Chatbox log - 2008-10-30 - Zelaron Gaming Forum

[15:49] Lenny: The ones I'm taking are - Foundations of Computer Science, Formal Aspects of CS, Introduction to Programming/Programming & Data Structues and Computer Systems.

[15:49] Chruser: How math-heavy is your programme?

[15:49] Lenny: FCS and FA are the logic, reasoning and maths behind CS. IP/PDS is the programming side, and CSys is Databases, Networks, Operating Systems, and the like.

[15:50] Lenny: There's not very much "Maths" as such - it's more reasoning and logic, that we do do Binomial, Pascals triangle, Factorial, Combinations + Permutations, Logs, and some other things.

[15:51] Lenny: http://www.dur.ac.uk/cs.internal/undergrad/modules/ Each link takes you to a description of the module,

[15:51] Chruser: I see. I found a pretty nice programme, but it has significantly more emphasis on math and logic than programming aspects per se.

[15:52] Chruser: The Advanced Artificial Intelligence courses seem interesting.

[15:53] Lenny: I can't do those yet. =( Next year I can, though.

[15:54] Lenny: Anyway, I must be off. I want an early night tonight. Speak to you over the weekend, maybe. Toodles!

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[15:54] !King_Amazon!: cout<<"Hello Zelaron."<<endl;

[15:54] D3V: <<endl;

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[15:55] D3V: cout<<"Zelaron is filled with assclowns."<<endl; divx:lol <<cout"Suck it"<<endl;

[15:56] !King_Amazon!: does not compute

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[15:56] WetWired: printf("Fuck %s\r\n","KA");

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[15:57] !King_Amazon!: I haven't learned that yet

[15:57] !King_Amazon!: But it looks similar to MATLAB's fprintf

[15:57] WetWired: Basic C

[15:57] !King_Amazon!: I really just started, I haven't even finished my first chapter

[15:58] WetWired: If you're learning a C language and you haven't covered printf, find a new teacher

[15:58] !King_Amazon!: I started reading about half an hour ago

[15:58] Chruser: printf("%c%c%c%c",83,84,70,85);

[15:59] WetWired: exit(-1);

[15:59] !King_Amazon!: I learned how to make a program to display Hello World, naturally

[15:59] !King_Amazon!: Then I learned about different data types

[15:59] Chruser: 1 goto 1

[16:00] !King_Amazon!: Then I learned about integers and constants and shit

[16:00] !King_Amazon!: now I'm learning about naming conventions

[16:00] !King_Amazon!: I haven't really learned many functions, yet

[16:00] !King_Amazon!: But I do know a good bit of MATLAB, and that's supposed to be similar to C/C++

[16:01] !King_Amazon!: It's actually written in C, I believe

[16:01] !King_Amazon!: or C++

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[16:01] !King_Amazon!: I can't remember

[16:01] !King_Amazon!: Originally in Fortran

[16:01] WetWired: Not that that has anything to do with its scripting language

[16:01] WetWired: Time to go home

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[16:02] !King_Amazon!: Oh, I did learn the difference

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[16:02] !King_Amazon!: MATLAB is interpreted

[16:03] !King_Amazon!: whereas C/C++ is compiled

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[16:03] !King_Amazon!: I don't like MATLAB, myself

[16:03] Goodlookinguy: Yup!

[16:03] Chruser: ((lambda (arg) (+ arg 1)) 1336)

[16:04] Chruser: WetWired.

[16:04] !King_Amazon!: cool

[16:04] Chruser: Procure Mirror's Edge from PSN.

[16:04] !King_Amazon!: Unfortunately, all of the programming I seem to be learning is related to solving math/physics/engineering problems and shit

[16:04] !King_Amazon!: Which, while relevant to some of my interests and to my career, is boring

[16:05] Goodlookinguy: If it bores you, you probably weren't meant to be a programmer.

[16:05] !King_Amazon!: I would much rather learn to do fun things.

[16:05] Goodlookinguy: "Fun things"?

[16:06] Goodlookinguy: Everything is fun!

[16:06] !King_Amazon!: I'm not meant to be a programmer, thus I'm majoring in Chemical Engineering

[16:06] !King_Amazon!: However, using C++ to solve math problems is boring

[16:06] !King_Amazon!: Using C++ to make games or viruses or useful tools is fun

[16:07] Goodlookinguy: Viruses? BA! I hate virus creators.

[16:07] !King_Amazon!: You probably weren't meant to be a virus creator, then.

[16:07] Goodlookinguy: You need to understand a bit of mathamatics to be able to create games.

[16:08] Goodlookinguy: Otherwise you'll have to keep guessing how big something will be or how and have problems setting up boundaries properly.

[16:09] !King_Amazon!: I understand mathematics.

[16:09] !King_Amazon!: Not in relation to C++, though.

[16:09] Goodlookinguy: That last sentence was two thoughts accidently crammed into one.

[16:09] Goodlookinguy: Sorry.

[16:10] Goodlookinguy: You should understand it in C and C++ just fine.

[16:10] Goodlookinguy: Mathematics and Programming go hand in hand.

[16:10] Goodlookinguy: Especially with JavaScript I've noticed.

[16:11] Goodlookinguy: I'm out, I'm extremely tired. Afternoon nap, here I come!

[16:11] !King_Amazon!: Well MATLAB is probably more math oriented than C or C++

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[16:35] D3V: i'm listening to a McCain rally.

[16:35] D3V: they're actually cheering "Joe the Plumber". When the fuck ever, in the history of ANYTHING has cheering for a Plumber been popular?

[16:35] D3V: Morons.

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[16:40] D3V: myspace unblocked at work FTW.

[16:40] D3V: bout to peace out, later

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[16:52] Grav: mario is pretty popular

[16:52] Grav: and he is a plumber

[16:53] Grav: but the joe the plumber shit is just insulting to the intelligence of people

[16:53] Grav: or it should be, but people are too dumb to realize >_<

[16:53] Grav: just like "joe sixpack"

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[17:11] D3V: That's true. Yeah, joe six-pack should be looked at as a slap in the face... but it isn't?

[17:11] D3V: Seriously.

[17:11] D3V: Striving for failure.

[17:11] D3V: Republicans are the kids in class that strive to make C's.

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[17:15] Grav: the type that high five each other when they pull a 68 on a one page english paper

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[18:00] PureRebel: lol

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[18:18] Xenn: i love joe the plumber

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[18:44] PureRebel: who doesn't. (Y)

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[21:51] Grav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNvEpH2L1o

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[22:40] Xenn: thats such a dumb machine

[22:40] Xenn: if you have to put that much weight on its obviously pointless

[22:40] Xenn: its just so douchebags can put on like 400 pounds and feel like hot shit

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