There's been a lot of talk about Scala when various new aspects of D
have been discussed. I stumbled upon a video where exactly those things
are talked about.
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2009/03/09/an-introduction-to-the-scala-programming-language-by-bill-venners/
"Bill Venners, co-author of the Scala
Georg Wrede wrote:
There's been a lot of talk about Scala when various new aspects of D
have been discussed. I stumbled upon a video where exactly those things
are talked about.
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2009/03/09/an-introduction-to-the-scala-programming-language-by-bill-venners/
"Bill Venners,
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>
>> There's been a lot of talk about Scala when various new aspects of D have
>> been discussed. I stumbled upon a video where exactly those things are
>> talked about.
>>
>>
>> http://blog.jaoo.dk/2009/03/09/an-int
Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Also, is that a bug in the Java code at 12:17? I'm seeing a statement line:
BigInt.ONE;
that I think is just an object, so the statement has no effect. Right? If
so, well, that's quite bad.
I think the code on to
> Gosh,
> he spends like *forever* on the if statement... at some point he asks
> people whether they've seen the ?: operator... does JAOO stand for
> Conference of Brain Damage Survivors?
>
Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.
Nick Sabalausky:
>Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.<
You have to form a little group with few other of the students most interested
in those classes (or you can even act alone), and ask the teacher to change the
style or way, explaining him/her to slow down or speed up topics.
Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Georg Wrede wrote:
There's been a lot of talk about Scala when various new aspects of D have
been discussed. I stumbled upon a video where exactly those things are
talked about.
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2009/03/09/an-i
"bearophile" wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky:
>>Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.<
>
> You have to form a little group with few other of the students most
> interested in those classes (or you can even act alone), and ask the
> teacher
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
That wasn't my college experience at all (Caltech). I was a
low-to-mid-range student there, and the profs were always ready to help
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"bearophile" wrote in message
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Nick Sabalausky:
Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.<
You have to form a little group with few other of the students most
interested in those classes (or you can even act alone), and ask
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > If there's one thing my
> > school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
> > focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
> That wasn't my college experience at all (Caltech). I w
"dsimcha" wrote in message
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> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> > If there's one thing my
>> > school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
>> > focusing on the low-to-mid-
"Walter Bright" wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> They would be far better off saving their time and money by not even
>> going, but they almost *have* to go anyway just because the rest of
>> society (and HR drones in particular) are brainwashed
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "bearophile" wrote in message
>> news:gr1l57$vu...@digitalmars.com...
>>> Nick Sabalausky:
Sounds like most of the CS classes I had in college.<
>>> You have to form a little group with few oth
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
That wasn't my college experience at all (Caltech).
Georg Wrede wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
That wasn't my college experien
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:32:20 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
>Georg Wrede wrote:
>> dsimcha wrote:
>>> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> If there's one thing my
> school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only inte
== Quote from dsimcha (dsim...@yahoo.com)'s article
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
> > Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > > If there's one thing my
> > > school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
> > > focusing on the low-to-mid-range stude
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
>
> We all know stories of lousy-student rise to genius. John Backus, Thomas
> Alva Edison, Einstein... You know why? Because they're spectacular
> stories. There have been plenty of geniuses who also happened to be good
>
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Georg Wrede wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
Tha
Sean Kelly:
> and the grades derived from a combination of homework and actual
> problem-solving quizzes and exams.<
In my university (biology, computer science) most grades come from:
- How well you do practical tests and exercises done in laboratory (usually
programming exercises in computer s
In my university (biology, computer science) most grades come from:
To add:
- How much you pay your Professor
At least that's what I heard about Italian universities.
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message
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>
> But I agree, higher education in the US is the top, no question.
If that's the case it just goes to show how terrible "education" is
worldwide.
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message
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But I agree, higher education in the US is the top, no question.
If that's the case it just goes to show how terrible "education" is
worldwide.
There may also be a few perspective illusions involved
grauzone:
> To add:
> - How much you pay your Professor
> At least that's what I heard about Italian universities.
Yes, in the some universities of the south (and probably some in the center)
this happens now and then. But it's much less common in natural sciences
(because you have to know what
bearophile wrote:
grauzone:
To add: - How much you pay your Professor At least that's what I
heard about Italian universities.
Yes, in the some universities of the south (and probably some in the
center) this happens now and then. But it's much less common in
natural sciences (because you hav
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
That wasn't my college experience at all (Caltech).
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Exactly. I remember this one class I had (wasn't cs though) where I tended
to do poorly on the essay portions of the exams. At one point I decided to
answer one of the essay questions by quoting the prof's lecture nearly
verbatim, and got a perfect score. Way to reward p
Georg Wrede wrote:
OTOH, to make things really happen, we need the other kind of guys.
Those of us who want to understand. They're the ones who advance the
state of the art, and without that, we'd still be traveling on steam
trains. I just wish there were more schools and pedagogic knowledge (a
Sean Kelly wrote:
And some of the stories are just that: stories. Here's a quote from Michael
Shara,
a curator at the New York Museum of Natural History's exhibit dedicated to
Einstein:
"This myth that Einstein was a mediocre student is definitely not true,"
says
Shara. "He was highly
Sean Kelly wrote:
I definitely would try to avoid universities where multiple-choice tests are
the norm
(oddly, I've heard that UC Berkeley falls into this category, and as a result
it's also
apparently a haven for cheaters). I went back to finish my undergrad degree
recently
and despite bein
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
College was quite transformative for me as well, just in different way: It
make me an enormous cynic ;)
I imagine there is the gamut of quality in universities and peoples'
experiences. My going to Caltech was an accident of circumstance, one of
the happy accidents in m
"Walter Bright" wrote in message
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>
> 90% of the classes I took I selected because they interested me and I
> thought they were important. I made sure I understood front to back every
> single homework problem, and every exam problem I got wrong. I also paid
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Well, when it comes to college, what you're paying for are the classes and
the degree (and, of course, books/room/board). So I'm certainly going to
measure it's worth with that in mind. Having a dinner with Carl Segan, as
great as he was, is hardly worth $100,000, unless
Walter Bright wrote:
Sean Kelly wrote:
I definitely would try to avoid universities where multiple-choice
tests are the norm
(oddly, I've heard that UC Berkeley falls into this category, and as a
result it's also
apparently a haven for cheaters). I went back to finish my undergrad
degree rece
Don wrote:
At the same time, I got 12% for one intermediate exam in Organic
Chemistry, which I'd been very diligent in -- I was dreadful at rote
memorisation.
I hated chemistry and did correspondingly badly in it.
== Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article
> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Sean Kelly wrote:
> >> I definitely would try to avoid universities where multiple-choice
> >> tests are the norm
> >> (oddly, I've heard that UC Berkeley falls into this category, and as a
> >> result it's also
> >> apparen
Walter Bright wrote:
Multiple choice exams were against the rules at Caltech (even though we
did have a few huge lecture-based classes).
I'll still hold forth, however, that you're going to get out of it what
you are willing to put into it. If you're only going to target getting a
degree, I
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
In all of the schools I've looked at, 90% of the classes were already chosen
for you. The only choices you typically have are when you take a particular
class (as in, during what semester, etc), a small handful of electives and a
few "course A or course B and then eithe
Walter Bright wrote:
Georg Wrede wrote:
OTOH, to make things really happen, we need the other kind of guys.
Those of us who want to understand. They're the ones who advance the
state of the art, and without that, we'd still be traveling on steam
trains. I just wish there were more schools and
Walter Bright wrote:
dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
If there's one thing my
school experience taught me, it's that teachers are only interested in
focusing on the low-to-mid-range students.
That wasn't my college experi
Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Well, when it comes to college, what you're paying for are the classes
and the degree (and, of course, books/room/board). So I'm certainly
going to measure it's worth with that in mind. Having a dinner with
Carl Segan, as great as he was, is hardly w
Sean Kelly wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Multiple choice exams were against the rules at Caltech (even though
we did have a few huge lecture-based classes).
I'll still hold forth, however, that you're going to get out of it
what you are willing to put into it. If you're only going to target
Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Well, when it comes to college, what you're paying for are the classes
and the degree (and, of course, books/room/board). So I'm certainly
going to measure it's worth with that in mind. Having a dinner with
Carl Segan, as great as he was, is hardly w
Sean Kelly Wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> Well, when it comes to college, what you're paying for are the classes
> >> and the degree (and, of course, books/room/board). So I'm certainly
> >> going to measure it's worth with that in mind. Having a dinner with
> >>
"Georg Wrede" wrote in message
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> As a child I read SciAm (from 12 on), and read about all this way cool
> stuff the folks at MIT and the other places do, and my goal was to go to
> America to study. Then some crap happened at home.
MIT is for rich kids.
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