javathrowaway

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   by javathrowaway 10y ago

   I feel obliged to mention this talk by Zed Shaw: https://vimeo.com/53062800 It gives an overview and interpretation of a body of neuroscience research in the context of teaching programming. I can't quite summarize the
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   by javathrowaway 10y ago

   Yeah, and how do you store NUL chars in those C strings then? The answer is you can't. Because prefix-length strings (Pascal) are far better than null-terminated (C) strings.
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   by javathrowaway 10y ago

   You asked for feedback, and here it goes: I couldn't run your applet on my machine. It's not my intent to attack the choice of Java, but I can't avoid noticing that Java applets as a web technology are getting seriously obsol