Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Learn how to type

keybr.com is another service that helps you to learn how to type.

Surprising C errors

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Those errors might be surprising and a good exercise for C beginners: Empty printf Macros Single and Double quotes Thanks to drpaulcarter.com for this example: Pointers Loops No compiler error, but an infinite loop. Null terminator of Strings Again, you don’t get a compiler error, but some strange results: Further reading C Preprocessor and macros [...]

for loops in different programming languages

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If you have to learn a new programming language it is most of the time quite easy. You know the structures and the way you have to think if you want to solve a problem. The first time it might be hard, but the more languages you learn the more simmilarities you’ll recognize. I also [...]

Challenge Websites

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Challenge websites are websites which offer many tasks to solve and a ranking system. If you solve the challenges, you get points and your rank increases. You don’t get anything else. No money, no price. Only the knowledge and the ranking. Which is enough in my opinion. It might sound strange to others, but its [...]

Game: QWERTY Warriors 2

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Go to the Game: QWERTY Warriors 2 on Kongregate Task: Survive as long as possible. How to play: You have to type the enemy-words as fast as possible. Your figure will automatically shoot at them when you type. My Record: 118,486 (Final Score, see below)

Motion of the sun

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How is the sun moving, according to our latitude, the time of the day and the time of the year? Just take a look at astro.unl.edu and find it out!

Compare Planet Sizes

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The diameter of Mercury measures about 4880 km. Can you imagine how much that is? I could not. But with www.sciencenetlinks.com you can compare it with the earth: By the way, if you are interested in the universe, you should go to a planetarium. You can search the next one with maps.google.com. In Augsburg (Germany) [...]