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Mine GO BOOM Hunch Hunch What What

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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:01 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: I want to learn - Suggest reading material |
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- Photo editing
- Programming
- Doygen Manual - To better document your source code, because you are a lazy bastard
- POSIX Threads - Threading is the future, and this works on almost anything
- SDL - Because Java GUIs suck
- wxWidgets - Because sometimes SDL is too much
- Win32 API Tutorial - Because you want to smash your brains with a hammer
- Python - Because Perl is too much
- CPAN - Because Perl is too much
- Microprocessors
- AVR Butterfly - Its only $20 and works via serial cable with a bootloader
- Beginners Site for AVR Butterfly - Never worked with a microprocessor before? Lots of tutorials and sample code
- WinAVR - C is much nicer to use than ASM constantly. So why not use GCC to program your AVR?
- AVR Studio - A free IDE and simulator for your AVR. You'll screw up somewhere, might as well debug it virtually as well.
- Electronic Circuits - Need some suggestions for what to hookup to your microcontroller.
- Linux
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Muskrat Server Help Squatter

Age:38 Joined: Aug 24 2004 Posts: 829 Location: Swamp Offline
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:15 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: Re: I want to learn - Suggest reading material |
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The Elements of Style - Best book ever for any writing in the English language. Short and sweet. |
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SamHughes Server Help Squatter

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K' You can win any war if you start a year early

Gender: Joined: Jul 13 2006 Posts: 271 Location: Southtown Offline
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Cyan~Fire I'll count you!

Age:37 Gender: Joined: Jul 14 2003 Posts: 4608 Location: A Dream Offline
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:41 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Awesome.
*doxygen _________________ This help is informational only. No representation is made or warranty given as to its content. User assumes all risk of use. Cyan~Fire assumes no responsibility for any loss or delay resulting from such use.
Wise men STILL seek Him. |
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Blocks Novice

Joined: Jul 13 2006 Posts: 95 Location: California Offline
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:06 am Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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I used this book. I think I learned something, but I don't know because it was all in SCHEME!
Introductory Physics: Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway and Jewett (this is a real book) |
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:01 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Is there anything else like this but more up2date? |
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SamHughes Server Help Squatter

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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:46 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Um, the second edition?
It is up to date. |
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Blocks Novice

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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:18 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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SamHughes wrote: | It is up to date. |
He is referring to the fact that the book teaches how to program in an awful language that makes you dream of burning parentheses.
I think the point of the book is to make sure you actually learn how to program. If the book taught in C++, there'd be some hot-shot programmer kiddo who thinks he's all that who would be able to do the exercises in that book easily ... without learning anything. Teaching in Scheme ensures that everybody has to learn to crawl, then walk, then run. Oh the metaphorical goodness. |
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Mine GO BOOM Hunch Hunch What What

Age:41 Gender: Joined: Aug 01 2002 Posts: 3615 Location: Las Vegas Offline
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:44 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Solo Ace Yeah, I'm in touch with reality...we correspond from time to time.

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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:06 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Yeah, really, how could you forget beej? |
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Quan Chi2 Member of "Sexy Teenagers that Code" Group

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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:39 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Programming
Reversing/Application hacking
Reverse Engineering Forum - great, great, great material within this forum. Very comfortable atmosphere for anyone into reversing.
PullThePlug - Great war games for anyone into reverse engineering. Great programming exercises.
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

Age:37 Gender: Joined: May 01 2004 Posts: 821 Location: Middle Tennessee Offline
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:48 am Post maybe stupid Post subject: Re: I want to learn - Suggest reading material |
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Mine GO BOOM wrote: |
SDL - Because Java GUIs suck |
The Linux PDF is down... Here's a rehost: http://pil.pl/~mariuszj/rozne/plg-second-printing-update.pdf . But on a side note, isn't SDL supposed to be cross-platform? |
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Cyan~Fire I'll count you!

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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:00 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: Re: I want to learn - Suggest reading material |
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Yes. |
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:00 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Anyone have a good VMWare tutorial? |
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Maverick

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:07 am Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:30 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Um... I don't know, do I? I kinda just assumed it was complex. |
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Solo Ace Yeah, I'm in touch with reality...we correspond from time to time.

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:24 am Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Nah, it's too easy to be true. But it is true anyway.
If you can't figure out something, Google would be a better solution than simply a tutorial. |
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:11 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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Well, I generally like to have a step-by-step guide when going through something like that. And installing an OS inside of an OS sounds pretty major. But I've been juggling my time between MAME and Greek recently and haven't really gotten to trying this out. |
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Mine GO BOOM Hunch Hunch What What

Age:41 Gender: Joined: Aug 01 2002 Posts: 3615 Location: Las Vegas Offline
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:50 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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- Download VMware Server
- Download Ubuntu 7.10 premade image
- In VMware, select that image and hit Start.
You are now running Ubuntu inside of Windows, with all the needed tools already installed into the client operating system. Want steps for Windows?
- In VMware Server, do New Virtual Machine
- Select Windows from choices, pick disk size/memory you want allocated
- Insert a Windows installation disk into your system (close any auto-run Windows). If you have any other CD/DVD drives, leave them empty.
- In your new virtual machine, click start. Will auto-detect a CD/DVD drive to run. Follow normal Windows steps.
The VMware guys made it really easy to run. Give it a shot, it is free. If you run Subspace software, you can easily do VMware. |
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Cheese Wow Cheese is so helpful!

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sticky this plz _________________ SSC Distension Owner
SSCU Trench Wars Developer |
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:43 pm Post maybe stupid Post subject: |
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I just realized I have VMWare Player. I guess that's a completely different thing than VMWare Server. |
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LearJett+ Server Help Squatter
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The Peloponnesian War -- Thucydides _________________
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Animate Dreams Gotta buy them all! (Consumer whore)

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This is a great topic. Probably the best on the whole site. It shouldn't be so far down.
I came in here looking for an introduction to makefiles(I hope I'm not supposed to figure out how those work from just reading them), but I don't see anything. If anyone knows a good place to check out, let me know.
On a side note, the SDL tutorial linked in the OP is outdated. This( http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php ) seems to be the most popular one, which I hope means it's a good one. You might want to update the OP a bit. |
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Samapico No, these DO NOT look like penises, ok?

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This should be pinned somewhere, really _________________ (Insert a bunch of dead links here) |
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