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• 1 week ago

  I want to learn Python and Django, but I have never programmed in my life before. Any suggestions on how to start?

  Python is known for being a very rigid programming language, implementing only those features which are absolute necessities and treasuring elegant and disciplined programming practice, so with that it is very much a programmer’s world. I recommend you first learn Python as a programming language, because if you don’t, most of the finesse of the Django framework will appear to be a frustrating nuance if you don’t understand Python. Django is the product of over a decade’s experience in developing web applications, so it answers many questions you’ve probably never had. It’s very high level, and is designed to plug the holes that web developers have traditionally run into when developing large-scale web applications. You might want to consider learning how to develop web applications without a high level framework like Django. While this is doable with Python, it is very difficult, so maybe learning PHP would be a good start. Many people dislike PHP, but for largely academic reasons, and no one can argue that the barrier is much lower with PHP than developing dynamic web sites with about any other platform. PHP, in general, won’t trouble you with a lot of very nerdy and specific details like Python will. Dive Into Python is a publicly available and maintained book for beginners to Python. The aforementioned Django Book is an excellent place to get started with Python, but neither of these will give you the full picture of either Python or Django, and some things come with experience. Good luck!
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• 2 weeks ago

  Why do I need "clear" the I/O input with a dummy getline() call before I use getline() in terminal I/O?

  The insertion operator, when used on cin, ignores all leading whitespace but stops pulling data from the stream when it encounters another whitespace character, such as a newline, in the stream. The getline() function stops reading from a stream when it finds a newline character and returns the characters it has collected thus far. Since a newline operator is the first character in the stream after it is read by the insertion operator, calling getline() will cause it to return before collecting any characters, which is why it appears to return nothing.
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• 2 weeks ago

  Where could I find a computer class or degree program online?

  I don’t mean to resurrect an old thread but I thought this was worth a suggestion—MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT puts most of their course materials online, often with full video recordings of lecture. The material can be a bit heavy since these classes are real classes taken by students in MIT’s undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, but you’re also learning from an institution that is the pinnacle of Computer Science education. I’ve engrossed myself in many of the lectures and breezed through much of my undergrad curriculum at The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, which is considered to be a top notch school for Computer Science.
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• 3 months ago

  Does anyone know of a Free Acrobat Professional Alternative?

  @Mrgelastic Sumatra is a reader, it cannot create PDF forms. My favorite PDF creator is NitroPDF Professional. It costs, but it’s much less than what Adobe asks for theirs, and in my opinion is easier to use.
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• 3 months ago

  Mac 10.4 Restore?

  The Leopard disc should work fine, but you’re going to have Leopard installed instead of Tiger. To the best of my knowledge, no version of Leopard requires any kind of serial activation or anything of those sorts, so it should install. However, I do believe per the ToS you’re obligated to buy a separate copy of OS X for every machine you intend to install it on. @simpleD Mac OS X is machine indepenent as long as you’re using an Apple machine. One of the numerous benefits of Apple having total control over the hardware configuration of every Mac is that driver issues are few and far between. Just about any Mac can run any version of OS X, assuming the machine meets that version of OS X’s minimum hardware requirements.
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