#programming fundamentals

[tpointtechblog]

What is C? A Beginner’s Guide to C Language and C Programming

what C is, why it’s important, and how you can get started with C programming When it comes to programming languages, C holds a special place as one of the most popular and foundational languages in the software development world.

Whether you’re just starting your coding journey or want to build a strong base for advanced programming, understanding C is essential. Let’s dive into what C is, why…

[the-ancient-comedy]

Where in Gotham is Pennsylvania Avenue

[gamecodelibrary]

2min vid on how to add sound effects quick and easy to your unity game! Also shows you how to randomise the pitch to keep things interesting

:-)

[nimblermortal]

Multiple people in the last two days have proposed Goblin Emperor/Murderbot crossover fic, which is a fascinating conclusion to jump to, but I would like to propose the setup to this fic:

Murderbot is contracted to a service that results in its killing a couple of humans. Its contract ends, and it is immediately contracted to guard investigator Thara Celehar and ensure that the murderer does not harm him while he investigates.

Celehar is absolutely working himself into the ground. Murderbot is 100% calling this one in. Following Celehar around providing no assistance whatsoever.

Celehar: The corpses said they did not see their attacker, but there was evidence the attacker was very fast Murderbot: Curious.

Eventually Celehar works round to uncovering the truth, which Murderbot does nothing to hide from him, because it is a tool and ultimately the people to blame are the ones who contracted it so what does it care.

Celehar: Why didn't you SAY you did it at ANY POINT in the last TWO WEEKS? Murderbot: You didn't ask. Also it gave me time to catch up on my media.

It was hired to make sure the murderer does not try to harm the investigator, and it is achieving that mission.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

[weepingwitch]

anyway this time with assembly code has taught me that goto/jump commands are actually the most logical and straightforward way to write code, other program flow control logic patterns are just unnecessary padding that obfuscate what is really happening and keep you alienated from the experience of the processor

[filmfactors]

Since I'm on the topic, something I think about Turbo is that the nervous giggles he does when stressed/upset, etc isn't faked- I really like to believe he's always had that or adapted it during those years alone.

Or at least it wasn't as intense as a full body reaction, if he's always done that. [gestures at that one King Candy storyboard.]

[navree]

one thing i like about how they did ai brainiac here is that most people would be aware that sentient beings don't want to be conquered like he wants to do to earth or brainwashed like he's been doing to kara. but brainiac isn't people. he's a machine, he is programming, there is sentience but he is not actually a person. and he clearly doesn't understand when things go against his plans, when he can't program the real world into doing what he wants. it's why he's legitimately angry that earth is trying to resist his invasion, why he's legitimately upset and disappointed that kara would rebel against him and try to be her own person. because personhood is not something that computes with him, on a fundamental level, he doesn't understand it or free will or the concept of independent choice. it's an interesting view at how "sentient ai" might actually work and also react to the things around it.

[bookinit02]

having an entirely unique problem right now where i want to brag about my grad school plans in my instagram caption but my extended family follows me and i have been lying to my parents about my major for the last four years . why have i done this? who knows🙂

[eileensdress]

*bites him*

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I think we need to put the word "intuitive" up on the shelf for companies until they stop defining it as "minimalism" and "gestures that look like you're using a holographic scifi screen"

[12neonlit-stage]

I go by no pronouns but not as in my name, more so like my pronouns are an undefined variable in shell coding

[gamecodelibrary]

Finishing up the mini top down series with adding enemies! This video we get them chasing our player.

Check it out if you have a spare 3mins! :-) And subscribe to join our adventure of becoming game devs.

[solivagantingrebel]

hey guys who wants another round of tmi

[kn-1013]

i know i've been on my anti-modern AU propaganda lately and it's just because i've been delving deeper into the sally face ao3 tags and i just keep finding them over and over. it's frustrating because there are a lot of really interesting concepts out there that would fit really well and make for a genuinely really interesting story in the 90s, but they get thrown off because the author doesn't know enough about the 90s to write for that time period, so they make it into a modern au instead. there's nothing inherently wrong with that, and i think there's room for modern aus to be done well here, i even have my own half-serious modern au, but i do think you often lose part of what makes sally face special when you turn the story into any other kind of contemporary love story/horror story/etc where all the characters just have ~iphones~ and use ~snapchat~ and all these things.

like, the 90s was not some kind of alien planet, and a vast number of the problems that you're solving with smartphones can be worked around very easily with just a bit of research or thought. long distance walkie-talkies, pagers, and PDAs were all (though sometimes expensive) perfectly capable contemporary technologies for talking to people when you are not physically with them. in fact, a lot of the abbreviations and slang we use over text right now was developed by young people in the 90s using pagers to talk to their friends. PDAs were a bit more out there in the 90s than they were in the aughts, but it's still completely plausible for henry in particular to have one, considering he already owns a home computer, which was not at all ubiquitous in the 90s. considering the apparent financial limitations that he and sal live under (it's never stated explicitly, but i mean, they live at addison's, they can't be in a great financial situation) and how insanely expensive computers were back then, it's more than likely that henry's job requires a home computer of some sort, meaning that a PDA would probably be incredibly useful to him if he were away from it, because there's no way in hell he's getting himself a luggable or another kind of early laptop to bring with him, that would've been too expensive.

and that's ignoring the fact that so many situations where two characters are apart form each other but need to communicate could just be fixed by rewriting the plot so that they can meet in person. i know that's not what people wanna hear because rewriting sucks, but you can find a lot of reasons for characters to meet each other randomly or to have reasons to meet up later if you give it a bit of problem-solving. part of what makes the pre-smartphone era interesting to write for and so optimized for horror, and probably a big reason that gabry chose this time period for the story in the first place, is the level of disconnection between each character in the story BECAUSE they don't have things like smartphones. having to work around this technological limitation is part of the fun, because you get a very enjoyable push and pull of closeness vs. disconnection between each character.

this is great for alienating ash, the only one who doesn't live in the apartments (except for neil), and causing her internal conflict about her relationships with the rest of her friends, especially as the story progresses and they start discovering more shit about the cult, and her instincts are to call the cops because she's a lot more normal than her friends are. or, it's good for alienating travis, who also doesn't live there and is far more isolated than everyone else (more on that next), or for creating an unhealthy and codependent relationship between sal and larry, who, with the walkies, are the only two in the friend group who DO have semi-instant access to each other all the time--all of which are plot points i put into my writing.

and if that's not enough, think about the implications for travis's character in particular. his father is a preacher, and a huge talking point of christian extremists in the 90s was that things like television were evil and demonic in some way. they campaigned against these things heavily. with the kind of person that we know kenneth phelps to be and the way many technologies we take for granted today, including TVs, were still being adopted by older generations, it's not out of the question at all that travis doesn't own something like a TV or a VCR, putting him even more out of the loop with what other people his age are doing than he already would be, having approximately 0 friends. he doesn't know what DND is, and he doesn't know how to look it up because he's not familiar with computers or the internet, he just knows his dad thinks it's demonic, so he steers clear of it.

the intention of cult leaders like kenneth is to keep their victims as isolated as possible, and not owning a TV, VCR, home computer, etc, is a great way to keep travis and his sisters isolated and disconnected from their peers, and therefore more connected to the cult, and it's a lot easier to justify not owning these things in the 90s, where the story already takes place, than it is if you're writing a modern au. a modern au for this situation would require all kinds of technological workarounds to make sure that travis owned a phone but couldn't do anything his father didn't want him doing on it. he's the kind of father who would go through and monitor his kid's texts, he wouldn't just let travis have snapchat or whatever, but i digress.

i know i'm just doing my petty bitching and people can do whatever they want however they want to, but i really do feel like there's a huge piece of the story that is lost in turning the sally face story as it is into some kind of modern au, and it's pretty unfortunate to me that people seem to think that the 90s was such a primitive alien world of incomprehensible technology that they don't want to write for that time period at all. it's really not as terrifying as it seems, genuinely. a surface level understanding of the era's technologies would be straightforward enough for anyone who wasn't there to write something perfectly coherent, if lacking in specific cultural/technological details that nobody but me cares about because i have autism.

if you're a sally face fan reading this and you struggle with writing for the american 90s because you weren't there, go look up pagers (also called beepers) and PDAs (which are basically early pocket computers) and how they work. ask older family members if or how they used them. go look at the different kinds of home computers of the era from companies like packard-bell and IBM. learn what a pentium III is/was, or what it means to be X86 compatible. look at the history of the CD-ROM, and how when it was invented, it could contain so much data that consumers had absolutely no idea what to do with them until people started putting video games on them. go watch cathode ray dude, LGR or techmoan on youtube.

go learn things about this era, it's good for you and you will have a lot of fun, even if you're not like me, i promise, and your fanfiction will be better for it. please learn about this era. take my hand. we can go to beautiful places together.

[enlighten3d]

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