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delomos: @Fayimora

Slowly drawing to a truism, expatiate on how Bayes would attack this... (or come to a conclusion with higher than average error bar)

Fayimora: Forget about certification and do your thing! Just my opinion! I know 2 Nigerians that brag about some crappy Java cert and yet they could not write a SIMPLE Library application, even after giving them a requirement spec! I was really disappointed and had to do that job myself! (I got an email and an offer but referred the employer to someone them). I believe your Seun would agree with me on this!

toluxa1: Seun please I have a question. I am currently learning Python and you were actually the one that inspired me to pick it up. Am not a beginner to programming though. I want to know if Python has a Certification they do like Microsoft, JAVA etc? If yes can one do it in Nigeria?

okeyxyz: the above suggests that the previous choice\door which turns out to be wrong is put back into the pool of choices\doors, the contents are shuffled, before allowing you to make another choice, so changing your mind\door or sticking with previous door does nothing to improve your chances of guessing the correct content(car). so, there's no logical way to better the odds here!

delomos: @codeaddict
How would you rationale this mathematically. Given that (in Story 1) , Pr(guess 1) = 1/3 ?

Seun: You'll create your own database and populate it with randomly generated data.
I'm thinking of developing a reference DB schema to make things easier for newbies.

Seun: Great programmers can learn new languages. Python is the easiest language to learn. Piece of cake for you.

Seun: I didn't get any of them. I don't know why .... where did you send the mails to?

SoftVersion: I always try that but I gat confused along the way, I hate asking questions on NL, most nlanders will take as stupidity and I‘m better than some of them anyway. This makes better and somehow learn slower.

Getting confused would be one of the reasons why she said "pick a project, and as you read, build on your knowledge and ideas of how to implement said project"..

The whole point is to get stuck! That's the way you learn, you get stuck => understand the problem => get ideas on how to fix the problem => eventually fix the problem => back to step 1 again. You definitely woud NEVER be good if you are scared of getting stuck. I have a crazy policy, if I am working on something that's way too easy(meaning I hardly encounter problems and when I do i fix them in seconds), I leave it alone and do something harder

I don't know how much interest you have in games but I learn't quite lot of the concepts I currently know from writing games! Games are always hard and in the process of implementing one, I learn a lot. The next challenge would then be to refactor the code.

Would give you an example.. In my first year, I wrote a checkers game, at that time, I was AWESOME!. However, it was completely procedural and messy. That I knew after learning OOP concepts. The next thing I did was to refactor the code so it's neat and a few components would be re-usable. Again, I felt awesome and after learning more OOP related stuff like Design Patterns and Generics, I felt silly and refactored the code again. Now feeling like a Don again, I learn't about Algorithms and Data Structures and then realised my computer player could be much more intelligent and faster. I improved it but after digging deeper into more Algorithms related to Game trees and so on, I was then able to write what I called my perfect checkers game with different difficulty levels. I might learn about something tomorrow and decide improve on it again! Think there is nothing more to add? Ok how about a game lobby, playing over the net with friends from different locations and stuff like that. I did that for a Tic-Tac-Toe game! Implementing such for a checkers game would .. well require a bit more than just what I already wrote. How about better graphics? Probably a 3D board?

That's is just one amongst the numerous projects I work on.

Get the logic now?

delomos:
^^ Can't be better said, maybe there should also be a yoruba version of this site >.<