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    Help needed

    NES games were mostly written in 6502 assembler - same architecture as the Apple I, Apple II and the early Commodore machines
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    What language should I learn?

    this depends entirely on your school - some will teach a particular language and expect your project to be in that language, others are do whatever you want, there are a few that don't even do a project :S
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    What language should I learn?

    i wouldn't be too concerned if your teacher hasn't mentioned java or c++ one month into preliminary SDD... the syllabus obviously doesn't specify what languages have to be discussed, but either way it doesn't come up until later in the game. theoretically he should start teaching you some...
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    acceptance of offer?

    edit: beaten! darn! still priceless though
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    acceptance of offer?

    i did! but then i live here, so... there is really nothing in it you can't get from the website, except your uni id obviously
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    acceptance of offer?

    i wouldn't get too excited just yet, plenty of us here in canberra haven't got one either ;)
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    Anyone have a full list of university offers?

    yeah, some of the course names are wrong - my bachelor of philosophy comes up as a diploma of maritime and logistics management o_O the course codes are accurate - you can use something like http://www.uac.edu.au/undergraduate/documents/atar/atar10-cutoff-main.pdf to look them up and get the...
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    Anyone have a full list of university offers?

    more specifically, http://www.smh.com.au/dbj/MAIN-smh-final.csv
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    2009 HSC School Rankings

    Re: Top 100 Schools - Daily Telegraph we dropped 40 places :(
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    First Place in Course List

    i think my name badge made it on tv but my head didn't probably for the best really...
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    First Place in Course

    Re: hi its looks interesting!!!!!!!! what don't you like watches? see you all tomorrow, i just can't wait for the loooooooong drive to sydney
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    Algorithm Answers

    you didn't increment i in the while loop in maxKingdom ;) other than that it all looks good, exactly what i had for every question. only difference was i decided for the desk check that "a" should be > "b" rather than < "b" such that the algorithm sorted in ascending order. it's not really...
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    SDD: Multiple Choice

    these look spot on to me, exactly what i had
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    Error?

    while we're talking about errors, did anyone notice they spelt poor old clinton davisson's name wrong in quanta to quarks? poor guy!
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