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Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python. The class aims to teach students how to write code for each of these individual languages and to understand the programming paradigms behind these languages.

Source: Geek & Poke

Goosh goosh.org 0.4.3-beta #1 Mon, 02 Jun 08 22:28:01 UTC Google/Ajax

Welcome to goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.
You type commands and the results are shown on this page.

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A new type of video surveillance vehicle aiming to capture random Romans on a sunny afternoon? Nope.

It was the seemingly more benign Google Maps vehicle. After snapping a few photos on my Nokia N95, I was asked by a group of pensioners who was driving the offending vehicle. “Google”, I informed them. “They are filming the city, street-by-street”, I added. They just shook their heads in bafflement. LINK

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There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown.A survey by the organisation found that broadband packages promising speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second) actually achieved far less.Tests of 300 customers’ net connections revealed that the average download speed they were getting was 2.7Mbps. More…

Stephen Dukker, NComputing CEO says:

Only if you believe that OLPC and Intel’s $200 laptop, with their PDA-like, seven-inch screens and obsolete processors are the answer. But the developing world is not just “village kids,” but rather motivated, ambitious people engaged in business, agriculture, commerce, health care, finance and education. CNET

Note: NComputers (via it’s chinese subcontractor Heier) has been selected by the Macedonian Government to equip 108.000 thin-clients and servers in elementary and high schools.

And God said, Let there be Google: and there was Google. And God saw the Google, that it was good.  (анонимен автор)

“Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the internet.” More…

…A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined 12 percent from a year ago. Just 64.8 percent targeted the platform as opposed to 74 percent in 2006.

“We attribute [the decline] largely to the increase in developers beginning to target Linux and different Linux [distributions]…

…The arrival of Windows Vista likely only kept the numbers from being even worse. “I think Vista probably offset some of the decline,”…

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