I am going to dually boot Linux on this laptop. I already have windows and I’m keeping it. I am using a dvd from my programming professor for Mandriva. Hopefully when I make my next post, it will be from Linux.
Welcome to the family! Hope Mandriva works for you.
I got it to work after a few hours of partitioning the c: drive. It kept setting aside too few gigabytes. Unfortunately, I am on Windows right now for the internet. I couldn’t get the wireless to work on Mandriva. (Wireless is all I have available at my apartment. Cheap managers… ) I’ll be looking up more info on the main site.
Well… the main site for mandriva is absolutely no help. I just reconfigured some stuff and got it to work. I am on Linux right now. Yay! Now I need to write 7 programs before next Wednesday…
What language?
I’m learning to program in C. I have 2 out of 6 programs done now. 4 more left! It is only difficult because of the algorithms. I still need to organize the structure. Translating into C is the easy part.
What do the programs do? Hello World type stuff? Or more complex?
When I took Visual Basic, the hardest thing we had to learn was make an image blink using a timer. I hope you’re doing more complex stuff than that.
Here is a quick course outline
and the website for my class is below.
Expanded Course Description:
- Introduction: The computer, steps in solving a problem using a computer.
- Algorithms: General concept, development of efficient algorithms.
- Programming in C[LIST=1]
- Scalar data types, concept of data type, standard and user-defined scalar types.
- Simple Statements, arithmetic and boolean expressions, assignment statements, simple input and output statements.
- Flow of control, repetitive statements, conditional statements, unconditional branching
- Data structures: single and multidimensional arrays; character strings; structs.
- Functions: general concept; declaration and calls; & and * operators; parameters; introduction to recursion.
- Software engineering: running, debugging, testing programs, building quality programs.Expanded Course Description:
- Introduction: The computer, steps in solving a problem using a computer.
- Algorithms: General concept, development of efficient algorithms.
- Programming in C
- Scalar data types, concept of data type, standard and user-defined scalar types.
- Simple Statements, arithmetic and boolean expressions, assignment statements, simple input and output statements.
- Flow of control, repetitive statements, conditional statements, unconditional branching
- Data structures: single and multidimensional arrays; character strings; structs.
- Functions: general concept; declaration and calls; & and * operators; parameters; introduction to recursion.
- Software engineering: running, debugging, testing programs, building quality programs.[/LIST]This is the home page for my programming class.
ECS 30
I’m almost done with homework #1.
Cool deal.
If you like mandriva, later try PCLinux it is based off mandriva but is much easier to set up, and has more up-to-date packages for some things.
plus with 1 command, you can make a custom liveCD if you have everything under 2 gigs.
This is great for giving to friends, or just as a backup for a quick recovery. You can have blender and all your other favorite applications installed when you install you OS. Nice for setting up on your friends systems too 
Thanks for the info. I’ll be looking at my other choices when I’m done with this quarter. My next class will be using C++.
(I’ve always wanted a live usb stick. Then I could have all my programs that I use wherever I go. I’m jealous because one of the guys in my apartment has one.)
I just finished the last program in my homework! All I have left is this one question.
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