Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 16:56:05 +0300 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de VhX9PtYeJe2UC6bfn/f27wF5I5xW+VCcx2hfouiAv1E5DTvGnJFMgjRkYo Cancel-Lock: sha1:r8Nnhe7OZ39TPdVeh07hM4Dg3QI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23849 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 /kę&/ (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