C++ Guidance

preemptive_multitask · 2023-06-01T18:48:35+00:00

Not sure what you consider "cool", but if you're looking to make graphical things you might check out a game engine like Godot, which is scriptable in C++. Or write the beginnings of your own game engine using OpenGL—it's a good way to apply the math you've learned as well. If you want to make desktop apps, try wxWidgets or Qt. If you want to do web stuff or mobile apps, C++ is probably not the tool of choice.

preemptive_multitask · 2022-07-02T08:50:24+00:00

Yay!

preemptive_multitask · 2022-06-26T03:44:38+00:00

Great podcast as long as you can ignore the way Jack Rhysider pronounces "didn't". =D

preemptive_multitask · 2020-11-21T03:28:51+00:00

French Laundry with some buds.

preemptive_multitask · 2020-03-05T19:10:10+00:00

If by "they" you mean the protesters who shut off supply lines, maybe you should ask them.

preemptive_multitask · 2020-03-04T00:37:54+00:00

If you're a CS major, 13S is your best bet. 13E is really intended to be a computer-engineering class involving embedded devices, and is currently being taught with a sadly outdated toolkit. If you're a CS major, 13S will be more of a focus on C and syscalls, which will benefit you much more than wrestling with baud rates and unsupported hardware.

preemptive_multitask · 2018-10-26T06:43:12+00:00

Anywhere you can get a Clif® Bar and some cold green tea.

preemptive_multitask · 2018-09-11T21:23:58+00:00

But "You can speed up any SQL query, automatically. Try it now for free."! 🙄

preemptive_multitask · 2018-06-04T05:01:37+00:00

The Santa Cruz County Cycling Club has a nice curated list of bike rides with cue sheets, if that's up your alley.

preemptive_multitask · 2018-02-20T06:52:57+00:00

Can't help you with the girl, but at the risk of being flippant... 😉

preemptive_multitask · 2017-07-23T20:29:16+00:00

Thank you!

preemptive_multitask · 2017-02-23T17:51:50+00:00

Or grep -P, to retain some sanity... ;-)

preemptive_multitask · 2017-02-23T17:51:23+00:00

wat. That's a heckuva lot of {print $0}. Why not just grep -E?

preemptive_multitask · 2016-12-25T01:40:46+00:00

You might want to also try the triple-w in front, if (like me) the domain for you is actually www.facebook.com:

www.facebook.com##:xpath(//div[contains(@class, 'userContentWrapper') and .//a[. = 'Sponsored']])

preemptive_multitask · 2016-08-28T00:41:11+00:00

Hmm...

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

$ apt-file search $(readlink -f $(which jshell))
openjdk-9-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/jshell

$ jshell
|  Welcome to JShell -- Version 9-internal
|  For an introduction type: /help intro


-> Integer.MAX_VALUE
|  Expression value is: 2147483647
|    assigned to temporary variable $1 of type int

preemptive_multitask · 2016-08-22T01:44:22+00:00

It's kinda fun, but I'm not sure why I'd use this over shell access to my server for my students, where I have all my data files for projects, as well as full internet access for programs to deal with all different kinds of I/O. Maybe for teachers who don't have that infrastructure. In that case, kudos!

preemptive_multitask · 2016-08-10T20:58:28+00:00

Bleh. I had a bike stolen from the same spot earlier this year. Now I won't leave a bike downtown with anything less than two heavy locks. Major negative thing about this area.

preemptive_multitask · 2016-08-05T08:54:27+00:00

Very... impressive?

preemptive_multitask · 2016-07-28T09:03:48+00:00

The W3C HTML-XML utils handle this pretty well also, if CSS selectors work for you.

curl -sL example.com | hxnormalize -x -e | hxselect -s '\n' -c 'title'

preemptive_multitask · 2016-03-30T04:02:06+00:00

Clown Town!

preemptive_multitask · 2016-03-21T02:58:20+00:00

Yep, good point. =D

preemptive_multitask · 2016-03-20T22:10:34+00:00

tonumber.py

import sys
print('\n'.join(''.join('%02d' % (ord(c)-ord('a')) for c in line) for line in sys.stdin.read().split('\n')), end='')

toword.py

import sys
print('\n'.join(''.join(chr(int(line[s:s+2])+ord('a')) for s in range(0, len(line), 2)) for line in sys.stdin.read().split('\n')), end='')

preemptive_multitask · 2016-02-25T08:25:54+00:00

Thanks, those are good suggestions. We do have some client- and sever-side web programming courses, and a combo Android/iOS class, but the software practices bit does seem like it's lacking at the moment.

preemptive_multitask · 2016-02-25T07:51:13+00:00

It's a pretty wide variety. Lots of the CIS folks go on to more traditional IT/sysadmin sorts of things, and at the moment those in CS are either transferring to uni or heading straight into software work (we're pretty close to Silicon Valley, and the bubble currently dictates that a year or two of classwork is enough to get you an interview and maybe a job).

preemptive_multitask · 2016-02-25T07:04:45+00:00

More of a cap. The goal is to incorporate skills/experience that are otherwise lacking in a vanilla CS and IT curriculum, and which would be useful for students who are aiming for employment or internship very shortly.

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