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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Programming skills (or lack thereof) in backstory
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Programming skills (or lack thereof) in backstory of Colorado shooter
http://j.mp/OXmMD9 (L.A. Times)
He said he set Holmes to work writing computer code for an experiment
Jacobson had done involving a game of rock-paper-scissors, in which
the computer always beats the human, no matter who goes first. The
experiment was in Flash, which Jacobson said is best encoded using
what's called object-oriented programming. Holmes insisted on using
what's known as procedural programming, much more time consuming and
complicated, Jacobson said. Holmes was, however, extremely receptive
to compliments, which was "how I got him to do the little that he
did," Jacobson said. For two weeks, Jacobson said, "he was absolutely
stubborn. I was at a loss to how to get him to program in an
object-oriented way. He just refused. Finally, I said, 'Do it any way
you can.'"
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