I'm sure that if there were volunteers needed to moderate this thread, you'll find them. Perhaps rotten would spare time to make sure the thread stays on track.
Hi JamesCherrill, If I understand rotten's suggest right, it wouldn't necessarily be a thread for newbies to post questions unless they are asking about a particular project presented by a guru here.
Hey rotten69, I wouldn't say that math is a huge part of the topics that I mentioned but I found some of the concepts to be tricky to think through line by line. Most of my coding background thus far comes in the form of programming Excel books via VBA, VB.NET, SQL, Java, and C# with the brunt of my limited knowledge in Excel coding. With VBA, I have no problems putting thoughts into code, line by line. However with Java and C#, I have a harder time doing that. Linked Nodes have been my crutch with regards to linked lists and trees as I have a hard time mentally processing how each node via code points to the next node and it's element. I got hung up on this in class and wound up failing it because of when nodes became doubly linked nodes. Since I didn't get that, doubly linked lists, trees, and mapping were never truly understood. I've had classmates tell me not to worry about how or why the code does what it does with regards to nodes but to just memorize the data structures. I don't learn by memorizing, I learn by understanding and I'm still foggy headed if I think about data structures and algorithms.
In saying all that, if you get how nodes and doubly linked nodes work, the structures and algorithms won't be that tough for you to learn. I for one know that if I need to code a tree structure …
I think it is a great idea. I've seen this sort of idea on other forums but I also saw the gurus duking it out over what beginners do wrong and gurus are always right and yada-yada-yada! Most of all you that I have encountered here do not come across as coding gods so there should be no issues in that regard.
A Projects for Beginners would also be a good resource for students to try and get help with their own school projects. I wish I knew about this site while I was taking a course called Data Structures & Algorithms with Java. I had/have no problem with the concepts from the course which covered areas like deques, queues, stacks, trees, linked lists, mapping, and more but the coding part, especially at exam time always put me through the ringers.
Now that I've winded myself, I fully agree with this idea and good one for bringing it up.
Hi kovidd, as soapyillusion pointed out you haven't really let anyone know what you do know. If you are comfortable with arrays and pointers you could move onto data structures and algorithms located here. I think that learning about stacks, queues, lists, iterators, and trees would be the next step, at least it is at the university I am going to.
Heck yeah! I got to have breakfast Mr Brennan 1 month before he retired and he seemed to be a man that cared greatly for his employees and the future of hydroelectricity in Manitoba. I know that MB Hydro has been testing the load feasibility of all electric vehicles and my division manager was even test driving an electric car over last winter. He has had two main issues and you pointed out one Reverend Jim, the cars themselves are too expensive at this time as well as he said that the electric vehicles are not ready for our northern climate (he got cold a lot).
As for the BS regarding the RJ's point about fluctuating prices at the pumps compared to barrel fluctuations, I think it is all BS too! It seems that pump prices go up according to market speculations and will almost instantly increase when the barrel goes up in value. However, the same does not apply when the barrel goes down as RJ pointed out. There are many excuses and topic skirting when these so called oil experts talk about why this happens and it is all crap imo.
I hate petrol prices and despise the multi-billion dollar (a day) companies that control the flow as it were. I see scare tactics when hurricanes hit oil nations and the barrel prices go up and so do the pumps, almost instantly. Yet, when barrel prices go down, the pumps do not in any timely fashion. It's all economic bull sherbert and I find it frustrating to live in a world that is run by corporations and elite regimes.
