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Old 10-21-2013, 12:30 AM
 
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im trying to find someone and i surfed CL and found hardly anything in the city.

not to do my work, but to help me actually understand some stuff i need help with. I cant make it to my teachers office hours due to work and classes so im looking for someone for an hour or two at least once a week.

this is in java btw.
any help is helpful and thanks!
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Old 10-21-2013, 04:51 AM
 
Location: Awkward Manor
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Do you know about lynda.com? You can access it through my.pitt. I see there are a couple of Java tutorials. Not that it is better than a personal tutor!
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Old 10-21-2013, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Plum Borough, east suburb of Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm fairly proficient with Java, having gotten all the way up to Algorithm Implementation (i.e. memoization, breadth-first search, common substrings, etc.), and I am learning C right now. Hit me up with a private message if you want to discuss further.
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Old 10-21-2013, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Mt. Lebanon
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Here, here... 20+ of experience in java, c++ and other falvors of C, VB and other older languages.

You can send me questions. I don;t have time for tutoring though.

If you want tutoring one on one try clubz in home tutoring

some friends of mine had very good experience with them. they work one on one from what I understand and come to your house.
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Old 10-21-2013, 01:25 PM
 
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ive tried lynda, but like youtube it leaves me confused. its mostly some stuff im confused on and how to implement it.

thanks for the advice and ill pm you soon.
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Old 10-21-2013, 09:34 PM
 
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I'm also a programmer, if you want to post your questions here one of us could probably answer your questions.
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Old 10-22-2013, 06:24 AM
 
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I'm also a programmer, if you want to post your questions here one of us could probably answer your questions.
and we could argue over the best approach/solution!! go for it
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Old 10-22-2013, 07:37 AM
 
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I really wish schools would stop using Java as an entry level language. It is too complex and too big for a newbie. While I know BASIC is no longer relevant, it never really was in the first place. It is much better to start with a simple procedural language to get students through the basic concepts then move on to a more real world language.
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Old 10-22-2013, 08:11 AM
 
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I really wish schools would stop using Java as an entry level language. It is too complex and too big for a newbie. While I know BASIC is no longer relevant, it never really was in the first place. It is much better to start with a simple procedural language to get students through the basic concepts then move on to a more real world language.
I agree, I think it's better to start with something that really doesn't require an IDE. Or that at least uses a very simplistic IDE that makes it easy for them to see what their code is doing. Procedural is way easier to understand from scratch than OO.

My first real language was Pascal because that was what they used in my high school programming class. It was a pretty good place to start I think.
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Old 10-22-2013, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Mt. Lebanon
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Oh guys, I started with Fortran which is still used, by the way. Same with basic. When I retire I plan on working few month per year taking assignments in "dead" languages nobody knows anymore

to the OP: ask here.

Oh, and to make the picture complete, you guys don;t know how good you have it. In college I had to punch cards and take them to the compiler. I dropped them on the floor few times and I had to start from scratch. SO you are compliaining about an IDE? Guys, guys LOL
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