The week-long course is over. The last person left this morning. The first 3 days were brutal. We had to cover an assload of material and make sure everything worked on everybody's laptop. We'd explicitly told everybody which tools they would need, and in some cases, which versions.
Predictably, what we got was a hodgepodge of everything else. Wrong versions (either too old or too new) were a consistent problem. More insidious though were the language barriers. A few people didn't speak english as a first language, which meant that we had to do some one-on-ones to make sure they were understanding the intricacies of what we were saying. More than half (!!!) the people at the course were not java programmers. This is huge, considering that this was touted as a java workshop, with Real Live™ coding periods. That plan went out the window rather quickly, which caused us to need to shuffle the schedule on more than one occasion.
Still, all in all, it was good. The feedback and reviews they left us were quite glowing (apparently bossman said that this was some of the best feedback for a course ever). We were slavedriving them for a while, but we eased up at the end. Information overload and all…
so long as they could see the buscuits. its all about the biscuits.
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You know Java too!!! Man how many programing languages do you know???
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Java, PHP, C#, Javascript, SQL, some Perl, a bit of C++ (a looooong time ago)…. that's about it, really.
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Full list is here:
http://www.flubu.com/resume/rc-cv-2006-en.pdf
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WOW!!! I got to admit that I'm really impress… REALLY!!!
I remember that I told you years ago (you were still living at 12 Fortin), in front of your TRS-80 that you should go into computer science (or something along those lines). I'm glad to see that I was right :P
And now with Apple switching to Intel :(, it's going to be easy for you to sharpen your programming skills and create softwares for both Windows and MacOS based computers.
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I mean 11 Fortin…
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yes and no. Java is already platform independent, and so are the scripting languages. I doubt there's a C# runtime for OS X (though there mono, so that could work…) so that leaves C++ for native coding, and I haven't done anything serious in it in years.
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I'm sad to say that the only thing I understood is the Java part, for the rest, well it could have been chinese :(
The programming language (coding???) for the new MacIntel is called Universal Binary and I have no idea what it is and if it remotely near C.
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