I'm looking for more information for a research paper I've been working on. After finding about 20 sites, and one very interesting one yesterday (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6282) I'm...

I have two three-ring binders with printouts of my code and documentation from the past. The stuff I write for myself doesn't usually get printed, but everything I do for class I put in there.
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How about a program that would generate random machine code for a very simple system (such as the PEP/7 emulator our class used) and executes it until it gets the fibonacci sequence?

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Make sure you know your OS's program kill statements or keypresses.

I'm only half joking, those things are important if you write yourself an infinite loop! Easy to do when coding using (a) no...

As far as programming languages go, learn one. They'll never die. There's schools that still teach Fortran, Prolog, Ada (mine) as well as the more "common" (that means better known to the general...

The best way to get help is to ask specific questions. Rather than saying my program doesn't work, say "I get this error in this bit of code /code segment/ how do I fix it?"

Either that, or look...

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I found this several years ago. It's been one of my favorite sites to refer to when someone gets impatient about their question.

This is from a perl...

Personally, I'd recommend starting with BASIC or Ada. Both languages are extremely readable, so writing code is easy to understand with humans. BASIC (in some flavor) is free, but there are...

Sounds like YOU have to define it YOURSELF. What do you want it to do? It keeps time. Great. Does it simply read the system clock before doing something and then read it afterwards? That's below...

Hardest project (Program?) I have had so far is to write a package in Ada using and manipulating strings. The problem was, rather than using get_line for the input, we had to use get. The computer...

Personally, I'd recommend starting with BASIC (some dialect of it. There's literally 100's!) because it's one of the most common language bases. (You know those TI-graphing calculators? Took me 30...

You can be a quiet student in CS class, but don't stay quiet out of class. Read the appropriate text, take good notes, and ask SOMEONE questions. I've asked questions of my professor, some random...