Penny Arcade - Comic - Trouble At Home

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Trouble At Home

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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KagatoAC

Get that Real world experience started early. Now lets discuss Crunch Time.

jungleroomx

The response to "we had to let your little brother go" is amazing.

Preacher

I also like how he clearly just came into his room to wake him up.

Jakk Frost

Is it bad that, slight exaggeration aside, I view this as kind of good parenting? Gabe is teaching his kid what life will be like, instead of being a bulldozer parent who tells him life is grand and easy.

marsilies

Regarding the accompanying post and "anyone can code"....

I think when people say "anyone can code," it reminds me of the food critic Anton Ego's review in the movie Ratatouille:

In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

So, not everyone can become a great programmer, but a great programmer can come from anywhere.

rembrandtqeinstein

"fun way to learn coding"

famous last words

but really with true 4th gen language dev tools like Stencyl you really don't need to learn code except at the very highest level of abstraction

FireballDragon

marsilies wrote: »

Regarding the accompanying post and "anyone can code"....

I think when people say "anyone can code," it reminds me of the food critic Anton Ego's review in the movie Ratatouille:

In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

So, not everyone can become a great programmer, but a great programmer can come from anywhere.

This to a T.

Tofystedeth

marsilies wrote: »

Regarding the accompanying post and "anyone can code"....

I think when people say "anyone can code," it reminds me of the food critic Anton Ego's review in the movie Ratatouille:

In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

So, not everyone can become a great programmer, but a great programmer can come from anywhere.

And much like cooking, most anyone probably can learn to do it to an extent. Most people will probably not make the next killer app (or run a restaurant that critics rave about ), but they can probably learn to do useful tasks for their own purposes ( like being able to make a decent supper).

It ( and supporting skills like breaking down problems logically, etc) is probably as useful a skill to learn in school as finding the area under a curve.

Darkewolfe

Also much like cooking, I think everyone should learn the basics of it. In part because it makes your life easier, and in the case of coding because it'll make you understand what all of this technology around you really is, rather than mostly thinking it's magic.

Lucascraft

But... it is magic!

Tofystedeth

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

dennis

Tofystedeth wrote: »

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

You should look into it some time. It's actually pretty cool, and totally understandble (spoken as another professional programmer).

ironhead

Tofystedeth wrote: »

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

I know that feeling. I'm a web dev. First time I ever hung out with a network security guy I couldn't tell if he was telling me about a project he was working on or if he was trying to cast some sort of arcane incantation.

Tofystedeth

dennis wrote: »

Tofystedeth wrote: »

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

You should look into it some time. It's actually pretty cool, and totally understandble (spoken as another professional programmer).

I've kinda sorta looked at it, but signal stuff in general gets all wobbly in my head. Give me discrete math any day.

dennis

Tofystedeth wrote: »

dennis wrote: »

Tofystedeth wrote: »

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

You should look into it some time. It's actually pretty cool, and totally understandble (spoken as another professional programmer).

I've kinda sorta looked at it, but signal stuff in general gets all wobbly in my head. Give me discrete math any day.

Oooooh, you mean the SIGNAL part of analog TV, and not just the way the displays work. Gotcha. That's totally satanic.

tastydonuts

I remember wanting to write something that would move something IRL in response to input and it just seemed impossible to do.

But now I know you tell it to do it and it just happens, and if you tell it to do it really hard it will.

dennis

tastydonuts wrote: »

I remember wanting to write something that would move something IRL in response to input and it just seemed impossible to do.

But now I know you tell it to do it and it just happens, and if you tell it to do it really hard it will.

I'm going to keep repeating this in my head until the last brain cell dies.

cB557

Steel Angel

ironhead wrote: »

Tofystedeth wrote: »

As a professional programmer, I can definitely say it just shifts the bar for where the magic is. Like I can totally understand how digital displays work, but then I look at a analog color television and I'm like 'So these people were actual Goddamn wizards then?'

I know that feeling. I'm a web dev. First time I ever hung out with a network security guy I couldn't tell if he was telling me about a project he was working on or if he was trying to cast some sort of arcane incantation.

If Shadowrun has taught me anything it's that the two of those are not mutually exclusive by any means.