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Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

one of these days i should learn to program

# ¿ May 9, 2013 14:12

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Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

why dont they teach programming in skool

# ¿ May 9, 2013 14:13

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

" man you ain't learned nuffin in skool"

-every mongoloid on the Internet

# ¿ May 9, 2013 20:08

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

Who det queen er austrailier

# ¿ May 9, 2013 20:16

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:

Sorry to all programmers out there

# ¿ May 9, 2013 20:38

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

i suck at programming guys help

# ¿ Oct 26, 2013 06:14

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

but i herd c was dumb poo poo for idiots. right in this very thread

(for real though i need to learn to program, i can only cut it so far in this science gig without it)

# ¿ Oct 26, 2013 06:30

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

JewKiller 3000 posted:

well if you're just a scientist and programming is not your main focus, then the C path may not be the best way to go

however, there is nothing dumb or for-idiots about C. your OS kernel and drivers are written in C, along with many important userland libraries and programs. virtually all modern programming languages are implemented or at least bootstrapped in C, and their foreign function interfaces use C calling conventions. C is basically portable assembly. it's the closest you can practically get to what the machine is really doing

after learning C, in many situations you may want to use a more convenient, modern programming language. but because you know C, and you know how computers actually operate, you'll understand when these other languages are appropriate. it can be hard to reason about non-trivial issues in high-level languages (especially wrt performance) without SOME understanding of their implementation, and C gives you that

Well im definitely a fan of understanding underlying systems. youve sold me. got any recommendations for learning c on an in depth level.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2013 18:58

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Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

these genes aint gonna sort them selves

# ¿ Oct 26, 2013 18:59

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