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Programming Throwdown

BASIC

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This show covers Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC), a starter language for many programmers. Tools of the biweek: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Wireshark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:15.8

Programming throwdown, episode 19, basic.

0:19.5

Take it away, Jason.

0:21.7

Hey, everyone.

0:24.4

So I just got back from Tahoe.

0:31.3

For people who know, Lake Tahoe is a lake that sits on the border of California and Nevada.

0:33.4

And is that right?

0:34.9

I think so, yes.

0:37.3

I've been a lot of driving.

0:40.7

But basically, it's pretty fun. You can go skiing and winter in the summer.

0:44.0

You can go hiking and rafting and things like that.

0:48.2

And so we went rafting.

0:50.6

We actually saw a black bear that literally jumped in the water and started coming

0:55.4

towards the raft and we started freaking out but um but he didn't make it all the way to the raft so he got

1:02.9

about like 10 feet away and then he turned around and ran back but we lucky for all the inhabitants

1:08.8

of the raft i guess yeah exactly yeah we were wondering who we should throw feed the inhabitants of the raft, I guess. Yeah, exactly.

1:11.3

Yeah, we were wondering who we should throw, feed the bear. Well, the thing is, like, you don't have to be able to outrun the bear, just the slowest person. What happens if you're in a raft, though? If you're in a raft, you just have to be able to throw one person into the bear. Okay. You have to be the most liked, the most disliked person. The huge disadvantage.

1:07.9

Do you have time to take a vote?

1:09.6

Yeah, you could pretty much vote

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