Yeah, a really short LIST of programming languages do TCO properly...

I don't know about the compiler KatoKrazy is using though.

I love how he's the head of IT or whatever and he still has the default "hide file extensions" turned on.

Scala can optimize tail recursion at compile time. List just got 33% longer.

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+1, WB is better for group sessions. If I work alone I go A4.

All my books are full of highlights and notes. I usually use yellow for regular highlighting, pink for sources, orange for definitions/terms and scribble a lot in the margins. I usually draw additional separation lines --- and mark stuff with I, II, III etc. and use a --- --- box with a downward arrow to mark examples.

Even pretty average income folks live like kings of past ages (actually way better) due to technical advances.

I'm not sure everyone can effectively substitute lots of pixels for low population densities.

Oh man, I find highlighting seriously distracting. Nothing is worse than getting a used book with highlights and writing all over it.

I have weirdness about paper. I don't even like it folded paper. Writing paper is fine to write on (but not fold!), but a book is sacred.

I just jot down a lot of notes. This allows me to interact with the book and let the points sink in better. I have a stack of notebooks up to my ears.

I used to have this "books are sacred" mindset as well. I think it's pretty hard to explain actually. Some day I just grabbed a bunch of pens and tried highlighting/taking notes (used a book I didn't value all that highly, iirc some behavioural economics pop-science book). Now even my fine leather binding books are full of highlights and notes. I don't sell books.

Highlighting and taking notes in the margins serves the same purpose for me as your jotting down notes. Even if I'd never read the book again I soak up the info a lot better if I highlight stuff. But I do "reread" stuff occasionally and highlighting comes in very handy. Since I'm on vacation now I've read through a couple of books on negotiation and psychology and it takes about 30 minutes to refresh the entire content. I forget things that I don't apply very quickly but with highlighted books I can usually refresh 300-500 page books in 30 minutes and then reread in depth if need be.

I have a note in Trello to write a "write in your books" blogpost that is >1 year old now...maybe after the xmas days

One class I just finished, I noticed a guy who sat there, each and every class, with his book open, highlighting as the teacher lectured.

Turned out to be a good strategy as the teacher never talked about anything that wasn't in the book.

As I'm going back thru my c++ book I really wish I'd highlighted those juicy little tidbits and tips that I'm now having to scan entire chapters for. I'm moving all the good stuff, as well as info about libraries and syntax into a mind map. I know Google usually gives the answer I want pretty quickly, but having related info all around it, as well as any useful tips, seems like such a good idea.

I'm having an argument with my girlfriend that I need your guys feedback on. I plan on taking a couple of the basic CS courses at college this semester so that if I do decide I want to do some kind of CS degree I've got the lame basics out of the way. To get the pre req for one of the CS classes waived I had to prove to the professor that I know java to the level of someone who had taken an intro to Java class. He emailed me back his feedback on my program.

One of the classes in the program was about 150 lines of code. This is an equivalent snippet from that program

One of the mistakes I was told I made is that I had a blank like on line 78. Which would be one of the two empty lines of code between these methods instead of just one empty line.

I said it was crazy that that was being pointed out as a mistake, and my GF says that I just don't understand how academia works, and since I don't have a job programming that I don't know how it is for jobs either. I maintain that its still crazy in both environments. And even more crazy because this isnt an actual assignment and was just to show the professor whether or not I know java.

So I thought I would ask here, since I know there are both lots of people who code every day for a living and who have degrees and people who are currently taking CS classes in college.

Am I wrong?

Lol professor imo

Lots of nits out there. I know professionally there are people that are really dogmatic about adhering to some style guide exactly.

The professor calling attention to it is fine if it's a warning or you have lots of style issues. Not knowing style guidelines can be indicative of not knowing other basics or best practices, but I would just assume it's a typo if it's one of only a couple instances.

Without extra spaces all over the place, hard to get worked up about.

Does extra white space even matter in Java? Would the compiler throw an error?

If not, I can't see this even being caught if it was at work.

blank lines dont matter at all, it wont cause any errors. My understanding is its just readability and there isn't even a standard best practice to adhere to. It should just be consistent across the program or project based on the style of whoever is making it. Like if I was working somewhere and they put 2 lines between each method, then I should always put 2 lines.

Just seemed massively "lol, wtf" to me to point that out as an error

Confirmed gigantic lol. IMO reveals that professor has never worked outside of academia.

Apparently right before I started there was a pretty big discussion at my work about 'style'. In my opinion, all that really matters is picking something that makes sense and then being consistent.

100% not wrong.

Nitting it up about something like this is huge red flag, either in academia or on the job. If someone said, "Hey, this is a little thing, but we're pretty strict about following style guide X, and there should be only 1 blank line here..." that would be fine. Saying it's "wrong" is insane and your professor is outing himself as a schoolmarm who cannot possibly have his head on straight about what's important in programming and what's not.

+1. Professor is full on ******ed, I expect better even from academia.

At my old job, the only meetings that were worse than style meetings were meetings about the correct branching strategy.

I mostly agree with this. But I will say it's nice to see schools at least try to teach code formatting. No developer worth a crap has messy code (that I've ever met).

Sometimes we get offshore developer code with all kinds of random extra blank lines and it's pretty ugly. If I put two blank lines it's rare and for a reason - to separate logical blocks. Never 3.

Btw we've had two more prospective JavaScript devs miserably fail the easy part of the sudoku (as we call it) exercise: Create an object that represents an n*n grid, with each cell containing a random integer from 1 to n*n. The second part involves rendering it in angular.

Like they couldn't even build the grid, much less populate it with random integers. One guy made 2 1d arrays (which he called vertArray and horizArray) and was putting random numbers in each. The other guy I gave it to as a homework assignment and he came back with some giant object with a bunch of methods that is such a weird misinterpretation I have no idea what he was even thinking. He had nothing random anywhere in it, nor did he ever build a grid.

It's a seller's market out there. If any of the crack JS/CSS devs it are in LA (or you know any), and looking for a job - let me know.

thanks guys. I made my GF read about how I wasnt wrong I have a feeling this class which should be super easy cuz it's stuff I already know, is going to end up being a giant pain in the ass :/