/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5506496]

Could a pleb with little understanding of computer science get some help to prepare himself for the upcoming competitons?

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5506500]

>>5506496
no

[Anonymous No.5506502]

I'm in a first year comp sci high school class and we're in the midst of competition season, so help from time to time would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.5507408]

>>5506496
Learn C++ before your brain gets warped by java and becomes incapable of learning real programming.

[Anonymous No.5507413]

>>5507408
> trolling this hard

[Anonymous No.5507449]

>>5507408
1/34

[Anonymous No.5507452]

By competition I assume you mean programming competition and aslong as you know the basic syntax of java you'll be fine the difficulty usually lies in the math and algorithm design so focus on your data structures but not to deeply the best practice you can get is just doing past problems.

[Anonymous No.5507453]

>>5507413
>implying Java doesn't cripple minds

[Anonymous No.5507464]

>>5507453
Lemme know when C++ gets things like encapsulation and reflection so it can be an object oriented language.

[Anonymous No.5507465]

>>5507453
>implying that a good programmer wouldn't choose the language best suited for the task.

bullshit like "java cripples your mind" can only come from a faggot scriptkiddie who never did any real work. If you only have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. A real programmer will choose his tools according to his needs.

[Anonymous No.5507476]

>>5507465
There both quotes straight from Dijkstra.

>implying Java is ever best for any task

[Anonymous No.5507498]

>>5507476
writing for multiple platforms springs to mind

[Anonymous No.5507523]

>>5507498
python

[Anonymous No.5507532]

>>5507408

Pictures for C# and Java are different. In reality, C# and Java are virtually identical.

[Anonymous No.5507537]

>>5507532
microsoft fanboy detected

[Anonymous No.5507539]

>>5507532
true that.

[Anonymous No.5507553]

>>5507537
>>5507539
In the beginning C# was just a clone of Java.
Then the two languages evolved and a couple some differences appeared.
Now I'm must say that C# is far better than Java, with a more consistent and better designed API (Reflection, file manipulations...)
And I'm a Linux user / open-source supporter.

[Anonymous No.5507560]

>>5507464
but it does
https://github.com/tegesoft/camp

>>5507476
>implying Java is ever best for any task
this
I've been working as a web developper, then as a software engineer for 6 years...
It's killing that the dumbfucks who work as project managers think Java is better because it's backed up by Sun/Oracle

[Anonymous No.5507562]

>>5506496
Are you by any chance going to a competition at Upenn this weekend?

[Anonymous No.5507602]

SCHEME!!

COMMON LISP!!!

HASKELL!!!

[begin rants]

[Anonymous No.5507613]

>>5507464
C++ has encapsulation. Don't blame C++ for the fact that you need to know how big an object is to put it on the stack.

[Anonymous No.5507625]

>>5507602
*<Racket

[Anonymous No.5507630]

>Learning more than one language

Assembly is the only language you'll ever need. Everything else is a crutch.

[Anonymous No.5507636]

>>5507630
SECTION .data
msg: db "Fuck No!",10
len: equ $-msg

SECTION .text

global main
main:
mov edx,len
mov ecx,msg
mov ebx,1
mov eax,4

int 0x80
mov ebx,0
mov eax,1
int 0x80

[Anonymous No.5507644]

>>5507630

>implying there there is only one assembly language

[Anonymous No.5507665]

>>5507636

not using ASCIIZ

[Anonymous No.5507672]

>>5507630
i hope you're trolling
but really you're probably not and actually that stupid

[Anonymous No.5507822]

>>5506496
>>5507408
I started with C++, loved it, then learned Java, from that day I hate C++. I just type what I like in Java and it fucking works, C++ means headache every where.

[Anonymous No.5507836]