Keeping the family Updated

This is so strange, I am taking one class that is by the far the most difficult class I have taken yet, ironically the other class is so easy that all of you could pass it, yes you too dad, we're half way through the semester and this week I had to demonstrate the ability to download files from the internet. This class seems to me that it should be a required class for 5th graders prior to going to the sixth grade, I had to write a 1250 word paper explaining in detail how to download files from the internet, i asked the teacher if we could make a little golden book out of it.....this is a verbatim excerpt from that paper.

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Most of these sites still have their files on an ftp server they just have created web interfaces for the average user who could probably not figure out how to utilize ftp without a web or application based GUI. I will henceforth refer to this demographic group as the 'push the connect to AOL button users.'
There are many sites that offer software. If you are looking for a specific piece of software and know the manufacturer that software will probably be available on their website or at least link to a site that does contain it. More commonly used are the sites such as tucows.com, download.com, shareware.com, versiontracker.com. These sites contain software for most major operating systems and are usually categorized but the file names and descriptions of them are searchable, also these sites often offer rating systems based on the feedback of the users who have downloaded and used these application. This is an easy and simple format in which the push the connect button to connect to AOL users can figure out over time and use to gain access to the endless files out there. Personally I find it slow and painful, having to navigate through a half a dozen pages to get to what I want, usually on a server that is overworked in terms of bandwidth. I also dislike having to be subjected to the endless advertising of the masses with these web-based interfaces, but I have no control over what the net has become. I long for the days when ftp was accessed via command line interface and everyone online had thick glasses, no girlfriend, and was never available when star trek was on, but change is the only constant.


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We go from that simplicity to this monstrosity below from my other class, I got full credit for it and you can see the teachers notes on my excellent explanation of declaring methods (they're functions but he takes points off if I call functions functions so we have to call them methods or task, functions aren't functions anymore, just like country ain't country anymore, everyone's locking their doors) with multiple parameters. i was happy to see my grade but found it interesting that I didn't understand a word of what i wrote, the teacher is impressed and I'm clueless, making a very High A in the class.....go figure....theys gonna edumucate me..



Sean, thanks 50/50. I really liked how you explained the scope of where attributes should be defined in a Java class.

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"Sean DeHoney" wrote in message news:23250685@afm103.phoenix.edu...
Declaring a method with multiple parameters is done by creating a programmer defined method. Multiple variables should be defined within the field of a class if they are required in more than one method, otherwise they should be declared within the body of the local method. The multiple variables can be used locally within that method to return a single value or result to the main method or another method. Though they have multiple parameters a method is only capable of returning a single result or value, though that result can refer to an object that contains many variables.

Once the Method is left and result is sent, the values of the parameters within the local method are purged from memory and only the result is sent on. It seems to me that this is somewhat like creating an application within and application. I can see many potential uses for development of games using methods with multiple variables. The score of the game could be the result of method with multiple variables coming from multiple source. Values from outside sources could be sent to the local parameters of the method to compute the output which would be the score of the game.

This is another simple example but if I were to create a program to determine how many days a person has been alive based on their input, I could have multiple input fields, which are assigned to the multiple local parameters, and the mathematical calculation would be done locally within the method and it would pass the result to the main method or the method that had called the programmer created method.

Both of these examples. These examples don’t have a lot of value from a business perspective but they could add content and functionality to a website.

The Great Paradox

Raising children, what a great paradox? Perhaps the strangest of all of our human characteristics. Humans keep their young for about 18 years (more or less) no other creature on this planet spends so much time grooming their young to become independent as humans do. Most other creatures out there spend a very short time raising their young. There are bird species that abandon their young when they are born an leave them to fend for themselves. The Ridley Sea Turtles circle the globe through it’s great oceans and seas but the females come back every year to the gulf coast beach at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge to lay their eggs. They lay their eggs and head back to the sea, leaving their young to make it on their own, once they break out of their shells they are alone and head straight for the water to try and survive in this tough world.

So we work and work and work, we feel the immense responsibility of raising a child and we pour our love and knowledge and wisdom into them, we send them to school and teach them, groom, them, prepare them for life on their own, to live and act independently to be self sufficient. We sacrifice ourselves to shape and form this new human being just as we were so that they can go face the world on their own. Then they finally leave, they go out to blaze their own trail become their own person live their own life and when they leave a part of you goes with them. You have spent years raising that child and teaching them to become independent and not need us anymore and when they do leave you are proud, you are hopeful, you are sad and you are alone. You are alone and a piece of you is gone and will never be the same, suddenly you have only yourself to worry about and you once again have your own life, and some of us aren’t really sure what to do at that point, you spend 20 years raising a couple of children and now they are gone and it’s just you. We prepare them for the ultimate journey, but we break a big piece of our heart out and give it to them when they live. Now that I am alone what ever shall I do with my life?

BTW, if you are ever in New Millford, Illinois I would not recommend staying at the New Mill Motel. And if you must bring your own sheets.