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Re: initial value [message #171172 is a reply to message #171165]

Tue, 28 December 2010 20:57

Sherm Pendley
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richard <member(at)newsguy(dot)com> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:25:48 -0800 (PST), Captain Paralytic wrote:
>
>> Your scatter gun approach to programming would be funny if it wasn't
>> so tragic.
>
> Ah yes, we forget how we learn things don't we?

No. Quite the opposite in fact - I remember quite well how I learned
to program. The scatter gun approach you're taking isn't it.

> When you first got that amazing contraption called a computer, you were
> such an expert with it and all of it's magical wonders.

No, but I *was* willing to take a methodical, scientific approach to
learning about it. I didn't just hammer away at random and hope for
the best. I thought about what I wanted to write, then, when (not if)
what I wrote didn't do what I expected, I carefully examined what it
*did* do, to learn why my expectations were inaccurate.

> As a child we see our friends all riding their bicycles. You want to do it
> too. So the expert you are, you just get up on the thing and start pedaling
> around. Never once falling down and getting hurt.
>
> So knowing that you are such an expert in everything, I must bow to your
> superior intelligence, and run off to the porcelain bowl to puke my brains
> out.

You seem to have missed the point. Captain P. isn't chastising you for
needing to learn; he's pointing out that the approach you're taking isn't
a very effective way to go about it.

A million monkeys hammering away at random may eventually produce the
complete works of Shakespeare. But they'd have learned nothing by doing
so, and they'd be no better equipped to tackle another project than
they were before they started.

sherm--

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Sherm Pendley
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		initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 16:30
		Re: initial value By: Luuk on Tue, 28 December 2010 16:44
		Re: initial value By: Luuk on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:08
		Re: initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:15
		Re: initial value By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 28 December 2010 20:01
		Re: initial value By: Norman Peelman on Wed, 29 December 2010 00:20
		Re: initial value By: Norman Peelman on Wed, 29 December 2010 11:48
		Re: initial value By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 28 December 2010 16:47
		Re: initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:16
		Re: initial value By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:25
		Re: initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 19:02
		Re: initial value By: Sherm Pendley on Tue, 28 December 2010 20:57
		Re: initial value By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 28 December 2010 22:32
		Re: initial value By: Evan Platt on Wed, 29 December 2010 04:39
		Re: initial value By: Leonardo Azpurua on Thu, 30 December 2010 03:05
		Re: initial value By: Helmut Chang on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:20
		Re: initial value By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 28 December 2010 17:37
		Re: initial value By: Luuk on Tue, 28 December 2010 18:04
		Re: initial value By: Kim Andr Aker on Tue, 28 December 2010 18:13
		Re: initial value By: Luuk on Tue, 28 December 2010 18:22
		Re: initial value By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Tue, 28 December 2010 18:59
		Re: initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 19:24
		Re: initial value By: Beauregard T. Shagnas on Tue, 28 December 2010 19:55
		Re: initial value By: Kim Andr Aker on Wed, 29 December 2010 07:15
		Re: initial value By: Evan Platt on Wed, 29 December 2010 16:57
		Re: initial value By: Kim Andr Aker on Thu, 30 December 2010 01:30
		Re: initial value By: richard on Tue, 28 December 2010 19:06
		Re: initial value By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 28 December 2010 22:34
		Re: initial value By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 29 December 2010 00:04
		Re: initial value By: Tim Streater on Wed, 29 December 2010 22:41
		Re: initial value By: Chuck Anderson on Tue, 28 December 2010 20:41

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