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Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Are you primarily a C programmer @Lilyheart ?

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

I plan on bringing @MontBot to the 1/11 meetup. It was mostly built during one of the last meetups. lol

I only know enough C to make arduino code do what I need it to xD

web dev and Java as MCCC uses Java in most of their classes where I am a student.

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Right, well, I'm no Linus Torvalds myself or anything xD

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

lol He is my spirit animal xD

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Most of my experience is actually in C++

@Lilyheart Haha, you should tell him that

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

I'm.... not sure how he'd react to that.

tersely I'd imagine. lol

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

I don't know, maybe you should send him a babka along with the message. Y'know, just to smooth things over.

I know I'd love to get a babka in the mail

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

who wouldn't :laughing:

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Certainly no one that I'd want to hang out with xD

Jonathan Herman

@lantech19446

lol

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

brb

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Anyone have any experience with NES programming, per chance? It's something I've always wanted to explore, but I can't find any decent documentation. All I've got so far is a sprite that I can move across the screen.

gpsims

@gpsims

@Lilyheart on that sentence, where do i need quotations around each variable?

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

@gpsims variables don't need quotes, but any string literals do. So if the test sentence would end up being The big dog ran quickly home. and {big, dog, ran, quickly} are words that change, then {The, home.}(and the spaces between words) are strings that you want literally in every output. The non changing parts need "

gpsims

@gpsims

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

Here is how you solved the Constructing Strings with Variables challenge if that helps to go back and see what you did.

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

@gpsims Is something like this what you're attempting?: "The" + varNoun + varVerb + varAdjective + "home.";

gpsims

@gpsims

yes

this is what i have

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

@gpsims like @Lilyheart said - whatever needs to change goes into a variable, and whatever doesn't need to change goes in " "

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

Just remember to watch your spaces! Here is the challenge Michael.

gpsims

@gpsims

result= "The " + myAdjective + myNoun + myVerb + myAdverb + " home.";

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

The bigdogranquickly home.

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

Yeah you have to add spaces

So like "The " + var + " " + anotherVar, etc.

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

So I start with result = "The big dog ran quickly home."; Then I delete the letters big and replace with " + myAdjective + " then replace the letters dog with " + myNoun + " etc. Then you know the spaces will stick.

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

That's a good idea @Lilyheart. I'd go with that @gpsims. That way you know the formatting won't be goofed in the end.

gpsims

@gpsims

ok retyping it now

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

@gpsims On this page you can find the challenge and see how I solved it if that helps.

gpsims

@gpsims

thank you, i had my quotes all screwed up

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

@gpsims if you come to a meetup, remind me, and I'll show you how I actually type it in so I know my quotes don't get all wonky. It's hard to explain over text xD

gpsims

@gpsims

ok no problem

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

This is a very helpful subreddit for people looking to teach themselves how to program btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

That's a good one! I also recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/ for daily challenges.

And https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/ for when you need a giggle.

Jonathan Herman

@lantech19446

I'm in learnprogramming just beware the opinion that disagrees with anyone in that sub, I also like programmerhumor

gpsims

@gpsims

awesome, thanks for the resources, gotta run, see you guys next week!

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

See ya Gary

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

So is jQuery really outdated now or what?

Everyone's telling me to not bother with it anymore

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

From what I understand... jQuery was created to help cover some holes in basic JavaScript. It helped with cross-browser implementation and in general made things easier. As vanilla JavaScript has evolved, it has fixed many of these issues making jQuery unnecessary in many ways. It's more about using the right tool for the job and now, many times, jQuery is no longer that tool and it's just unnecessary bloat because vanilla can now serve as many of the same functions (ha, joke).

@davidjcastner may have an opinion on that if he's around.

Michael Perry

@keepsabbathholy_twitter

So I'm guessing this is a point of contention for many people?

Lily Romano

@Lilyheart

exactly. But it seems like to me that many programmers (of pretty much any flavor) like to find points of contention for fun or for ego or for whatever /shrug.