Re: [Newbies] Re: I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

2011-04-05 Thread Amir Ansari
I've been looking for this issue of Byte for a long time - are there any scans online? It's certainly a seminal issue! Amir On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:11:34 -0500 Tim Johnson wrote: > Also one of the Kent Beck books like Smalltalk: Best Practice Patterns but I > can't recall if that was the one.

Re: [Newbies] Re: I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

2011-04-05 Thread Tim Johnson
On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Tim Retz wrote: > The exception I mentioned above was the "Bots Inc." tutorial. It was > fantastic, made me think, and I really felt like I was learning. My only > problem is that is ended too soon. I wish it would go on to show you how to > build your own systems and,

Re: [Newbies] Randomness

2011-04-05 Thread Levente Uzonyi
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 05.04.2011, at 02:32, Levente Uzonyi wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, michael rice wrote: I forgot to mention, I'm using the random number tile and scripting. Does that make it more difficult? Not really, RandomNumberTile uses the global random nu

Re: [Newbies] Randomness

2011-04-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.04.2011, at 02:32, Levente Uzonyi wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, michael rice wrote: > >> I forgot to mention, I'm using the random number tile and scripting. Does >> that make it more difficult? > > Not really, RandomNumberTile uses the global random number generator of > Collection. I d