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Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game

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Martin Gregorie wrote:

> > Caveat: that only applies if it's obvious, without hindsight, that you
> > can easily find out by searching. So, when there's an obvious, fairly
> > specific search to use, [...].
>
> Don't read all that carefully, do you? Ponder the meaning of "something
> you could easily have found out by searching" and reconsider your caveat.

More than that, I think.  Skill in using the Net to find information is now a 
vital part of every professional programmer's toolkit (I say "every" but I 
admit there may be some exceptions).  Nobody expects beginners to have that 
skill -- searching for, /and identifying/, reliable technical information is a 
skill in itself which is not (as far as I know) taught, and doesn't (as far as 
I know) come all that naturally (I've watched many Net-generation people search 
for technical stuff and make a mess of it).

It's no shame to encourage a beginner to practise a skill s/he will be 
dependent on for the foreseeable future.

OTOH, practise does need some sort of confirmation -- I can easily practise 
spotting which of the people I see around me are really space aliens, members 
of MI6, whatever.  But without confirmation I can't get better at it.  So 
/only/ saying "use Google" is also less helpful than it could be.

So -- IMO -- one good template for answers might be:
    Here are the basics, ...  For more information, look for search terms like
    xxx, yyy.  You may have to filter out references to zzz since that's a
    completely different topic.

    -- chris 

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Help with paper, rock, scissors game scottwd01@gmail.com - 2014-07-18 23:35 -0700
  Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2014-07-19 02:19 -0500
    Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game scottwd01@gmail.com - 2014-07-19 00:34 -0700
      Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2014-07-19 03:49 -0500
  Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-07-19 08:39 +0100
    Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game scottwd01@gmail.com - 2014-07-19 22:38 -0700
      Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-07-19 23:12 -0700
        Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-07-20 10:49 +0000
          Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game scottwd01@gmail.com - 2014-07-20 18:37 -0700
            Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game scottwd01@gmail.com - 2014-07-20 18:47 -0700
              Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-07-21 12:01 +0000
                Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game ĵess stone <jess.st0ne@gmail.com> - 2014-07-21 21:59 +0000
                Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-07-21 22:22 +0000
                Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game ĵess stone <jess.st0ne@gmail.com> - 2014-07-21 22:35 +0000
                Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-07-22 13:56 +0100
        Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-07-20 12:29 +0100
          Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-07-20 20:10 -0700
  Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-19 02:51 -0700

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