JFischer00

I appreciate all the great suggestions and ideas. I understand @M.Yurizaki's point about preferring iteration over recursion for multiple reasons, but I still believe it is a concept that should be covered in some depth in an introductory CS course. As long as tools' strengths and weaknesses are taught, more tools in your toolbox will generally result in better code (and problem solving thought processes since we're talking about CS in general, not just programming).

The unity engine is one of the best tools out there. (For both 3D and 2D games). Another good program for the style of game you are talking about is Gamemaker Studio. 

aero 14, XPS 15 or a Thinkpad, don't get a flashy "gaming laptop" those are unprofessional.  

One laptop you might want to take a look at is Lenovo's new Yoga 720 15". It has up to i7-7700HQ, a GTX 1050, up to 16GB RAM, up to 1TB SSD, and decent battery life.
 
http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/700-series/Yoga-720-15/p/88YG7000828

MobileTechReview put one up yesterday. Looks like 6-7 hours on iGPU and 1-2 less on 1050.

Yes, but you have to disable it for VirtualBox or VMWare to work properly (allow 64 bit guests). That's always the rule, even if you don't have a Ryzen CPU.

One word answer: 

Alright, thanks for the help guys! Turns out, that was causing it, I just disabled that feature (Hyper-V) and it now works fine!!! It is such a relief to know that Ryzen support Virtualization as some of the tools I used failed to launch. I just checked the specs page again and it says it support it. 

Thank you very much!

Just threw this together real quickly, so it may not be perfect, but it's a good start.
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/K4CzxY

You could argue pretty much any autocorrect/learning keyboard is a keylogger then. I think the whole hullabaloo surrounding the "privacy concerns" for Windows 10 are ridiculous. Your phones have "keyloggers", track your location, and use advertising across devices already as do desktop browsers. First everyone criticized them for being underhanded with the privacy settings which was valid. Now that they've come out and laid everything out and even made the dumb users aware of what they were tracking. 
 
Now it's a conspiracy and Microsoft is obviously lying, it never ends does it. Can't possibly say Microsoft did something good, nooo, Microsoft is evil and trying to track all of us, even though they do much less than modern day smartphones...I'm honestly so done with the ignorant Microsoft hate train, it screams of "I don't understand anything about data security and the fact that we carry around mobile gps', with all our personal and sensitive data, cameras, and microphones", oh but Autocorrect and advertising? Microsoft is literally Hitler
 
Edit: Now does this mean I'm ok with spying? Fuck no, but Microsoft is doing leagues less than what is being done on the smartphone side of things, even though they could well go full throttle spy mode yet they haven't 

If you look at the code, there are two lines that say "Reader.ReadLine" so it's not skipping a line, it's just only putting every other line into the listbox. It reads two lines every iteration. The first line gets put into the array and the listbox. The second line only gets put into the array.

You can write iOS apps without a mac (in C# with Xamarin is one way), but you won't be able to build them without a physical mac (or an "illegal" one if you know what I mean).

Private Sub frmMain_load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Dim File As IO.StreamReader Dim IDS As String Dim Alternator As Boolean If IO.File.Exists("Employees.txt") Then File = IO.File.OpenText("Employees.txt") Alternator = false Do Until File.Peek = -1 IDS = File.ReadLine If Alternator Then lstIds.Items.Add(IDS) End If Alternator = !Alternator Loop File.Close() End If End Sub First of all, I haven't used VB in a few years, so please excuse any syntax errors. I don't know how you plan to size the array before you know how many lines are in the file, but if I understand what you're looking for with the listbox (only add the salary lines to the listbox), then this code should do what you want.

Definitely...
There are pros and cons, and open development just happens to be one of the cons. On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be finally opening everything up, which is great for developers on all platforms.

Dude, get a job like every other teenager. Building low end PC's ain't going to get you anywhere.

The Pavilions are just like Dell's Inspiron, they vary from shitty low end laptops to somewhat decent gaming ones. It's definitely not a high end laptop, so don't expect great build quality. I've tried an older gaming Pavillion model and the screen flexed a lot when pressing on the back. 

yes, but* it has some "HP baggage"
 
- HP is NOT a good choice if you plan to primarily use it for gaming, HP is good at office critters, which in this case also have some extra "oomph" for those other things you do at home.
- when you're a sensible human being (like their main market: office folks) the laptops are very durable, but *please* dont throw them about, they're not made to be treated roughly. if you're nice to your laptop you can almost expect it to last 8 years, if you beat it up you're asking for trouble.

Looks like 50 fps~ at 900P high 
 

Many things done in Scrapyard Wars (and especially that one) should NOT be used everyday/for real life. It was used temporarily, for a "TV show." Austin Evans (and any other "techy" person who knows what they're talking about) would never recommend doing that for a computer that would actually be used. Bad PSUs can kill your computer and even start fires.

Many things done in Scrapyard Wars (and especially that one) should NOT be used everyday/for real life. It was used temporarily, for a "TV show." Austin Evans (and any other "techy" person who knows what they're talking about) would never recommend doing that for a computer that would actually be used. Bad PSUs can kill your computer and even start fires.

Many things done in Scrapyard Wars (and especially that one) should NOT be used everyday/for real life. It was used temporarily, for a "TV show." Austin Evans (and any other "techy" person who knows what they're talking about) would never recommend doing that for a computer that would actually be used. Bad PSUs can kill your computer and even start fires.

Many things done in Scrapyard Wars (and especially that one) should NOT be used everyday/for real life. It was used temporarily, for a "TV show." Austin Evans (and any other "techy" person who knows what they're talking about) would never recommend doing that for a computer that would actually be used. Bad PSUs can kill your computer and even start fires.

Many things done in Scrapyard Wars (and especially that one) should NOT be used everyday/for real life. It was used temporarily, for a "TV show." Austin Evans (and any other "techy" person who knows what they're talking about) would never recommend doing that for a computer that would actually be used. Bad PSUs can kill your computer and even start fires.

You should

Sorry, I forgot I posted this until now...
 
1. Windows 10 always notifies me to schedule a time to restart and has NEVER restarted my computer for me, so I don't know what that's about. Maybe you guys have it setup differently.
2. I don't care about data mining either. No companies are spying on you personally. All they really look at are the big picture numbers.
3. They don't take up much space. Some of them are actually useful and for those I don't care to use I just leave them alone and install my own program for that function if necessary (e.g. VLC instead of "Movies & TV" and "Groove Music"). It's just not that big a deal.
 
All in all, I have no real objections to Windows 10 and honestly, it is the future, like it or not. The good certainly outweighs the bad and it gets better with each update.