jojo14

I don't hate Micro-soft however I like the truth. Do you know the BASIC was open source ? Wikipedia is your friend.

I wouldn't call that an easter egg. IMHO it's rather a backdoor. A covert method to gain access to information about the system. Indeed what is the benefit to the user? No need to feed the mythology about BG. He was not a developer. Period.

Where is the Linux version ?

XDG specs are crap. Sure one single ~/.config folder is a very good idea. But I want it clearly visible such as ~/config. But I don't want an additional and confusing ~/.local.

Plus I don't want ~/Videos or ~/Pictures folders. I am not dumb. Let me organize my folders according to my needs and my will.

The first thing I do when I setup a user account is removing those useless XDG folders.

XDG pretend to remove folder clusterfuck then why do they add their crappy folders?

I use Vim infrequently. I know it and if it was the only option I'd be efficient with it. I've even started with Vi as the only option. However I prefer Emacs because I feel way more efficient and comfortable with it. As a bonus main key bindings are consistent with Bash and others GNU tools. The course should introduce Emacs as well so that students can choose on their own. Whatever your preferred editor is IMHO it is up to an IDE to integrate with it.

If an AI were meant to write code it would be Python. That is english with very few syntactic sugar mainly parens and colons.

Unless the result wouldn't be meant to be read nor understood by anyone.

IMHO Python is the closest to pseudo-code specifications.

This is not quite surprising as I experienced a few times that kids understand pretty well a CLI rather than a GUI. As soon as they can read the concept of a REPL is rather straightforward for many so called computer "illiterates". Say something to the computer through writing it on the keyboard then wait for the processing of it and finally see the result displayed on the screen. Plus the history of commands is also very intuitive. Is it because it's all based on natural language faculties that we all possess as soon as we are born?

Make it more like a laptop whiteout a screen but with a full sized trackpad and I will buy it !

"before the user perceives a delay": I agree with you.

For any UX/UI designer out there a delay is perceived when it is greater than 200ms. Those are milliseconds.

I don't mean to be rude, but what is the point ?

AFAIK the % operator is not deprecated. In fact % formatting being syntactically near identical to C is a feature to me. I use format strings as well depending on context.

% formatting being older doesn't mean it's obsolete.

That said it is cool to design a script to transform your code and any time you spent in the developing of automation is time earned.

Isn't it more like the following?:

  git clone https://github.com/github/dmca.git
  git fetch origin pull/8142/head
  git checkout FETCH_HEAD

I remember how as a little boy I was instantly hooked on my father's Dragon32 and its BASIC interpreter.

A screen plus keyboard plus an instant-on Micropython board setup would be very appealing to children.