General Programming Megathread v2

[aludane]

Anybody experienced with Ruby on Rails? I'm having issues with somebody's github project I need to use.

>rails server
>complains that I need rails gem
>I have the exact version it needs from the gemfile
>tells me to update rails gem
>I update using bundle install
>tells me stuffs broken with the application config boot.rb (because rails-3 works differently)

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[Brian Smithers]

ex: you like using Python so use Python for everything you can, but you can't make an OS in Python.
so use something else instead.

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[blueblur121]

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if(OP="friend"){
       return("Ur a cigarettegut LOLZ")
}else{
       return("Nothing to do here.")
}

[Zloff]

Does anyone know great C++ books that are worth buying or good internet tutorials? I'm interested in earning a certification and I kinda don't know the best place to start

[ultimamax]

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if(OP="friend"){
       return("Ur a cigarettegut LOLZ")
}else{
       return("Nothing to do here.")
}

that supposed to be java?
WRONG

[Kaphonaits²]

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if(OP="friend"){
       return("Ur a cigarettegut LOLZ")
}else{
       return("Nothing to do here.")
}

you're so funny.

Does anyone know great C++ books that are worth buying or good internet tutorials? I'm interested in earning a certification and I kinda don't know the best place to start

thenewboston.

some of his explanations / examples aren't the best but he's a great teacher overall.

[Amerax]

So I know a fair amount of HTML/CSS, as well as some Javascript. But I'm just curious as to if I should learn Python.

I don't know much about it, but I do know that its fairly popular. So should I bother with it, or learn something else?

[Elecro]

i dabble in lua a bit.

OP, why the forget didn't you include SciTE for text editor?

[otto-san]

Does anyone know great C++ books that are worth buying or good internet tutorials? I'm interested in earning a certification and I kinda don't know the best place to start

When I started C++, I got Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson.

I don't know if it's exactly what you want, but it's pretty good.

[.:FancyPants:.]

Why is C the god of languages? How are C# and C++ different? Why are they so amazing? Why would anyone use anything else but C?

i use c++, why not?
it's c with some more stuff and it's the one getting support now, because isn't c technically outdated?
i mean i truly don't know much, so please correct me, and if you seriously recommend c over c++ tell me how you're getting so much out of it, i just can't see the reasons not to use c++.

[dotdot: revolutions]

i use c++, why not?
it's c with some more stuff and it's the one getting support now, because isn't c technically outdated?
i mean i truly don't know much, so please correct me, and if you seriously recommend c over c++ tell me how you're getting so much out of it, i just can't see the reasons not to use c++.

C isn't outdated. C++ is a superset of C with more features such as a stricter type system, extended library, memory management operators and object oriented constructs. Just because it has more features doesn't always make it better. I use C nearly every day because it's simple. When I write in C I can treat it as a glorified assembler and have a good idea of what things are doing under the hood. It's sill possible to do this with C++ though it's harder as vtables complicate things a little bit. C++ is great for large codebases and is a massive language in itself. It's hard to master! Though really they can be used for the same thing, I enjoy both languages... (well, most of the time  template metaprogramming... /wrists)

[Kaphonaits²]

i use c++, why not?
it's c with some more stuff and it's the one getting support now, because isn't c technically outdated?
i mean i truly don't know much, so please correct me, and if you seriously recommend c over c++ tell me how you're getting so much out of it, i just can't see the reasons not to use c++.

because you'd still use C for writing kernels and such. you wouldn't write a kernel in C++.

[devildogelite]

Lots of people hate asm. It's really fun to read and program in when you have the right mindset. You should play around with FASM before you get in the class.

http://flatassembler.net/

Edit: There are also tons of good books. PM me if you want some good learning material :)

My computer organization class was absolutely terrible. The professor didn't know what she was talking about half the time, which was surprising. She used to work for PP&L an electric company working with punchcard computers and stuff like that. She ended up turning the comp org class into something a lot closer to a computer engineering class. The assembler professor is supposed to be a good teacher.

[dotdot: revolutions]

because you'd still use C for writing kernels and such. you wouldn't write a kernel in C++.

Why not? You could write a kernel in C++ just fine. The runtime isn't very preferable but it's not like it's a horrible thing to use. There have been many kernels developed in C++. But yeah, personally C is a better choice for that. It's also a good user-land language as well, it's not like it's solely for kernels etc.

[Kaphonaits²]

Why not? You could write a kernel in C++ just fine. The runtime isn't very preferable but it's not like it's a horrible thing to use. There have been many kernels developed in C++. But yeah, personally C is a better choice for that. It's also a good user-land language as well, it's not like it's solely for kernels etc.

pretty much for all the reasons the linux kernel is not.