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4:18 AM

Q: Structured Tag Cleanup: [software-development]

Related: Request for comment: structured tag cleanups Structured Tag Cleanup — Call for proposals #1 Welcome to the third structured tag cleanup! Based on the voting in the call for proposals, the second round goes to the software-development tag, with 282 current questions. ...

Structured Tag Cleanup: [software-development]

It appears that a lot of people are asking off topic questions to circumvent question bans on Stack Overflow. If you see a mod comment on a closed question along these lines please down vote to oblivion / vote to delete, no reason to keep that crap for a whole month (when they are usually autodeleted)

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Ashutosh Dave

1:45 PM

anyone taking algo class??

user20683

@AshutoshDave Here it's dangerous to prove alone, take this: ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/…

Ashutosh Dave

@WorldEngineer I am taking algo-class.org!!

user20683

@AshutoshDave I've had numerous peers swear by the MIT lectures being a good supplement to any algorithms class. As far as algo-class.org, it was not clear what you meant by that. I've seen multiple references to algo class being any algorithms class out there.

Ashutosh Dave

2:00 PM

@WorldEngineer You see I am taking this class at www.algo-class.org (by Stanford University) and I am having problem with merge sort!

user20683

what sort of problem?

Ashutosh Dave

@WorldEngineer How do i count inversions in merge sort??

user20683

@AshutoshDave search Stack Overflow for "Mergesort inversion"

user20683

2:43 PM

MS Word treats this as correctly spelled: C++: str3 = str1 + str2;

user20683

Ada: str3 := str1 & str2; this is ungrammatical

user20683

due to the :=

user20683

I smell bias

Stack Exchange

3:08 PM

Blog - Stack Exchange: Stack Overflow Meetup Everywhere: April 28, 2012

Laura Dobrzynski on March 26, 2012

Last year’s Stack Overflow Meetups were a success, with over 2000 people participating around the word. We’re happy to announce that the Second Annual Stack Overflow Meetup Day is April 28, 2012.

Because the Stack Exchange network grew so much over 2011, we’ve decided our Meetup day should grow, too. This year we’re calling on every hacker, programmer, or designer in the Stack Exchange tech community to meet up with other users, say hello, and maybe learn something. Whether you’re a member of Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Programmers, Ask Ubuntu, Game Development, or any other technology-themed Stack Exchange site, we want you to be a part of this event.* …

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Sameer

4:13 PM

hey this is my first day here

psr

4:27 PM

@Sameer - (In unison) "Hiii Sameer"

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Rachel

5:53 PM

@Sameer Hello :)

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Jim G.

7:52 PM

@Sameer: How's it going? I'm still getting used to this chat thing too. It doesn't work like normal chat in the sense that it's long running.

Rachel

8:04 PM

@JimG Hi :)

Jae

Question: For general software dev, what do you think I should learn first: Trig or Pre-Calculus?

Rachel

Pre-Calc, for no real reason other than that I like it better :)

Jae

@Rachel: Lemme rephrase that :). What do you use more as a programmer...

psr

@Jae - Depends on the kind of programming. In my case, a big fat neither. But calculus seems more likely to have some sort of use for me. I'm not entirely sure what they teach in pre Calculus.

user2334

8:24 PM

@psr In New York, it was advanced trigonometry and the very basics of Calculus (how to do simple derivatives, but no integration at all)

user2334

Precalculus

In American mathematics education, precalculus (or Algebra 3 in some areas), an advanced form of secondary school algebra, is a foundational mathematical discipline. It is also called Introduction to Analysis. In many schools, precalculus is actually two separate courses: Algebra and Trigonometry. Precalculus prepares students for calculus the same way as pre-algebra prepares students for Algebra I. While pre-algebra teaches students many different fundamental algebra topics, precalculus does not involve calculus, but explores topics that will be applied in calculus. Some precalculus cou...

psr

8:40 PM

I never had pre-algebra either. I couldn't, since I missed pre-pre-algebgra.

Jae

8:56 PM

@MarkTrapp @psr: Reason I'm asking is that I'm going to learn both eventually; just wanted to see what to do first...

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