begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:44:49PM -0800:
> SJS wrote:
> >begin quoting Mark Schoonover as of Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:28:46AM -0800:
> >>To get started, the online videos can be found here:
> >I find "online video" to be incredibly tedious. If it isn't over and
> >done in ninety seconds, I tend to abort and move on.
>
> Actually, if you download the videos via bittorrent and watch them full
> screen on your local machine it isn't bad at all. Much better than
> watching the little window of a flash app.
That's not the problem at all. It's not the size of the video... it's
that I'm stuck there forced to passively accept information; the only
action I /can/ take is to abort it. So I do, eventually.
[snip]
> It's rather fun to watch them use that old computer (anyone able to
> identify it?) to run their basic little code examples. 40 column screen,
> very slow to return the results of even (+ 1 1) and you can hear the fan
> whirring when he is over nearby it.
Heh. What are they using, an Apple ][?
("Watch the video, yeah, yeah...")
> >The PDF conversion may be useful; from that I can make a hardcopy and
> >follow along with the discussios on the list. That might be amusing.
>
> I printed out the PDF and have a hardcopy. Make sure you use a duplex
> printer. It's rather large. I have it all 3 hole punched in a binder.
> Wish it were cheaper to have stuff actually bound.
$5 is expensive?
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Velo-bind at Kinkos, plus a sharpie to write the title on the spine.
Stewart Stremler
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