How to be a bigger geek than Jonesy
— Recently, my old colleague Jason Jones shamelessly outed himself as a major duomo geek of sorts. “Last night was a good one,” claims Jonesy, “I was recalling how I used…”
Recently, my old colleague Jason Jones shamelessly outed himself as a major duomo geek of sorts. “Last night was a good one,” claims Jonesy, “I was recalling how I used to struggle with EMM386 back in the old win 3.1 days – oh how I laughed…”. Indeed.
c-jump: doubtless selling like hotcakes
Well, in a year or two’s time, young Frances could go one better with c-jump, an exciting board game that, in the words of its maker, “helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java”.
c-jump cleverly engages little users with its ice-cool skiing / snowboarding analogy. Why not check out c-jump now, and download a free demo that enables you to “understand interaction[s] between containers, iterators, and algorithms of the C++ Standard Library”.
Thanks to B3TA for the alert on this one. B3TA has a long and distinguished pedigree as a fine purveyor of utter crap, though sadly and all too often you’ll find it blocked by those corporate firewalls that lack a sense of humour.
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September 7th, 2006 at 18:59
The box states that the game is for 11+. I would have hoped that by that age she would be thinking in pure assembly. Either that or social services would have had words about my excessively dogmatic paternal style.
With products like this though, I am seriously jealous of the opportunites that kids have.