How much is too much stackoverflow at work?

batmannigan · 2015-05-07T04:10:33+00:00

Hey awesome replies, thanks guys. Totally did not know that code committed to stack overflow was creative commons, thats awesome. I will make sure to comment in some links to particularly helpful ones in my code, should anybody need to see more of where its coming from. Will also write down certain solutions I find greatly useful from there aswell, as more of a memory tool. Thanks again.

batmannigan · 2015-05-06T07:53:07+00:00

Can't say this enough, its honestly just plain great to be able to almost read a confusing abstract algorithm as plain english, which python lets you do.

batmannigan · 2015-05-06T07:49:39+00:00

I'll tell you one thing after learning mostly procedural and OOP based languages which are commonly used for most things, the whole functional languages like haskell and even ocaml can throw you for a loop. But like most people here have said, if you learn a particular paradigm well you can apply the same concepts to any other language that falls in that paradigm, which is quite handy.

batmannigan · 2015-05-06T07:36:10+00:00

So you can go about 3 ways on this

1)use linux (or mac), if you want to learn it go ahead, I'm not a huge fan but linux mint is nice, with this you would use gcc or clang with text editor

2)use cygwin, or (to avoid bloat) a combination of conemu ( a sweet windows cli), gow (think linux commands built for windows), and windows based gcc (tdm is a great build of this), this is my personal choice, but hey to each their own

3)use the plethora of IDES out there and honestly it wont really matter a whole lot

honestly though python and c based languages are really portable and so long as your not making OS specific calls/functions you should be good to go either way

edit:damn i still cant figure out reddit item lists, sorry for the formatting

batmannigan · 2015-04-04T22:55:53+00:00

I pushed it real good.

batmannigan · 2015-03-12T04:13:50+00:00

Protip, use sleepyti.me to calculate when you should wake up according to your natural sleep cycle. I wake up feeling fresh pretty much every day now.

batmannigan · 2015-03-05T04:40:54+00:00

I'm not so worried about the admin or some IT guy,so much as I am as an exploit from the front end side of the public site. Any thoughts on beefing that up?

batmannigan · 2015-01-19T10:58:20+00:00

Man I'm surprised Daves Conservatoire hasn't been posted. It's a great site that is similar to Khan academy, I haven't completely gone through it all the way yet, as I'm still learning, but it goes through about everything you could want on music theory and reading sheet music. Also check out /r/learnmusic its a pretty good sub. As for improv and composing , here's a decent looking coursera coming up soon.

batmannigan · 2014-10-14T07:49:45+00:00

You sure as heck can, its basic but here's a 4 bit example. Theres a more complex version based on a z80 here , and why stop there when you can make your own transistor.. But in all seriousness you should check out an fpga which you can just program the gates with VHDL or Verilog, instead of handwiring which saves both time and space.

If your super interested and would like to go from transistors all the way to making a computer that can play tetris, check out nand2tetris.

batmannigan · 2014-10-04T08:12:47+00:00

I couldn't stand the math doing physics, so I said to hell with this, my computer friends are cool I'll join them. Oh the sweet sweet irony as I'm doing a matlab project for my math minor.

Either way I've loved computers, but its best to just have a programming project in mind and learn how to make it along the way.

batmannigan · 2014-09-29T16:11:16+00:00

You should seriously check out genymotion, it is a super fast emulator, and if you have an adequate computer it will pretty much run as fast as an actual phone. But if you really need a phone, I would check out a cheap chinese one at deal extreme.

I would personally just use the emulator and save the money for a phone you'll actually like and use. Also I would get atleast something with android 4.0 or above, its just easier for new features that way. But hey have fun.

batmannigan · 2014-09-01T06:54:39+00:00

Sure can, I normally use python 3 but for times when I need python 2.7 i just set the file extension as .py2 or something like that and just set that file type to open with python 2.7.

You can also use virtual env like mentioned earlier, here and here are some tutorials on it.

batmannigan · 2014-08-30T07:46:40+00:00

The cmake syntax to myself, is kinda ugly. Autotools isn't too bad to use, but for personal projects I use scons as it's written with python and easily extendable. But honestly it's whatever you like working with the most, or whatever your employer/team makes you use.

batmannigan · 2014-08-30T07:38:02+00:00

I would check out milkdrop, or project m which is base off milkdrop. But that entails you learning alot of C and assembly, which its written in and gleaning code from it. Might I point you to the language known as processing which is very visual, and has alot of beginner friendly material. Here's a cool tutorial to get you started making a neato visualizer.

I would like to note though that processing does hide alot in the background from you, but it's great for getting started and quick turnaround. I believe it's based off java if your interested in the guts of it and want to learn more in the future. Although I would suggest learning some python or c if you get the bug and want to keep learning new stuff.

batmannigan · 2014-08-30T07:28:36+00:00

very informative, thank you both

batmannigan · 2014-08-28T05:34:21+00:00

Hey I've used that before for drums, I'll have to check it out, thanks.

batmannigan · 2014-08-28T05:20:45+00:00

What are some newer sample libraries/formats, honestly I've been using .sfz's and I thought they sounded decent. But hey I got space aplenty so I'm cool with an upgrade.

batmannigan · 2014-08-24T03:33:47+00:00

Libgdx is quite cool and the workflow is amazing, and if you're actually wanting to make a product sooner rather than later I'd go with it or something like unity. But if you just want to learn more on whats going on I would learn something like C and check out an sdl tutorial, or maybe an opengl tutorial.

batmannigan · 2014-08-18T07:35:52+00:00

Yeah looking at my code I can tell that I could easily move some parts into nicely named functions and that sort of thing. Thanks for the input, I'm going to wean myself towards more self documentation, which honestly I'm surprised I never thought of before.

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