I told a teacher of mine - a university teacher, that is - how much was she full of shit. Left her classes. Best thing I did so far. Here's the backstory. When I started this year, I was in the group 501. A month later, due to the obvious imbalance of skill - I study English linguistics - between me and my peers, I transferred to the group 502, which had (mostly) its own set of teachers. One of them - the English grammar one - is a bitch, though I'd lie if I say I've never seen anyone like her. She's selfish and painfully insecure, which represented itself as her lashing out at us in the subtle yet painful for the smallest imperfection in the class. By the time I've met the teacher, I've had already quite enough of the bullshit. I grew up with it, my first girlfriend sunk me into it head-first, my first good friend was working me about that for long enough... After all that I managed to grow up emotionally thanks to all the time I had to spend on my own, in my own hands in a different city. At first, though, I decided to not go to her lessons since I didn't feel like I have the strength to confront her. At about the same time I started reading Vladimir Pozner's Parting with Illusions where he speaks his mind on a lot of things, and the way he says what he thinks - even if it's not all well thought out, true or wise - made an impression on me. I've always wanted to live like that, and I guess something clicked in me at some point. I realized that by doing nothing - nothing, that is, that I find worthy or right - I make myself into nothing, the nothing I came to be so tired of people manipulating all the time for their own selfish causes. So, I decided to speak my mind at the lesson, in front of the whole class. I was, at the same time, very afraid of doing it - I had a rush of fear right before starting to talk, and it felt like my legs might have let go if I'd let it - and wanting to do it - it felt right. One thing that kept me going through the rant was my groupmate - a girl who seems to click with me on a friendly level - smiling as she heard me speak (which the teacher could not have seen, so it was only directed at me). I didn't manage to speak my mind fully at the rant because I was still pressured by the teacher's defensive maneuvers (which, too, I recognize way too well), but still, I told a lot of stuff I couldn't bring myself to say at any earlier time in my life - about her acting like an insecure child lashing out at the defenseless students while supposed to be being an authority to us, for example - and I'm very proud of it. My groupmates seem to have gained a respect for me after the incident, which is noticable considering I rarely ever had any good conversations with them before, and we talk almost always between the classes. I feel more free and capable around all people, not just my groupmates, afterwards, which, too, is noticable and proudmaking. Makes me feel worthy, good enough despite my flaws. Now, I'm trying to path a way for myself to gain the semester mark from another grammar teacher (whom I've studied under before transferring to another group); there seems to be a good chance that it will work out fine, though it's not yet defined. At the same time, I've started coding my first incremental game based on the idea of "happening" of language. Small steps every day, and by now I already have the base of the engine ready. Cooking, washing dishes and all the other stuff don't seem to be so hard now, either. It's like I'm learning to care about myself. That's my "holy shit" week for you.
Javascript, with a pinch of jQuery for DOM control (even though I barely need it so far). It's meant to be web-based and quite simple. I'd like to touch CoffeeScript sometime in the future, but I'm very used to the vanilla JS. Not sure if I'm going to touch other languages in the foreseeable future for the same reason. Do you have any experience with switching between programming languages (from the one you know to the one you don't)?
Nice. I've never used CoffeeScript but I hear it's good. That's how I learn :D I started out with JS, I barely knew it properly, then I did a free C course and I loved it, I manically constructed a 3000+ line text explorer using a giant IF tree and hundreds of variables. Then I found a tutorial for making 2D graphics in Java, again, I had no idea what I was doing but I kept modifying it until I did. I did hardly any Java tutorials actually, I just searched "whatever was wrong" + java + stackoverflow, which I would recommend because it's a lot of fun but also recommend you still look through more official documentation so you learn the terminology. Kotlin can work alongside Java(Not in the same file, but Kotlin files can interact with Java classes and vica versa), so switching current projects from Java is easy(IntelliJ IDEA 15 also provides a "convert Java to Kotlin" function. Apparently it can also compile to Javascript, I'm not sure how that works but next time I do Javascript I will try Kotlin instead because the only good IDE for JavaScript I know is PhpStorm, and it's not free. What text editor/IDE do you use?Do you have any experience with switching between programming languages (from the one you know to the one you don't)?
That's quite a programming journey you've had. Let me ask you a few questions, if you don't mind. If I were to build a small app - something like "act as a clock and tell me when an hour since I've launched the app has passed" - would it be quicker for me to do it in C or in Java? What are C and Java generally used for? Is there anything one's better for than the other? Keep in mind: I have no experience in either, or in programming apps for a PC. Brackets, and loving it. What amazes me is that Brackets itself is written with JS while acting as a Win application - the only thing giving it away was error logs: something in there implied of its nature pretty clearly to me. It allows for good project management - both inside the project and between several of them - which is good for me since I can easily look up previous projects I did and copy/learn from how I solved the problem encountered previously. Instant testing - "live preview", they call it - is what I enjoy very well: it allows for instant checking and correcting whatever error I may have made or changing the style that didn't work out so well. Good stuff, and I'm enjoying it. Can't see a reason to switch off to anything else.What text editor/IDE do you use?
Assuming I understand what you mean, here's how you'd do it in C: #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> int main() { Sleep( 3000 ); // sleep three seconds printf( "sleep ended\n" ); And this is how you would do it in Java package ... public class SleepExample{ System.out.println("Starting to sleep"); try{ Thread.sleep(1000); // Sleep 3 seconds }catch(InterruptedException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } System.out.println("Sleep ended"); } As you can see, Java's is bigger, but I've made a shitty gifv to demonstrate that it's not really a problem when you're using an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA http://i.imgur.com/XUPWXeb.gifv Edit: The program actually sleeps 1 second because I'm an idiot Another thing to note is If you want to make an alarm that's actually useful, with a GUI etc. Java is defintely the way to go out of the two languages, there's no argument. C is pretty old, it's very fast and very low-level, which will mean you will need to reinvent the wheel pretty often, but also you're not limited(Very rarely a concern, but you will know when it will be). C is better for a few very specific tasks, but that's about it. However, the answer to that question when it isn't limited to just Java and C will depend on who you ask. Personally, I'm conflicted on Java or C# (Leaning slightly toward Java because the JVM is full of potential and mono is pretty slow) Brackets sounds cool. It's always good to look out for better things though, I was happy using Eclipse and so regret being lazy and not checking out IntelliJ IDEA sooner. Plus, if you're looking for a job, it's good to at least know the basics of an IDE you're likely to use if you get hired.
} printf( "starting to sleep...\n" ); public static void main(String[] args){#include <windows.h>
in the C version, this code would only work on Windows(Someone correct me if I'm wrong) and you'd need different implementations for different operating systems, optimized for different CPUs...