Crossroads
Guestbook 1999
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Jasveen Singh Klair
jsk1@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Slough, UK
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It's all good!!!!!!!!!
-Wednesday, October 13, 1999 at 06:52:39 (EDT)
Lavon D.T. Lane III
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Jackson, MS USA
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I love this ACM Website. I am also a member of ACM for my institution "Jackson State University". Being a member helps not only myself in Computer Science but helps the younger students get more knowledge of computer science and all the aspects & ideas to the new Computer Industry and the new Millinium. Keep it Going!!!!
-Sunday, October 10, 1999 at 12:19:16 (EDT)
redaer
USA
The C++ tutorial at:
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/ovp.html
is excellent. However, one or more paragraphs in it are missing; please search for the string "r = -10;" The paragraph(s) surrounding this string is not properly published.
Thank you for your great effort and I'll tell my friends about this site!
- A reader from Los Angeles
Editor's Note: Thank you for pointing this out..we have typed in the
missing paragraphs!
Charles
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-Saturday, October 02, 1999 at 21:05:07 (EDT)
jeff robbins
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syracuse, ny USA
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Just wanted to say hello to a fellow 'jeff robbins'. Congratulations on a great name.
-Monday, September 20, 1999 at 21:46:38 (EDT)
Erika Orrick
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Columbus, OH USA
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Hey, you guys are doing great! I miss working with you.
-Wednesday, September 08, 1999 at 11:13:18 (EDT)
Dick Seabrook
rhseabrook@mail.aacc.cc.md.us
USA
http://enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us/~rhs
Good magazine! There are some errors in the ChatHandler
code on p5 in the Fall edition, a misplaced right curly
brace and three out-of-date calls to Vector class
methods. You must have heard about this already, but if
not, let me know if you want the exact changes.
Dick S.
-Sunday, September 05, 1999 at 21:52:06 (EDT)
WALTER E. CRANOR
WECOR@aol.com
Crestwood, MO USA
Discovered Crossroads while doing a search on CRANOR
-Saturday, August 14, 1999 at 09:26:11 (EDT)
Robert Burrage
goak@airmail.net
TX USA
Your Java course page:
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-2/ovp42.html
Has "short" as being "8-bit integer".
Is it not 16 bit?
(See e.g.
http://scrc.dcrt.nih.gov/www/java/syntax/primitive_variables.htm )
Editor's Note: Robert is correct! A Java "short" is 16-bit. Thank
you for pointing out our mistake, we have corrected the page.
-Friday, August 06, 1999 at 17:14:52 (EDT)
Jeremy Ramos
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Tampa, FL USA
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-Tuesday, July 20, 1999 at 09:37:41 (EDT)
Romain Volland
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MIAMI, FL USA
If you can please indicate me a site which give me the informations that "the internet make people individualistic", that change people lifes, communications became computer oriented......... Thank you
-Tuesday, July 13, 1999 at 23:53:19 (EDT)
Carl Verderber
cc03je@ibm.net
NY USA
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It would be nice to see a document that helps distinguish the separation of declarations of pointers and classes from the declaration of new objects of a class and pointers to objects or classes that should be located in main or implementation files. It is sometimes confusing that I don't know what is an illegal declaration in a header, and what is a legal initialization in usage. Abstract? Exactly!
-Tuesday, July 13, 1999 at 13:21:26 (EDT)
Steven see
stvse
PENANG, MALAYSIA
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I HOPE I COULD RECEIVE ONLINE INFORMATION FROM YOURS REGULARY...
-Tuesday, June 29, 1999 at 06:15:50 (EDT)
VERNARD KELVIN WILLIAMS
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It was great to find such valuable information. I was searching and researhing the root meaning of the name "VERNARD" when I stumble across this web site. It is a great source of information.
-Wednesday, June 09, 1999 at 14:12:57 (EDT)
Maurizio PELICCI
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My name is Maurizio PELICCI, I have the same surname of Gabrielle. In the world, are litte Pelicci.
Is possible recive the e-mail address of Gabrielle?
Thank you. Maurizio
-Tuesday, May 11, 1999 at 17:25:07 (EDT)
Shana Cooper
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Miami, FL USA
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Good site ai would suggest a few more search engines and bigger, more attractive graphics.
-Monday, May 10, 1999 at 19:28:44 (EDT)
Sandra Joseph
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Mount Rainier, MD USA
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For the last two days, I have clicked on http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/posapp.html and gotten the following message:
Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been
instructed not to let you have it.
-Saturday, May 08, 1999 at 05:47:21 (EDT)
Betzi Pipis
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Monroe, MI USA
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-Tuesday, April 27, 1999 at 01:43:28 (EDT)
Jeannie Fitzgerald
Co Clare, Ireland
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Site was recommended by College Lecturer.
The presented material is interesting and relevant
to my course of study..
-Sunday, April 11, 1999 at 07:22:42 (EDT)
Christin Sharp
TX USA
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I thought it should give more info.
-Tuesday, April 06, 1999 at 17:29:33 (EDT)
David Miró
puntoweb@coqui.net
San Juan, PR USA(?)
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http://home.coqui.net/puntoweb/Demf4.htm
Great work, guys!
I'm at a particular period in my life where I'll need at least some free advice. You see, I'm 31. I graduated from the U. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez as a SW Engineer. At the time I graduated, the curriculum taught there had some, uh, quirks. I got by without formally learning C/C++ (Pascal was the language du jour there), even as I had to learn and do some heavy Unix development (our school then was pretty much a farm for AT&T, and the curriculum had a strong Unix/3BSomething/you'll be an ATT&T nerd guy flavor). I was recruited by Apple Computer in California, simply because of my enthusiasm for the Mac at the time. While at Apple (3 yrs.), I got to do everything BUT app development, which was what I intended to do. Most of the work I did was related to Industrial Engineering and EE troubleshooting, which I could do well, but not as well as programming. I did quite well at my job (was even featured in an article in Engineering Horizons magazine)
You all know what has become of Apple since. I was "redeployed" (along with half of the company), and came back to Puerto Rico to pursue a Masters in IE, with the specific intention of being a good SW engineer in a field of IE's, NOT to become one. The cross-pollination between the two fields is better left to YOUR own efforts, believe me: it is nothing you'll easily have access to while following a specific college path.
While I'm finishing my Masters, I've realized SW development is what I originally intended to do, and what I do best. In something that is pretty close to career sabotage, I paid too much attention to the Mac world while the rest of the world got hooked on Windows. Eventually, I did what I needed to do from the beginning: forget about learning specifics in college, and learn the skills and technologies I needed to learn ON MY OWN. The problem with this approach is that you can easily get confused with the fast pace, the gazillion acronyms, and the never-steady technologies. I've learned C++ on my own, and am specializing on MS app support (VB/VC++). It can be truly scary, given the Jello-like state of the industry, but I'm holding steady.
What I'd like to know is if there's ANYONE out there that can suggest me the logical path to follow. Learning C was easy, C++/Java a bit more challenging, but diving into the alphabet soup of DCOM/ADO/IIS/name-your-acronym can be quite intimidating. Just how much of it can I do on my own, and how much will I HAVE to learn in a controlled environment? What about cost? (if you're still in college, or if you're working and a company pays for the training, then it's OK, but what if you're locked up in a room with a computer, a cat, and a bunch of books, finishing your humongous project report? If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to hear them.
Feel free to email me at puntoweb@coqui.net David. :-)
-Monday, April 05, 1999 at 15:52:59 (EDT)
David Miró
puntoweb
USA
-Monday, April 05, 1999 at 15:35:11 (EDT)
M. Les Lessne
lessne@scis.nova.edu
Ft.Lauderdale, FL USA
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Would you like to collect resumes of I/T consultants?
-Thursday, April 01, 1999 at 14:10:12 (EST)
Kim Griffith
USA
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-Thursday, March 11, 1999 at 06:07:41 (EST)
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-Friday, March 05, 1999 at 13:48:35 (EST)
Andy Woodrow
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Tunbridge Wells, UK
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Very informative.
-Monday, March 01, 1999 at 05:14:30 (EST)
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Brisbane, Qld Australia
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Concise, informative, 'to the point!'....
-Sunday, February 28, 1999 at 07:36:24 (EST)
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Metairie, LA USA
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-Thursday, February 25, 1999 at 12:21:26 (EST)
Jeff Skrysak
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Washington, DC USA
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-Friday, February 19, 1999 at 21:54:42 (EST)
Claudio Spada
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Milan, ITALY
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Compliments! It's a very useful and informative publication.
Thank you for your work.
Ciao
-Friday, February 05, 1999 at 06:41:22 (EST)