek brag just hit 10k rep on stackoverflow

Benholio · 04-22-2011, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gullanian

Shameless geek brag just hit 10k rep on stackoverflow

:thumbsup:

Nice. I got not quite to 1k while I was working on a WPF app at work and keeping up with the WPF questions.

Gullanian · 04-22-2011, 08:27 PM

I've learmt such a ridiculous amount in such a short time on that site, it's an incredible resource

TheIrishThug · 04-22-2011, 08:30 PM

Nice work.

Thanks to a bounty win yesterday, I'm almost half way to 10k. However, my short term goal is getting a 7 more C# upvotes to give my my 3rd bronze tag badge.

Gullanian · 04-22-2011, 08:36 PM

nice bounties are pretty hard to get, what q was it?

TheIrishThug · 04-22-2011, 08:42 PM

Optimize Android application before release
I kind of just got lucky that I was the first one to show up and suggest that he just profile it. And then some quick googling to find a good link. The bounty was offered after my and the next top answer were posted.

Funny side note: I've never done any work with Android.