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Re: lectures about "programming methodology"

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From	Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com>
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On 05/06/2013 03:23 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    He said that a variable had a name. This is not always true
>    in Java (he referred to Java, since he is exclusively using
>    Java). In Java there also are anonymous variables, like the
>    variables of an array.

I know that you are particular precise about thing, but I'm pretty sure, 
he will teach that arrays have elements. And he pretty much never 
mention the term "anonymous variable" to describe these elements.
To be honest, the notion "anonymous vairable" is really not necessary to 
understand how arrays work - and to be honest, your posting is the first 
time I read that term.

>    He said that the remainder operator »%« can only be applied
>    to integers. This also is not true in Java IIRC.

:-) This seems to be a popular misconception. A floating point modulo 
operation doesn't seem to feel very "natural" to many people. When I 
mention it, they usually ask me for the definition.

>    I am actually watching this to learn English pronunciation
>    of programming terms (otherwise, I just would read a text),
>    and what I /did/ like was that for the word »char« he gave
>    the pronunciations of /kA&/ and /kæ&/ (where A is the open
>    back unrounded vowel and & is the schwar), which I also use
>    (/kA&/). Bjarne Stroustrup says it was /tSA&/ (where tS is
>    the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate), well, maybe that
>    is valid for C++ programmers ...

char is short for character, isn't it?

Regards,
   Sven

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Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 16:56 +0300
  Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 17:24 +0300
  Re: lectures about "programming methodology" David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2013-05-07 18:01 -0400

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