LOL! Code easter egg! I love it!!

[JimWright949]

While working for Boeing Payroll Computing Support, I coded a program that summarizes dollars an employee earned. The variable I used for this total was TotalZorkmids.

-Jim

[Greg Ross]

Originally Posted by JimWright949

While working for Boeing Payroll Computing Support, I coded a program that summarizes dollars an employee earned. The variable I used for this total was TotalZorkmids.

-Jim

And if I were the one to have to work on that program later on, I would change the variable name as soon as I figured out what it was used for.

[JimWright949]

Greg,

The program was a 10-line COBOL program and I was guessing the name would not get though the Code Review. I was surprised when my co-workers told me it was a good line of code, even when I pointed it out in the review. The lines above it were summarizing other parts of the employees labor record so it was easy to understand what the last item was.

-Jim

[Eko]

Originally Posted by Robert Hafner

Sorry pal, but that cookie shall be mine! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, I got really excited when i found out the programming this year was going to be in C, and will continue to be excited until I screw it up, because its something I actually know very well, and I know that this will make the competition so much better.

I couldn't agree more!

Programming in C is going to be so much more useful than PBASIC. How many industries program in PBASIC? Any? Even if there are some, I can bet that there is barely a fraction of as many as do C/C++. I was totally heartbroken when I heard that the AP cirriculum switched to Java too. That is such a disservice to the Computer Sciences students. C/C++ will remain the industry standard for many years to come.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Eko

I was totally heartbroken when I heard that the AP cirriculum switched to Java too. That is such a disservice to the Computer Sciences students.

I disagree. 90% of computer science/computer engineering is about learning how to design and architect software, independent of a language. This is a primary difference between learning comp sci in high school/college versus goofing around at home and teaching yourself how to program. At home, you're likely to learn how to write code in one particular language well, but you're less likely to learn how to properly design software.

A good computer scientist/computer engineer should be able to adapt to any programming language in an extremely short amount of time.

Besides, Java and C++ are very similar anyway.

[galewind]

Well, they're similar in syntax, but not in ideology. But I suppose that's another discussion for another thread.

[Anthony Kesich]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Java! The work of the devil. No pointers! Everything... so much harder when the headache-inducers are removed. (That kids, is what you call a paradox)