My first useful factor program. ! A guessing game USING: calendar random strings namespaces prettyprint math.parser io io.files math kernel combinators ; IN: guess ! lets choose our number SYMBOL: answer ! initialize the generator now timestamp>unix-time init-random ! get a number [1..100] and put it in answer 100 random answer set answer get . ! keep asking the user : start-guessing ( -- ) "Enter number: " print…

This is my honest opinion, feel happy to flame or contradict me, but be polite. Much has already been written about how much High School computer science teaching sucks ( High school computer science education ). As a student who has just left high school I just wanted to present my 2 cents on how bad the seperation between RealWorld programming and ClassRoom programming is. A common rebuttal is that there isn't enough time.…

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Talking Bluntly Refreshing. That will shut up the pessimists. …

Its been a week since i discovered Factor. So first, it's stack based, it's small, it's almost tiny. I've never programmed in a stack based language before. But I liked it, really makes you think. Infact I haven't got any program written yet, just playing around in the interactive interpreter. It's got really good documentation by way of the API, what it could use is a quick start guide, ie.…

Welcome to the New Year!…

I am sorry to say this to myself, and it is a sad way to end the year, but I've to give up on decent projects for a few months. The next few months are 'while true: study' months for 12th standard students, since the exams supposedly decide your life. Which means most of the time my mind is just looking forward to not thinking and unfortunately programming is thinking, even if it is fun.…

Amarok has the best way of reporting a bug. Whenever Amarok crashes it launches a KMail compose window with full debug information filled in and adressed. Which means you just click send. This is way better than having to go to the project's bug tracker and create an account - the worst part - and then submit a bug. I wish all of KDE ( and others ) went this way.…

Ricochet for windows has been released. Grab it now. …

Play 18 levels of switch-toggling fun. Get Ricochet …