Coding for Cookies

[Floris]

I love lynda.com !

 

[Tigratrus]

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ can be useful too, but sometimes a video tutorial can answer your questions faster

 

[Shamil]

I didn't have an incentive when I learnt to code.

 

[Floris]

I didn't have an incentive when I learnt to code.

*learned.

 

[Shamil]

*learned.

Ty, I might go to sleep now. Head is hurting; night all.

 

[Floris]

learnt is valid though, but not in American-english

I learned English
I have learnt English

learnt - attributive adjective
learned - predicative adjective

Unless I am mistaken, English isn't my first language :]

Yeah, bedtime for me too. Quite tired.

 

[GofD]

*learned.

learntpast participle, past tense of learn (Verb)


1. Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

 

[GofD]

Right- you beat me to it. In American English, we usually use learned, but learnt is not inappropriate. Cookt used to be a word, but it's archaic nowadays.

 

[Floris]

Funny you mention cookt
After we talked through this on irc, i googled for predicative adjective, and found the thread in google where they mentioned it, post #7 meantioned cookt too

 

[Nick]

Unless I am mistaken, English isn't my first language :]

I read this wrong the first time... as if you're not sure if English is your first language.

 

[Danny.VBT]

I read this wrong the first time... as if you're not sure if English is your first language.

Haha, me too. Though according to the comma, we read it right the first time.

 

[Floris]

I missed a word there

 

[mlx]

I really like the idea of coding for cookies. So that's the least I'm going to demand from my fellow moderator's if there's some custom code to do from now on

 

[GofD]

So, our boy came downstairs this morning (in true geek fashion - pants 4" too short [although front-side forward which is saying something] and at 11:30am) with a HUGE grin on his face.

He'd written his first batch file.

Sigh...my boy - he's such a geek. He's reading not one, but TWO giant tomes on Linux. Found him asleep face first in one the other night.

Now, to just get him interested in PHP...

 

[Tigratrus]

In true bi-partisan fashion though, he's reading my linux books, but he's doing video tutorials on Windows XP and batch files. He resurrected a 8 year old laptop running Windows XP and has been having a glorious time creating an imaginary anti-virus program on a usb thumb drive. As well as some amusing X-Com (awesome old-school TBS game) related trivia.

When I was downstairs getting laundry out, he called down and asked if, since he's learned so much about linux shells, file structure and editors, could he now please take over as our server admin?

 

[AnthonyCea]

My coding would be worth about as much as an old cookie !!