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Re:JavaScript Visualization of Sorting Algorithms on Friday March 11, 2011 @09:49AM (#2313470)
The visualization is nice but it fails to explain the ideas of each algorithm.

And it's interesting that the best visualizations for this are java applets.

Re:Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @06:50AM (#2220899)
I am a humble cs undergraduate student too but I can already tell that PhD != Bright.
Isn't this very different to the way twitter works?

I follow this account and get links that I have to click on and then click on the "play" button again in order to listen to some(or any)one's broken english?

Re:Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million on the Mac App Store on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @01:18AM (#2142371)
Isn't anyone else curious about their figures before the Mac App Store?
Re:Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @12:58AM (#2142341)
A couple of months ago I decided to use Python for my (undergraduate) dissertation project. I assumed that the newest version of the language is the one to go with. And everything was fine until a few days ago when I discovered finding a library to draw simple graphs that is compatible with Python 3 requires quite an effort.

Now I have to either take everything back to 2.7 or keep believing that I will finally manage to work it out with 3.

How is that going to kill the "momentum" I received and change my feelings about Python? It's not going to change them. I enjoyed every single moment of coding so far, even those very first ones where I kept inserting curly brackets everywhere. So, if it fits my needs, I am going to use it in future projects as well.

How is that going to change the industry's feelings about Python? Who knows? But I doubt the industry worries about "momentum". If you are using 2.7, keep using it until Python 3 is usable for your. If you are not using Python yet but you want to, do your research beforehand (something I falsely didn't do) and decide what's best.

Now, how long is it going to take for the major libraries/frameworks to be Python 3 compatible, nobody can tell. And it's funny as we are approaching the "3.2" version already.

But, honestly, who cares? Is a number more important than the language itself?