Recent content by Sypher

I totally agree with you, but what I think you're trying to broadcast to our newcomer here (in a more newcomer-understandable) is: WRITE PROGRAMS! Don't just bubble through tutorials. Solve problems that interest you. And if you're done with that one, solve another one. But DO read the...

The biggest problem I have with windows is the price. Just compare the price of one windows license and the price for linux. There is simply no comparison: linux is free while windows is the pay-your-pants-of OS. Plus if linux is a better choice (Referring to secutity and stability, etc) linux...

Botswana yes. a lot of farmers are moving to Botswana because of good farming oppertunities. I should also add that's it is not the whole SA being seriously affected by crime. The Cape is rather safe (Yet not totally). The worst areas is in Guateng and Limpopo. I don't know about other...

I live in South-Africa and I and almost all of the other good people I know ownes a gun. Not because we are violent and because we want to kill, but becuse there are a whole lot of extremely violent crimes in my country (And about all these crimes are rassist related crimes). These crimes are...

And fi you are looking for a good approach to learning C++, Accelerated C++ is the one. http://www.acceleratedcpp.com/

If you decide to remove some startup programs, be sure to have a backup and/or a system restore in place and do not remove programs that you do'nt know what they do. The consequences to the latter could be devastating (trust me, I know!). I would suggest finding out which programs are safe to...

It doesn't really matter on which platform you learn to program but Linux is a better choice because most the necessary are included (or if not freely available).

Robots are really getting cool these days. Honda has some nice ones. I think the best place to find some good future tech is at MIT's AI lab. I do'nt know If they allow members of the public but their not top secret so its worth a try.

The shell is only a more GUI-like interpreter so I don't think the shell has limits to what cann be run in it. Like if you have a GUI app and you run it in the shell, the shell will automatically run it in a window. About the debugger. I don't use debuggers. I rather debug using a log or...

What are you guys going on about? I mean this person is trying to get advise about Python and you want to set your personal ideas about the language. Personaly I like OOP although I don't use it to much. My advise to science.girl is: Learn what you want to learn. When you get to the OOP...

If I where you I'd get right into Python. Its a well designed Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language and is very gentle on novices. It will learn you good programming habits and if you're serious about programming, you can easily transfer what you have learned in Python to say C++. What...

Oh and if you are looking for good Python tutorials, there is one that is really good, but is intended for people with programming experience although I think it will suit anyone. It is called Dive into python and you can get it here: http://www.diveintopython.org/

I mostly use the IDLE. I'ts not that hard. Just open the GUI shell. On file click "New Window", then it will open a text editor window where you enter your program and when you are done, save your program as wateva.py(Rember the .py otherwise you will have to rename or resave to run) and click...

Did you read ESR's how to be a hacker? Well he states that learning to hack under a closed source os is like learning to dans in a body cast. That is quit true in a way because you need to read some source to learn good programming skills but I started in windows and it was'nt to bad but I am...

And hey dude if you get errors try debuging by printlining. Add some statemnts that shows the state of the variables or at which line of execution your programs at. I've learned to apreciate this method because it makes it easy to spot bugs and is way more fun that using a debugger. Wel then...