Re:Khan Academy: Computer Science
by non123 on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:19PM
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I remember I first bought a Java book to learn to program when I was around 15-16. I tried for days but couldn't figure out why the first example program wouldn't work, it was because it wasn't System.out.print1n but System.out.println. In the font the code was written in, I couldn't tell. Because of that it wasn't until at least a year later that I didn't try again.
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Exact same thing happened to me when trying to do my first cs problem set. It was some filename that I was sure had a 1 in it but it was an l. It's almost as if courier tries as hard as possible to make the two look the same.
Courier was intended to look like a traditional typewriter font. For many decades, most typewriters didn't have a key for 1 (one), you were supposed to use the lower-case l (ell) instead.
Teletypes did have a one key, probably because they were all-uppercase, so there wasn't a lowercase ell available.
Re:Khan Academy: Computer Science
by manish_gill on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:57PM
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Happened to me while learning C++. endl or end1...so confused.