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[Squeegy]

I'm not sure if probability works quite like that.

1. One of the participants in the conversation is known to be female, the other unknown (at the time), and it is not known which the pronoun "he" referred to
2. The female/male ratio of users on bay 12 is less than 1, but more than 0
3. Due to 1 and 2, I had somewhat more than a 50% chance to be correct when saying "she?"

• Publicly available on my profile!
• It is exactly 0.07575 repeating.
• That is technically correct (50% from Skyrunner being female, 7.6% from an unknown user being male or female), except that both of our genders are readily available, so you actually had a 0% chance.

[Skyrunner]

Yeah, probably. I have little programming experience so I just assume all of my opinions are rather dumb.

After seeing the work you did on tgstation, I'd say you're rather more competent than most programmers.

If only I could be so grossly competent!

Dynamic typing is not to be confused with weak typing--Javascript is both dynamic and weak, Python is dynamic and strong, and C or Java are static and strong. I don't know of a ststic and weak language though.

[Putnam]

How are you defining weak and strong there? Looking it up tells me nothing...

[Orange Wizard]

Strongly-typed IIRC means that you can't do this

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i = 1 + "2"
without the compiler/interpreter throwing an error.

[Parsely]

I thought, as a rule, you couldn't mix strings and constants in a variable?

[Orange Wizard]

Many languages allow it. They will either convert the int to a string, or the string to an int, and then perform the operation. Java (I think) will return 3, whereas Javascript will return 12. I might have them 'round the wrong way. Squeegy will enlighten me, no doubt.

Other languages are weird, like C, which uses the pointer to the string and adds the int to it, or something. I can't actually remember.

Python, and other languages that I don't recall, are strongly-typed, and will return a type error when given that code.

[Parsely]

Oh, that's really good to know!

[Skyrunner]

How are you defining weak and strong there? Looking it up tells me nothing...

Well, apparently both are not well defined,  at Wikipedia's Strong & weak typing page. I personally view it as to the degree that implicit conversions between types are allowed.

[Rose]

Yeah, C# will convert the int to a string, then add them together. C++ does that as well if you're working with std::string, but not with C style strings.

[miauw62]

Yeah, probably. I have little programming experience so I just assume all of my opinions are rather dumb.

After seeing the work you did on tgstation, I'd say you're rather more competent than most programmers.

Thanks c:

[Parsely]

Code: [Select]

start

num firstOperand
num secondOperand
num myAnswer

input firstOperand
input secondOperand

multiplyBot()
     myAnswer = firstOperand * secondOperand
     display myAnswer

endIs this how modules work? It's just pseudo code, so I know there's no "right" way to do it, but is this logic functional? Does it make sense?

Task is to create a module function that has two input parameters.

Not entirely sure if thisd be called a module, module is usually synonymous with library.
A function/method would be a better name. And youd want to define all your variables inside the function, and either get your input inside or pass it as an argument.

Right, according to the book I have modules = functions.

* GUNINANRUNIN burns his book.

[miauw62]

Code: [Select]

start

num firstOperand
num secondOperand
num myAnswer

input firstOperand
input secondOperand

multiplyBot()
     myAnswer = firstOperand * secondOperand
     display myAnswer

endIs this how modules work? It's just pseudo code, so I know there's no "right" way to do it, but is this logic functional? Does it make sense?

Task is to create a module function that has two input parameters.

Not entirely sure if thisd be called a module, module is usually synonymous with library.
A function/method would be a better name. And youd want to define all your variables inside the function, and either get your input inside or pass it as an argument.

Right, according to the book I have modules = functions.

* GUNINANRUNIN burns his book.

http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html

[Squeegy]

Java's typing is admittedly weird. You can't compare two strings together because it will just look at the fact that they are both strings and declare them equal. You have to do "string1.equals(string2)".

Python is my language of choice, though I won't be using it forever since it's a scripting language and not made to be compiled. But it certainly has things that could be done better.

[Putnam]

Python is my language of choice, though I won't be using it forever since it's a scripting language and not made to be compiled.

To be fair, this is becoming less of a problem over time AFAIK.

[Squeegy]

Until Windows ships with Python in the far off year of Never AD, it will always be a problem because it prevents anyone from using your software unless they download Python. That's what executables are for, delivering the experience to everyone on the OS.