June 24 2015, 02:00

In conclusion

https://www.facebook.com/raufaliev/posts/10153296106802368

Friends, reporting 🙂 Yesterday we did a few games on Greenfoot. It’s a very cool framework and very simple to learn.

The first game was about a keyboard-controlled crocodile that got moody when it ate a person, and the second one was a two-person tic-tac-toe that places circles of different colors in the cells you click on with the mouse (the computer doesn’t make moves)

Liza wrote the first one by herself under my supervision, the second one I explained and wrote under her supervision)

Thank you, Ivan Popelyshev

I will also install NetBeans and JBuilder, and try later to do a project with her involving battleships – it’s not hard.

June 23 2015, 14:53

What interesting (!) task can be devised for a child (daughter) aged 13.83 years in Java? Especially if she has just started learning it (literally the first few days, but there is progress).

Update: found: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153297265352368&set=a.487761057367.270246.573817367&type=1&permPage=1

In Delphi, there’s a whole bunch of tasks right away – from calculators to Tetris (yes, with my help, but it’s interesting anyway).

And Java out-of-the-box is console-based. Using Swing, old applets, web servlets, and the like seems a bit premature – instead of solving the problem, a lot would have to be explained about the wrapping. Any ideas? Dmitry Voloshin Vitaly Chibrikov

Yesterday we made a program to guess a selected number. But it’s not very fun. In my childhood, I wrote various simple games/programs on Turbo Pascal on DOS, with graphic or pseudographic interface… But with Java, I can’t seem to devise any fun…

June 20 2015, 13:19

If I accidentally enable scroll lock with an external keyboard on my Lenovo ThinkPad, it becomes impossible to work at home in Excel because the cursor behavior changes. And turning it off is almost impossible. I found a solution – the on-screen keyboard from Windows accessibility features. Lenovo came up with a cool idea by placing the Fn button where the usual Ctrl used to be, removing the scroll and introducing a touchpad whose entire surface is sensitive. I’ve been unable to get used to the touchpad for two years.

June 10 2015, 04:26

Can anyone explain why a Moscow State University student can’t relocate permanently to another country, on her own initiative, even if it’s recognized by many other states as “bad”? More than 8 million people live in ISIS, and their army consists of about 200,000. There seem to be no proofs that she was sent there as a terrorist. What if a person likes the Sharia laws and the caliphate, what’s the point of forcibly bringing them back? Would anyone care if she were 50 years old? Where is the line?

The only reasonable cause for her return, in my opinion, would be evidence that she didn’t go there to live and have children, but to kill people (using TNT or rifles – doesn’t really matter). But so far, no one mentions that (which means nothing)

June 06 2015, 07:40

I’ve been pondering the peculiar way Microsoft numbers its versions.

First there came three versions of Windows 1, 2, and 3 (not counting 2.1 and 3.1), and then there was an immediate leap to 95 and 98. Next, they opted for letter names – NT, ME, and XP. That didn’t last long either, and along came Vista.

It seems their creativity ended there, and Microsoft decided to return to using numbers. They figured the next version should be Windows 7, followed by Windows 8, continuing the numbering.

One would think the next version would be 9, but Microsoft decided to call it 10.

I just opened my Windows version window, and on my Windows 7 it shows version 6.1. http://clip2net.com/s/3iShYGb

Yet, the latest Windows 10 is NT version 10. Where version 9 went, only Microsoft knows.

It turns out that in MS there are separate versions, and separate commercial names, which are very similar to the versions.

Windows 95 is NT 4.0,

Windows 98 is NT 4.1

Windows 2000 is NT 5.0

Windows XP is NT 5.1

Windows Vista is NT 6.0

Windows 7 is NT 6.1

Windows 8 is NT 6.2

Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3

Windows 10 is NT 10

The earliest version I extensively worked with was Windows 3.11. Interestingly, version 3.2 only exists in Chinese.