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2006-09-29T01:37:51Z

Cornflake: md's current avatar

md's current avatar

IRC channel

2006-05-19T07:15:48Z

Cornflake: /* New Network Information */

[[The]] #compsci.ca channel on IRC is where all the cool members are hanging out. Chances are, if you're not there, you're missing something exciting and important.

==New Network Information==
'''Server:''' irc.compsci.ca

'''Main Channel:''' #compsci.ca

'''Off Topic Channel:''' #compsci.ca-chat

This new network was formed by (in no particular order) Hacker_Dan, md, timmytheturtle, Hikaru79, TheFerret, and rdrake. You can join either the server above, or one of the following leaf servers (excluding irc.compsci.ca, which is a hub):
*irc.compsci.ca ([[Hacker_Dan]])
*nadia.irc.compsci.ca ([[md]]/[[cornflake]])
*melchior.irc.compsci.ca ([[timmytheturtle]])
*ferret.irc.compsci.ca ([[TheFerret]])
*darkmatter.irc.compsci.ca:16667 ([[rdrake]]/cartoon_shark)
Of course, the owners of the servers are also your friendly neighbourhood IRCops.

Joining a server near you *might* improve your latency; at least with those who are also near you. The server's are located as follows:
*irc.compsci.ca -> unknown
*nadia.irc.compsci.ca -> Ottawa
*melchior.irc.compsci.ca -> Kingston (?)
*ferret.irc.compsci.ca -> unknown
*darkmatter.irc.compsci.ca -> unknown

==Old Information==

'''Server:''' irc.afternet.org

'''Main Channel:''' #compsci.ca

'''Off Topic Channel:''' #compsci.ca-chat

'''Self-taught Programming Channel:''' #cs-self-taught

To join the channel, you need an [[IRC Client]]. We recommend [[X-Chat]]. Join the AfterNET server, then join any of the above channels.

==History==
===Of The Main Channel===

Much of #compsci.ca's early history is shrouded in mystery. Nobody is quite sure the exact time when it was created, but rumour has it that [[Coutsos]] was its founder, although he did not begin to regularly attend it until quite some time later. Its first regular inhabitants were [[wtd]] and a mysterious lurker named [[Ultrahex]], who though a member of compsci does not seem to ever post on the forums. Things took off sometime in early 2005, when a wave of members, including [[Hikaru79]], [[Coutsos]], [[Cervantes]], and [[Gandalf]] started regularly attending the channel. At present, #compsci.ca has a regular population of about ten, give or take, although it is subject to occasional flurries of activity, often when the moon is full.

As of April 15th, 2006, #compsci.ca is for [[CompSci.ca]] and programming related discussion. Excessive off topic discussion is to be held in #compsci.ca-chat.

===Of The Self-taught Programming Channel===
This channel was thought of on the [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=10613 forums] by [[wtd]] on December 14, 2005. The main interest of this new channel is [[Ruby]] and [[O'Caml]]. This channel is not for the people who are taught programming in high school but for the people who self-teach it. When [[wtd]] announced it, there was a great cheer for [[wtd]] since he created the channel for the rest of the users to use and ask questions about.

===Of The Compsci.ca Chat Channel===
Founded in April 15th, 2006 during the [[Great IRC Crackdown]] of 2006, it was designed to reduce much of the spam going on in the #compsci.ca main room.

This new channel is a place for more relaxed chat, the old is for more [[CompSci.ca]] related discussion and computer science in general. Programming, operating systems, etc., it's all welcome in #compsci.ca. If you are going to spam, please join #compsci.ca-chat. If you spam too much, you will be devoiced and/or kicked.

==Daily Life==

Much of #compsci.ca's time is spent in utter silence (while its members spend time in deep personal reflection and thought), broken periodically by outbursts of conversation, instruction, and weirdness. Hilarity often ensues. Confusion can become rampant when [[the]] mature members take to stealing each other's nicknames (see [[Coutsos Identity Crisis]]). On a good day, [[wtd]] can be observed teaching some interesting, mind-blowing new programming concept.

Ocasionally if you are really lucky you'll witness something as bizzare as [http://www.compsci.ca/wiki/index.php?title=IRC_2006_01_17 this wonderful event].

== IRC Names to CompSci.ca User Names ==
*'''[[wtd]]''' - wtd, Lotho
*'''[[Cornflake]]''' - God, md, or cornflake
*'''[[Coutsos]]''' - Coutsos
*'''[[Cervantes]]''' - Cervantes, [[Minsc]], and 100's of other variations that come up
*'''[[Gandalf]]''' - Gandalf, [Gandalf]
*'''[[Hikaru79]]''' - Hikaru79
*'''[[Hacker Dan]]''' - Hacker_Dan, Dan
*'''[[timmytheturtle]]''' - timmy, timmytheturtle, timmythetortoise
*'''[[Amailer]]''' - Amailer
*'''[[TheFerret]]''' - TheFerret
*'''[[Martin]]''' - mdkess
*'''[[cartoon_shark]]''' - rdrake
*'''[[rizzix]]''' - rizzix
*Compwiz333 - '''[[A-Pomb]]'''
*Bored - Bored, Confused

 *Note: May vary greatly when [[name-switching game]] is in progress.

==The Future==

The future for #compsci.ca is looking bright, as it receives more and more attention in the compsci.ca community, particularly through the siggies and evangelism of [[Cervantes]], [[Coutsos]], and [[Hikaru79]]. With any luck, it will soon be as integral a part of the compsci.ca experience as the forum has come to be.

[[Hacker Dan]] has integrated a Java-based IRC client that will send users to the channel directly from the forums. The feature is currently included in the alpha version of [[V3]].

Coutsos Identity Crisis

2006-05-01T21:23:02Z

Cornflake: /* Theories */

It is a little known fact, but Coutsos claims that he has a twin. Of course, that's just wacky. It is much more plausible that Coutsos actually has Schizophrenia. There is plenty of evidence for this, but this article will focus on one in particular.

== December 12, 2005 ==
On the aforementioned date, Coutsos and several other [[CompSci.ca]] members were chatting in [[the]] [[IRC channel]], as usual. Coutsos went silent for a bit, and when he came back he sounded different. He sounded gruffer. The new Coutsos claimed that he was in fact the twin of the old Coutsos. What's more, he claimed that he punched the old Coutsos in the face and that there was blood all over the keybaord.

But Coutsos had more tricks up his sleeves. Shortly after the "new" Coutsos showed up, another Coutsos entered the channel. The two versions of Coutsos had some arguments regarding which video card was a better buy. [[Cervantes]] noticed that Coutsos was in distress: he was obviously having his most severe identity crisis yet. [[Cervantes]] changed his nickname to ''"Coutsos3"'', and others followed suit. [[The]] better part of the channel became Coutsos, in an attempt to ease the pain of the one true Coutsos.

The channel looked something like this:
<ul>
<li>[[Hacker Dan|Hacker_Dan]]</li>
<li>[[Ultrahex]]</li>
<li>[[X3]]</li>
<li>[[boo-chan]]</li>
<li>Coutsos1</li>
<li>Coutsos2</li>
<li>Coutsos3</li>
<li>Coutsos4</li>
<li>Coutsos5</li>
<li>Coutsos6</li>
<li>[[wtd|Lotho]]</li>
</ul>
It should be noted that the reason there were not more versions of [[Coutsos]] is merely because [[boo-chan]], [[Hacker Dan]], and [[wtd|Lotho]] were away at the time.

==Theories==
So far, there are only a few theories that attempt to explain this phenomenon. The best known is the [[Array_Theory_of_The_Coutsos_Identity_Crisis|Array Theory of The Coutsos Identity Crisis]].

Cornflake

2006-04-17T03:34:56Z

Cornflake: /* Who is Cornflake? */ no more CS!

== Who is Cornflake? ==
[[Image:cornflake_avatar1.gif|thumb|right|Cornflake's current avatar]]
Cornflake joined the forums in 2004 after hearing about [[CompSci.ca]] from it's two of it's key members [[Tony]] and [[Martin]]. He is a decent [[C]]/[[CPP|C++]]/[[Pascal]] programmer, but knows many other languages well enough to be able to help out. Cornflake is usually fairly good when it comes to helping people who ask nicely, but has been known to be a complete ass to people who do or say dumb things. Usually these people fall under the title of [[noob]] and are equally despised by all.

Cornflake is a student at the [[University of Waterloo]], and can usually be found lurking in the [[IRC channel]]. He is also the only member of compsci to have seen the illusive giant 42.[[Image:42.png|thumb|[[42]]]]

== Quotes ==
''Got up one morning at camp hungery. Very hungry. So I ate three boxes (yes boxes) of cornflakes.''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=9560#91307]

== Past Avatars ==
[[Image:cornflake_avatar2.png|thumb|left|The Original]]
[[Image:cornflake_avatar1.gif|thumb|left|New and Improved]]
[[Image:cornflake_avatar3.png|thumb|left|Duck Style]]

IRC channel

2006-04-15T03:45:44Z

Cornflake: /* Of The Main Channel */ fixed ultrahex's status and chanel population

[[The]] #compsci.ca channel on IRC is where all the cool members are hanging out. Chances are, if you're not there, you're missing something exciting and important.

==Information==

'''Server:''' irc.afternet.org

'''Main Channel:''' #compsci.ca

'''Self-taught Programming Channel:''' #cs-self-taught

To join the channel, you need an [[IRC Client]]. We recommend [[X-Chat]]. Join the AfterNET server, then join #compsci.ca and/or #cs-self-taught.

==History==
===Of The Main Channel===

Much of #compsci.ca's early history is shrouded in mystery. Nobody is quite sure the exact time when it was created, but rumour has it that [[Coutsos]] was its founder, although he did not begin to regularly attend it until quite some time later. Its first regular inhabitants were [[wtd]] and a mysterious lurker named [[Ultrahex]], who though a member of compsci does not seem to ever post on the forums. Things took off sometime in early 2005, when a wave of members, including [[Hikaru79]], [[Coutsos]], [[Cervantes]], and [[Gandalf]] started regularly attending the channel. At present, #compsci.ca has a regular population of about ten, give or take, although it is subject to occasional flurries of activity, often when the moon is full.

===Of The Self-taught Programming Channel===
This channel was thought of on the [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=10613 forums] by [[wtd]] on December 14, 2005. The main interest of this new channel is [[Ruby]] and [[O'Caml]]. This channel is not for the people who are taught programming in high school but for the people who self-teach it. When [[wtd]] announced it, there was a great cheer for [[wtd]] since he created the channel for the rest of the users to use and ask questions about.

==Daily Life==

Much of #compsci.ca's time is spent in utter silence (while its members spend time in deep personal reflection and thought), broken periodically by outbursts of conversation, instruction, and weirdness. Hilarity often ensues. Confusion can become rampant when [[the]] mature members take to stealing each other's nicknames (see [[Coutsos Identity Crisis]]). On a good day, [[wtd]] can be observed teaching some interesting, mind-blowing new programming concept.

Ocasionally if you are really lucky you'll witness something as bizzare as [http://www.compsci.ca/wiki/index.php?title=IRC_2006_01_17 this wonderful event].

== IRC Names to CompSci.ca User Names ==
*'''[[wtd]]''' - wtd, Lotho
*'''[[Cornflake]]''' - God, md, or cornflake
*'''[[Coutsos]]''' - Coutsos
*'''[[Cervantes]]''' - Cervantes, [[Minsc]], and 100's of other variations that come up
*'''[[Gandalf]]''' - Gandalf, [Gandalf]
*'''[[Hikaru79]]''' - Hikaru79
*'''[[Hacker Dan]]''' - Hacker_Dan, Dan
*'''[[timmytheturtle]]''' - timmy, timmytheturtle, timmythetortoise
*'''[[Amailer]]''' - Amailer
*'''[[TheFerret]]''' - TheFerret
*'''[[Martin]]''' - mdkess
*'''[[cartoon_shark]]''' - rdrake
*'''[[rizzix]]''' - rizzix
*Compwiz333 - '''[[A-Pomb]]'''
*Bored - Bored, Confused

 *Note: May vary greatly when [[name-switching game]] is in progress.

==The Future==

The future for #compsci.ca is looking bright, as it receives more and more attention in the compsci.ca community, particularly through the siggies and evangelism of [[Cervantes]], [[Coutsos]], and [[Hikaru79]]. With any luck, it will soon be as integral a part of the compsci.ca experience as the forum has come to be.

[[Hacker Dan]] has integrated a Java-based IRC client that will send users to the channel directly from the forums. The feature is currently included in the alpha version of [[V3]].

Cornflake

2006-03-10T05:58:42Z

Cornflake: fixed current avatar

== Who is Cornflake? ==
[[Image:cornflake_avatar1.gif|thumb|right|Cornflake's current avatar]]
Cornflake joined the forums in 2004 after hearing about [[CompSci.ca]] from it's two of it's key members [[Tony]] and [[Martin]]. He is a decent [[C]]/[[CPP|C++]]/[[Pascal]] programmer, but knows many other languages well enough to be able to help out. Cornflake is usually fairly good when it comes to helping people who ask nicely, but has been known to be a complete ass to people who do or say dumb things. Usually these people fall under the title of [[noob]] and are equally despised by all.

Cornflake is a second year CS student at the [[University of Waterloo]], and can usually be found lurking in the [[IRC channel]]. He is also the only member of compsci to have seen the illusive giant 42.[[Image:42.png|thumb|[[42]]]]

== Quotes ==
''Got up one morning at camp hungery. Very hungry. So I ate three boxes (yes boxes) of cornflakes.''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=9560#91307]

== Past Avatars ==
[[Image:cornflake_avatar2.png|thumb|left|The Original]]
[[Image:cornflake_avatar1.gif|thumb|left|New and Improved]]
[[Image:cornflake_avatar3.png|thumb|left|Duck Style]]

Talk:Iker

2006-03-07T07:11:53Z

Cornflake: Don't delete stuff either. (reverted)

If you do not like homosexuals and whont to be predusits that is up to you but it has no place on CompSci.ca or any of it's subsites. Please leave such remarks off of the wiki.
:--Hacker Dan 17:48, 13 February 2006 (PST)

:Iker has seen Brokeback Mountain ... twice.
:--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 19:41, 15 February 2006 (PST)

V3

2006-02-14T04:02:43Z

Cornflake: /* Requested */

This page was intentionally left blank, but was added to anyway.

==V3 ETA==
'''Alpha Version''': Before Summer, Feb. 30th (estimate only)

'''Beta Version''': Before next school year, April 30th (estimate only)

'''Public Version''': Unknown

==User Requests==
Add modifications and other things that you would like to see in V3:

===Added===
*[[Amailer]]: Merge posts commands for mods
*[[Amailer]]: Tutorial rating system
*[[Cervantes]]: Quick Reply box
*[[Martin]]: Add an RSS feed option for various forums. (Can you say awesome?) Yes '''''ADDED''''' but buggy
*[[Martin]]: Timed bans. Like, so I can ban someone for three days and when they login it'd say You have been banned (by [[Martin]]) for whatever reason. There is <x> much time remaining. Then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty.
*[[Martin]]: Get rid of the stupid 'You have a message!' sound that plays and makes the page layout go nuts. '''''ADDED in v2 as well'''''
*[[Rizzix]]: Allow for moderator feedback: aka tutorial rejection. This will help improve the quality of tutorials available on compsci.
*[[Amailer]]: (Maybe) create a system similar to [http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Main_Page Gallery2] '''''A image system like it has be added but not that.'''''

===In Development===
*[[Hacker Dan]]: Automated security systems
*[[Martin]]: Fix firefox glow '''''May not be possible'''''
:Then can we just get rid of it, or at least disable the colours for the name that are impossible/difficult to see on real web browsers (such as white)?
:--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 22:47, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Tony]]: wiki like bbcode linking
*[[Cervantes]]: Link to Bit Log in profiles (only visible to that user, such as Attachment Control Panel, or mods)
*[[Cornflake]]: Tutorial link to wiki [[Tutorials]] page
*[[Gandalf]]: Time of last log in, on the profile page.
*[[Hikaru79]]: Not having edits, count towards your post/minute timer (so you can edit posts right after you made them if you noticed a problem).
*[[Martin]]: Registration that registers you both on the wiki and compsci.ca with the same account.
*[[rizzix]]: List users by rank, where the rank is the bits/posts ratio.
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user projects: Homepage, CVS, Bugtracker, Development timeline graphs, etc. '''''Partly Added, the CVS part, partly'''''
:Subversion, not CVS... please.
:--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 22:47, 5 February 2006 (PST)
::Acuatly it is subversion not CVS that i added, my bad =p
::--[[User:65.39.11.90|65.39.11.90]] 11:08, 7 February 2006 (PST)

===Considering===
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=282881 Google Integrated Search] so that it will take alot less time to search and you'll be able to get better results.
:: I like it in theory but it could cause the bot problems we had b4 to come back. [[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Cervantes]]: Commenting for changing bits
:: A bits log for sure but i don't know about making a comeeting section for every bits chage, i think that is more for what PMing is for. [[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user project bounties.
*[[rizzix]]: Improved award system. Make the awards a little more visible, i.e. not hidden deep within the user's profile.
:It would be cool if at the top right of your post (to the left of the edit button) there was a list of clickable 16x16 icons representing the awards. Each award could have a description attached to it, like - 'awarded to so and so for winning this contest on this day.' Probably kind of time consuming to add though.
:[[User:Martin|Martin]] 00:31, 1 February 2006 (PST)
::Cool maybe but it whould make the posts to corwed with infromation and start looking bad, esptaly if some users had many awards
::--[[User:Hacker Dan|24.109.165.77]] 10:19, 4 February 2006 (PST)
:::In that case, it could be the most recent five awards or whaever.
:::--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 02:50, 5 February 2006 (PST)
::::In the profile maybe, but right on the persons posts seems a bit much. Tho i could posbliy make a system for the user to put them in there sig. [[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)
:::::Instead, maybe just a single trophy button with a number beside it showing the number of trophies that the user has. Like: ''Y(3)'' (with the Y being a picture of a trophy or something)
:::::--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 16:49, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[rizzix]]: In-place post editing. That is, display the whole page as it would normally show up when viewing posts, but make the post marked for editing, editable. ( hint: AJAX )
::AJAX is gr8 and all but can some times overly complicate things. [[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 14:38, 5 February 2006 (PST)
::: It makes things simpler on the user end. (c'mon stop complaining :p) Of course, no rush here, you can safely move it to V4 :)
::: --[[rizzix]] 19:14, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[rizzix]]: A WYSIWYG editor, for those who don't like using bbcode or wiki
*[[rizzix]]: Improved tutorial writing system: provides the ability to work on tutorials in offline mode, (a publishing system). The ability take a tutorial offline, edit it, improve it, and re-publish it. Force all tutorials to be approved by ''any'' moderator before it is displayed online. '''''Not going to happen unless some one whonts to write the offline software and backend script to handel post uploads'''''
::That is not what I meant. By offline I mean you take it off display, and put it into a Tutorial box or something. It is basically a publishing system. Do reconsider.
::--[[rizzix]] 11:39, 5 February 2006 (PST)
:::I am considering it, tho it may make things more complicated. --[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 14:32, 5 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Gandalf]]: An easy way of quoting multiple people so that it shows their name above the quote (ie. one solution would be the quote button, except make it show in the "Topic Review" below the "Post a Reply" box).

===Rejected===
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=289721 Democracy MOD 0.1.4 (reputation + warnings + reports)] '''''Difrent mod being used for same thing'''''
*[[Martin]]: Hookers. '''''Added....i mean WTF???'''''
*[[rizzix]]: Allow for wiki sytle editing, as an alternative to bbcode. '''''I don't know about that one....'''''
*[[rizzix]]: Give the tutorial's author bits/month for ''x'' number of years, based on the rating his tutorial has received (since we already have the rating system implemented). This will help improve the number of quality articles we have here on compsci, and will truly reflect the rank of the user.
::I am planing on having a bits for rating system but it will be based on some difrent math
::[[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Amailer]]: Since you guys are removing the edit button because you don't know what the origional content was, how about making a system, similar to wikies which has the edit history? No need for it to be able to un-do it all, but yeah, you would be able to check what has been edited. (you can just put the diffrent versions insted of the + and - thigns)
::We are not removing the edit buttion
::[[Hacker Dan]]--[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Martin]]: A way for normal users to flag a topic that is spam/abusive/whatever. Just a flag this topic button, and then the administrators could get a list of all flagged topics. Administrators could then deal with the topic and remove the flag afterwards. Also, hookers.
::All ready added......other then the hookers....
::[[Hacker Dan]] --Hacker Dan 08:41, 11 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Iker]]: We need more cowbell
::We need more what now? [http://www.fridayfishwrap.com/wp/wp-content/images/cowbell.jpg Cowbell?]
::[[Hacker Dan]] --[[User:24.109.165.77|24.109.165.77]] 18:12, 8 February 2006 (PST)

===Requested===

*[[Martin]]: When editing posts, default to silent edit when it's someone else's post, but to a normal (tagged) edit when editing your own posts.
*[[Iker]]: An "auto lock" on all topics older then x days. This way, we don't have to worry about new people not reading the rules, and none of us have to bitch at them for doing it :)
::You know, um I thought the reason why forums keept the old posts was because people can come back to them; why do we flame people when they post in old topics? Unless the topic has already been solved (or disucssion was over). Suppose it was a help topic, and a person just signed up and knew the answer (the topic didn't get a proper answer when it was made)- so isn't the user allowed to post in it?
::--[[User:Amailer|Amailer]] 14:21, 11 February 2006 (PST)
*[[Cervantes]]: Change the character limit in signatures. From what I can tell, it's currently a limit before BBCode tags are applied. Having lots of colour and links may make a single sentance too long. Also, no images in sigs.
*[[Martin]]: Buddy list to make finding people easier when you want to PM them.
*[[Martin]]: Probably the best idea ever - switch the post boxes to use a fixed width font. Writing code in them as it stands is very difficult.
*[[Cornflake]]: Fix the post boxes to fill the entire screen width wise. It's not that hard, and it makes things so much nicer.

==Things left to do for V3==
Not usefull to any one but Hacker Dan, but just easy to keep track of this way for him:

*<strike>Edit private message welcome</strike>
*<strike>Errors on forum (posting)</strike>
*<strike>remove aditional info on fourm names (moderator info)</strike>
*<strike>posbly remove style drop down</strike>
*reoreder nav links
*<strike>remove "switch to invisible"</strike>
*<strike>remove download modual</strike>
*add shop for item pool
*<strike>chage name of knowledge base link</strike>
*<strike>chage pic of knowledge base</strike> '''''Thanks to amailer'''''
*<strike>fix knowledge base approval system</strike>
*<strike>remove lexicon</strike>
*make portal pages
*<strike>add in wiki and blog nav links</strike>
*<strike>try to fix time zones</strike>
*fix order of smiles
*<strike>check spell checker</strike> Fix spell checker
*add user controal panale links
*<strike>edit user aggremnt</strike> Make new rules page
*<strike>chage post icon setings</strike>
*<strike>fix flash bbcode and others</strike> fix or remove flash bbcode
*<strike>set up anwsered/unawsered system</strike>
*<strike>edit footer</strike> <strike>check out backend.php</strike>
*edit faq
*<strike>add event types</strike>
*<strike>fix link to use modual</strike>
*<strike>fix contact us deparments</strike>
*reorder moduals
*add knowledge base rankings
*deal with user requests
*<strike>chage KB tag</strike>
*<strike>fix IE errors/warnings</strike>
*make footer look nicer
*<strike>add wiki bbcode</strike>
*<strike>fix pm notifaction</strike>
*add in compsci.ca bits mod
*add in compsci.ca bits log mod
*add in compsci.ca shop effect sell mod
*get some sleep
*work on KB combaity by making notice go to old tutoral forms
*<strike>Play with RSS Feed</strike> Add info to tell users how to use RSS
*Test timed bans
*<strike>fix up pm message</strike>
*KB noftication on rejection and reason
*Test image system
*<strike>Look in to and add secuirty systems</strike>
*disable glow for non-IE
*bits log link in profile (only visable to staff + user)
*time last login in profile
*Link to wiki tutoral page
*look in to edits spam timer
*<strike>dual registeration</strike>
*add registeration feilds
*more user listing options in member list
*play with subversion ideas
*look in to google integrated search
*look in to user project bounties system
*look in to increasing visiblity of user awards
*<strike>look in to phpbb AJAX (http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=348995)</strike> '''''Pushed to V4'''''
*better error pages
*find copy right for compsci.ca
*make it so only user can make wiki edits
*add mods
*look in to blog software and intergation with phpbb
*edit help page for irc
*make watermark for irc

==Alpha Verson==
===Alpha Testers===
Aplha users are limited to staff only. If you are staff list your name below to sign up for the v3 alpha test.

*[[Hacker Dan]]
*[[rizzix]]
*[[Tony]]
*[[Martin]]!
*[[Cervantes]]
*[[Amailer]]

===Bug Report===
Please list your name, the browser you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you were doing and the bug below:

===Comments and Suggestions===

==Beta Version==
===Beta Testers===
Any users in good standing may sign up for the beta test. The beta test will begin after all the bugs and chages recommended in the alpha test are made/done. Not all users signed up will get to be a beta tester and order of signing up may or may not matter.

*[[Hacker Dan]]
*[[Cornflake]]
*[[El Comandante]]
*rdrake/cartoon_shark
*[[Pwned]]
*[[Martin]]!
*[[Cervantes]]
*[[Gandalf]]
*[[rizzix]]
*[[Hikaru79]]
*[[Iker]]

===Bug Report===
Please list your name, the brower you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you were doing and the bug below:

==V3 Preview==
The following is rumored to be a pic of [[the]] V3 system:
[[Image:compsci_v3.jpg|thumb|500px|left|V3?]]

Martin

2006-02-14T03:59:45Z

Cornflake: /* About Martin */ Linked to Japan

[[Image:Photo_35_small.jpg|thumb|right|Martin's avatar]]
[[Image:martin.jpg|thumb|right|Martin's old avatar]]

== About Martin ==
Martin is one of [[the]] original members of [[CompSci.ca]] - user #4 to be precise, preceeded by a test account, [[Tony]] and [[Hacker Dan]]. His birthday is January 15th, 1986, which makes him 20 years old and quickly catching up to [[the]] venerable [[wtd]]. He joined [[CompSci.ca]] on August 18th, 2002.

Currently he is a student at [[the]] [[University of Waterloo]], on a coop term in [[Japan]] (and has some [http://www.flickr.com/photos/71514888@N00/ pictures] to share) working for Epson as a [[code monkey]]. An ex-[[computer science]] student, he now studies [[applied mathematics]] and is also pursuing a minor in economics. He will be back in Waterloo for his 2A term in [[the]] Fall of 2006.

When Martin was in grade 10, he met [[Tony]] online while bitching about his marks on another Turing help website.

He occasionaly goes by [[the]] alias 'Drealoth' while online - a homage to one of his old Dungeons & Dragons characters.

On [[the]] [[IRC channel]] he goes by [[the]] name mdkess.

== Co-operative Education ==
Martin is a Waterloo co-op student, and has held two co-op jobs.

*January 2005 - April 2005. Department of National Defense, Kingston, Ontario. For his first co-op job, Martin worked for the Department of National Defense assisting in the development of their military simulation software.

*September 2005 - August 2006. Epson Avasys, Matsumoto, Japan. Martin got a job in Japan. He's not entirely sure how that happened, but now he lives in the Land of the Rising Sun developing Java applications using JavaServer Faces.

== Toys ==
Martin's current computer is an iMac G5 dual booting OSX and Debian Linux. He likes OSX, but thinks that it needs virtual terminals and Apple really has to [http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=FTFF&Find=Find FTFF].

His computer is a 1.9GHz G5 with 1.5GB of DDR2 ram and a 128mb Radeon 9600 pro.

Martin's other big toy is a [http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%253D58900%2526CTID%253D,00.html Yamaha P140 Digital Piano] that he bought in [[Japan]]. Through use of a MIDI cable, this allows Apple's software Garage Band to slowly suck his life away.

== Politics ==
Martin votes [http://www.greenparty.ca/ Green] and thinks that you should too.

== Current Projects ==
At the moment, Martin is developing a [[MUD]] called [http://antithesis.nxor.org/ The Antithesis]. It is in the very early stages of development.

== Other interests ==
[[Image:Stella.jpg|thumb|right|Stella Artois]]
Martin is a huge indie rock fan, especially Canadian indie rock. His favourite bands include The Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, The Stars, Death from Above 1979 and Broken Social Scene. His favourite beer is Stella Artois.

Martin is also a large fan of the many Japanese girls that he meets in his travels. He likes dancing and theoretical physics.

He strongly dislikes organized religion as well as fundamentalists of any faith.

== Quotes ==
''"JavaServer Faces + Japanese Error messages + Japanese Specification makes for one very confused Canadian code monkey."''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=101407&highlight=#101407]

''"Maybe God created the earth mid-stride 100 years ago. I mean, who would want to sit around and wait for billions of years for something interesting to happen? Here, God gets an exciting 50 years complete with an economic collapse and two world wars."''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=99835&highlight=#99835]

IRC channel

2006-02-08T19:57:40Z

Cornflake: /* IRC Names to CompSci.ca User Names */ fixed my name list

[[The]] #compsci.ca channel on IRC is where all the cool members are hanging out. Chances are, if you're not there, you're missing something exciting and important.

==Information==

'''Server:''' irc.afternet.org

'''Main Channel:''' #compsci.ca

'''Self-taught Programming Channel:''' #cs-self-taught

==History==
===Of The Main Channel===

Much of #compsci.ca's early history is shrouded in mystery. Nobody is quite sure the exact time when it was created, but rumour has it that [[Coutsos]] was its founder, although he did not begin to regularly attend it until quite some time later. Its first regular inhabitants were [[wtd]] and a mysterious lurker named [[Ultrahex]], who doesn't seem to be a bona fide member of the CompSci.ca community, although he's always in the channel.
Things took off sometime in early 2005, when a wave of members, including [[Hikaru79]], [[Coutsos]], [[Cervantes]], and [[Gandalf]] started regularly attending the channel. At present, #compsci.ca has a regular population of about seven, give or take, although it is subject to occasional flurries of activity, often when the moon is full.

===Of The Self-taught Programming Channel===
This channel was thought of on the [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=10613 forums] by [[wtd]] on December 14, 2005. The main interest of this new channel is [[Ruby]] and [[O'Caml]]. This channel is not for the people who are taught programming in high school but for the people who self-teach it. When [[wtd]] announced it, there was a great cheer for [[wtd]] since he created the channel for the rest of the users to use and ask questions about.

==Daily Life==

Much of #compsci.ca's time is spent in utter silence (while its members spend time in deep personal reflection and thought), broken periodically by outbursts of conversation, instruction, and weirdness. Hilarity often ensues. Confusion can become rampant when [[the]] mature members take to stealing each other's nicknames (see [[Coutsos Identity Crisis]]). On a good day, [[wtd]] can be observed teaching some interesting, mind-blowing new programming concept.

Ocasionally if you are really lucky you'll witness something as bizzare as [http://www.compsci.ca/wiki/index.php?title=IRC_2006_01_17 this wonderful event].

== IRC Names to CompSci.ca User Names ==
*'''[[wtd]]''' - wtd, Lotho
*'''[[Cornflake]]''' - God, md, or cornflake
*'''[[Coutsos]]''' - Coutsos
*'''[[Cervantes]]''' - Cervantes, [[Minsc]], and 100's of other variations that come up
*'''[[Gandalf]]''' - Gandalf, [Gandalf]
*'''[[Hikaru79]]''' - Hikaru79
*'''[[Hacker Dan]]''' - Hacker_Dan, Dan
*'''[[timmytheturtle]]''' - timmy, timmytheturtle, timmythetortoise
*'''[[Amailer]]''' - Amailer
*'''[[TheFerret]]''' - TheFerret
*'''[[Martin]]''' - mdkess
*'''[[cartoon_shark]]''' - rdrake

 *Note: May vary greatly when name-switching game is in progress.

==The Future==

The future for #compsci.ca is looking bright, as it receives more and more attention in the compsci.ca community, particularly through the siggies and evangelism of [[Cervantes]], [[Coutsos]], and [[Hikaru79]]. With any luck, it will soon be as integral a part of the compsci.ca experience as the forum has come to be.

[[Hacker Dan]] has made plans to integrate a Java-based IRC client that will send users to the channel directly from the forums. The feature is planned to be included in the new forum software, [[V3]], that hopefully will be completed over the 2005/2006 Christmas break.

Pwned

2006-02-05T20:04:32Z

Cornflake: Fixed summation quotes

Pwned is a meber of compsci.ca widely considered to be a [[noob]]. He thinks he is an amazing and brilliant person. He believes he has enought power to say "He will spare everyone, under the condition that they first bow in respect to him". In reality however Pwned is not amazing at all, and is a rather bumb person; his inability to see that he really has no power at all is only proof that he does not live in the real world. The majority of compsci.ca members have no respect at all for Pwned, in part because of his arrogance and in part because of his use of 1337/noob speak on the forums and his repeated abuse of the admins.

Pwned has been nicely summed up by one member by this:
"Pwned is simply a failure at life. His arrogance blinds him to the true state of the world which, contrary to his belief, does not appreciate rude and disrespectful people like himself." 

"As his highschool career comes to an end, he will hopefully realize the errors of his life thus far. Then again, perhaps he won't, and we can all laugh at him for all eternity."

V3

2006-02-04T23:33:25Z

Cornflake: /* Beta Testers */

This page intentionally left blank, but was added to any way.

==V3 ETA==
'''Alpha Verson''': Befor Summer, Feb. 30th (estmation only)

'''Beta Verson''': Befor next school year, April 30th (estmation only)

'''Public Verson''': Unknow

==User Requests==
Add modifications and other things that you would like to see in V3:

===Added===
*[[Amailer]]: Merge posts comands for mods
*[[Amailer]]: Tutorial rating system
*[[Cervantes]]: Quick Reply box
*[[Martin]]: Add an RSS feed option for various forums. (Can you say awesome?) Yes '''''ADDED''''' but bugy
*[[Martin]]: Timed bans. Like, so I can ban someone for three days and when they login it'd say You have been banned (by [[Martin]]) for whatever reason. There is <x> much time remaining. Then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty.
*[[Martin]]: Get rid of the stupid 'You have a message!' sound that plays and makes the page layout go nuts. '''''ADDED in v2 as well'''''
*[[Rizzix]]: Allow for moderator feedback: aka tutorial rejection. This will help improve the quality of tutorials available on compsci.
*[[Amailer]]: (Maybe) create a system similar to [http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Main_Page Gallery2] '''''A image system like it has be added but not that.'''''

===In development===
*[[Hacker Dan]]: Automated secuirty systems
*[[Martin]]: Fix firefox glow
*[[Tony]]: wiki like bbcode linking
*[[Cervantes]]: Link to Bit Log in profiles (only visible to that user, such as Attachment Control Panel, or mods)
*[[Cornflake]]: Tutorial link to wiki [[Tutorials]] page
*[[Gandalf]]: Time of last log in, on the profile page.
*[[Hikaru79]]: Not having edits, count towards your post/minute timer (so you can edit posts right after you made them if you noticed a problem).
*[[Martin]]: Registration that registers you both on the wiki and compsci.ca with the same account.
*[[rizzix]]: List users by rank, where the rank is the bits/posts ratio.
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user projects: Homepage, CVS, Bugtracker, Development timeline graphs, etc. '''''Partly Added, the CVS part, partly'''''

===Considering===
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=282881 Google Integrated Search] so that it will take alot less time to search and you'll be able to get better results.
*[[Cervantes]]: Commenting for changing bits
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user project bounties.
*[[rizzix]]: Improved award system. Make the awards a little more visible, i.e. not hidden deep within the user's profile.
:It would be cool if at the top right of your post (to the left of the edit button) there was a list of clickable 16x16 icons representing the awards. Each award could have a description attached to it, like - 'awarded to so and so for winning this contest on this day.' Probably kind of time consuming to add though.
:[[User:Martin|Martin]] 00:31, 1 February 2006 (PST)
:Cool maybe but it whould make the posts to corwed with infromation and start looking bad, esptaly if some users had many awards
:--[[User:Hacker Dan|24.109.165.77]] 10:19, 4 February 2006 (PST)
*[[rizzix]]: In-place post editing. That is, display the whole page as it would normally show up when viewing posts, but make the post marked for editing, editable. ( hint: AJAX )
*[[rizzix]]: A WYSIWYG editor, for those who don't like using bbcode or wiki

===Rejected===
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=289721 Democracy MOD 0.1.4 (reputation + warnings + reports)] '''''Difrent mod being used for same thing'''''
*[[Martin]]: Hookers. '''''Added....i mean WTF???'''''
*[[rizzix]]: Allow for wiki sytle editing, as an alternative to bbcode. '''''I don't know about that one....'''''
*[[rizzix]]: Improved tutorial writing system: provides the ability to work on tutorials in offline mode, (a publishing system). The ability take a tutorial offline, edit it, improve it, and re-publish it. Force all tutorials to be approved by ''any'' moderator before it is displayed online. '''''Not going to happen unless some one whonts to write the offline software and backend script to handel post uploads'''''

===Requested===
*[[rizzix]]: Give the tutorial's author bits/month for ''x'' number of years, based on the rating his tutorial has received (since we already have the rating system implemented). This will help improve the number of quality articles we have here on compsci, and will truly reflect the rank of the user.

==Things left to do for V3==
Not usefull to any one but Hacker Dan, but just easy to keep track of this way for him:

*<strike>Edit private message welcome</strike>
*<strike>Errors on forum (posting)</strike>
*<strike>remove aditional info on fourm names (moderator info)</strike>
*posbly remove style drop down
*reoreder nav links
*<strike>remove "switch to invisible"</strike>
*<strike>remove download modual</strike>
*add shop for item pool
*<strike>chage name of knowledge base link</strike>
*<strike>chage pic of knowledge base</strike> '''''Thanks to amailer'''''
*<strike>fix knowledge base approval system</strike>
*<strike>remove lexicon</strike>
*make portal pages
*<strike>add in wiki and blog nav links</strike>
*<strike>try to fix time zones</strike>
*fix order of smiles
*<strike>check spell checker</strike> Fix spell checker
*add user controal panale links
*<strike>edit user aggremnt</strike> Make new rules page
*<strike>chage post icon setings</strike>
*<strike>fix flash bbcode and others</strike> fix or remove flash bbcode
*<strike>set up anwsered/unawsered system</strike>
*edit footer
*edit faq
*<strike>add event types</strike>
*fix link to use modual
*fix contact us deparments
*reorder moduals
*add knowledge base rankings
*deal with user requests
*chage KB tag
*fix IE errors/warnings

==Alpha Verson==
===Alpha Testers===
Aplha users are limited to staff only. If you are staff listed your name below to sing up for the v3 alpha test.

*[[Hacker Dan]]

===Bug Report===
Pleas list your name, the brower you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you where doing and the bug below:

===Comentes and Sugestions===

==Beta Verson==
===Beta Testers===
Any users in good standing may sing up for the beta test. The beta test will being affter all the bugs and chages recomented in the alpha test are made/done. Not all users singed up will get to be a beta tester and order of singing up may or may not matter.

*[[Hacker Dan]]
*[[Cornflake]]

===Bug Report===
Pleas list your name, the brower you are using, the time and date, the error, the url, what you where doing and the bug below:

===Comentes and Sugestions===

==V3 Preview==
The following is rumored to be a pic of [[the]] V3 system:
[[Image:compsci_v3.jpg|thumb|500px|left|V3?]]

Linux

2006-02-01T23:50:37Z

Cornflake: made the gentoo link point to the Gentoo site

Linux is an open source kernel, though it is commonly used to refer to the entire operating system based upon that kernel. It comes in many flavours (distros), the ones most commonly used by [[CompSci.ca]] members are [[Ubuntu]] and [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo]. Some use [http://www.archlinux.org archlinux].

V3

2006-01-30T16:26:44Z

Cornflake: /* Requested */ changed tutorial link to tutorials

This page intentionally left blank, but was added to any way.

==V3 ETA==
'''January 30th, 2010'''

==User Requests==
Add modifications and other things that you would like to see in V3:

===Added===
*[[Amailer]]: Merge posts comands for mods
*[[Amailer]]: Tutorial rating system

*[[Cervantes]]: Quick Reply box

*[[Martin]]: Add an RSS feed option for various forums. (Can you say awesome?) Yes '''''ADDED''''' but bugy

===In development===
*[[Hacker Dan]]: Automated secuirty systems

*[[Martin]]: Fix firefox glow

*[[Tony]]: wiki like bbcode linking

===Requested===
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=282881 Google Integrated Search] so that it will take alot less time to search and you'll be able to get better results.
*[[Amailer]]: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=289721 Democracy MOD 0.1.4 (reputation + warnings + reports)]

*[[Cervantes]]: Link to Bit Log in profiles (only visible to that user, such as Attachment Control Panel, or mods)
*[[Cervantes]]: Commenting for changing bits

*[[Cornflake]]: Tutorial link to wiki [[Tutorials]] page

*[[Gandalf]]: Time of last log in, on the profile page.

*[[Hikaru79]]: Not having edits, count towards your post/minute timer (so you can edit posts right after you made them if you noticed a problem).

*[[Martin]]: Timed bans. Like, so I can ban someone for three days and when they login it'd say You have been banned (by [[Martin]]) for whatever reason. There is <x> much time remaining. Then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty.
*[[Martin]]: Avatar width and height limits PLEASE! Also, can you disable images in people's signatures?
*[[Martin]]: Get rid of the stupid 'You have a message!' sound that plays and makes the page layout go nuts.
*[[Martin]]: Registration that registers you both on the wiki and compsci.ca with the same account.
*[[Martin]]: Hookers.

*[[rizzix]]: List users by rank, where the rank is the bits/posts ratio.
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user projects: Homepage, CVS, Bugtracker, Development timeline graphs, etc.
*[[rizzix]]: Support for user project bounties.
*[[rizzix]]: Improved award system. Make the awards a little more visible, i.e. not hidden deep within the user's profile.
*[[rizzix]]: Allow for wiki sytle editing, as an alternative to bbcode.
*[[rizzix]]: In-place post editing. That is, display the whole page as it would normally show up when viewing posts, but make the post marked for editing, editable. ( hint: AJAX )
*[[rizzix]]: A WYSIWYG editor, for those who don't like using bbcode or wiki

==Things left to do for V3==
Not usefull to any one but Hacker Dan, but just easy to keep track of this way for him:

*Edit private message welcome
*Errors on forum (posting)
*remove aditional info on fourm names (moderator info)
*posbly remove style drop down
*reoreder nav links
*remove "switch to invisible"
*remove download modual
*add shop for item pool
*chage name of knowledge base link
*chage pic of knowledge base
*fix knowledge base approval system
*remove lexicon
*make portal pages
*add in wiki and blog nav links
*try to fix time zones
*fix order of smiles
*check spell checker
*add user controal panale links
*edit user aggremnt
*chage post icon setings
*fix flash bbcode and others
*set up anwsered/unawsered system
*edit footer
*edit faq
*add event types
*fix link to use modual
*fix contact us deparments

==V3 Preview==
The following is rumored to be a pic of [[the]] V3 system:
[[Image:compsci_v3.jpg|thumb|500px|left|V3?]]

User:210.228.17.68

2006-01-28T06:57:57Z

Cornflake:

The IP of a user who has added a quote to [[wtd|wtd's]] page that is wrong. Upon removal this same user put the quote back, again mis-quoted.

Dude, it's one of my ip's.

--[[User:Martin|Martin]] 20:44, 27 January 2006 (PST)

[[User:Cornflake|Cornflake]] oh, so it is

Talk:Wtd

2006-01-27T18:55:29Z

Cornflake:

[[Cornflake]]: The last quote is in dispute. Although it does apear in one post as "I would recommend using Java as a way to start programming." this is a typo that was later corrected by wtd. The corrected quote, "I wouldn't recommend using Java as a way to start programming.", is what should be here because it is what meant to say. While it may be comical for wtd to have made such a slip up to those that know him, to those that don't it is simply mis-information.

Talk:Cornflake

2006-01-27T18:48:28Z

Cornflake:

[[User:220.9.84.29|220.9.84.29]]: Where is the giant 42? Is that the one from Point Pelee? 
[[Cornflake]]: It could be, it could not be. I don't know if I'll answer questions by unidentified people.

User:210.228.17.68

2006-01-27T18:48:17Z

Cornflake:

The IP of a user who has added a quote to [[wtd|wtd's]] page that is wrong. Upon removal this same user put the quote back, again mis-quoted.

Wtd

2006-01-27T18:45:35Z

Cornflake: The quote was definitely mis-quoted. RTFT.

[[Image:wtdduck.png|thumb|120px|right|wtd avatar]]

== Who is WTD? ==
wtd is a resident guru who claims that his alias stands for "Welcome To Darwin", though we all know it really means [[DuckFest|"What The Duck"]].

Wtd is a programmer, currently residing in Vancouver, who has a passion for helping people understand programming since he's been through every frustration related to learning this stuff already, for he is self-taught. He is conversant in C, Objective-C, C++, Java, Scala, Eiffel, Perl, Python, Ruby, O'Caml, Haskell, Pike, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and many other languages. Wtd is more than capable of answering most questions related to Windows, Mac (OS 8, 9, X), Linux, and FreeBSD systems.

Wtd can frequently be found in the [[IRC channel]] helping people out or breaking their minds with new programming concepts.

== Quotes ==
''"Don't reinvent the wheel if there's an existing library function to do it for you"''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=9494]

''"I wouldn't recommend using Java as a way to start programming."''[http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?p=107358#107358]

Talk:Cornflake

2006-01-27T18:44:04Z

Cornflake:

[[User:220.9.84.29|220.9.84.29]]: Where is the giant 42? Is that the one from Point Pelee?
[[Cornflake]]: It could be, it could not be. I don't know if I'll answer questions by unidentified people.

42

2006-01-27T07:06:05Z

Cornflake: The ultimate answer to...

42 is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the univere, and everything; as calculated by the computer known as "Deep Thought". The question is not known, though it is suspected that it is not 6x9. Some of the many questions put forward that seem to fit the bill are 6x7, 7x7-7, 6x9-14, and really any other equation that equals 42.

V3

2006-01-27T07:00:08Z

Cornflake: /* User Requests */ removed person's request; see the forum thread about it.

This page intentionally left blank, but was added to any way.

==V3 ETA==
'''January 30th, 2006'''

==User Requests==
Add modifications and other things that you would like to see in V3:

*[[Amailer]]: Merge posts comands for mods '''''ADDED'''''
*[[Amailer]]: Tutorial rating system '''''ADDED'''''
*[[Hacker Dan]]: Automated secuirty systems ''IN DEVLOPMENT''
*[[Martin]]: Fix firefox glow ''IN DEVLOPMENT''
*[[Tony]]: wiki like bbcode linking ''IN DEVLOPMENT''
*[[Cervantes]]: Quick Reply box '''''ADDED'''''
 
*[[Cornflake]]: Tutorial link to wiki [[Tutorial]] page ''SUGGESTION''
*[[Cervantes]]: Link to Bit Log in profiles (only visible to that user, such as Attachment Control Panel, or mods) ''SUGGESTION''
*[[Cervantes]]: Commenting for changing bits ''SUGGESTION''
*[[Hikaru79]]: Not having edits count towards your post/minute timer (so you can edit posts right after you made them if you noticed a problem).
*[[Gandalf]]: Time of last log in, on the profile page.
 
*[[Martin]]: Add an RSS feed option for various forums. (Can you say awesome?) Yes '''''ADDED''''' but bugy
*[[Martin]]: Timed bans. Like, so I can ban someone for three days and when they login it'd say You have been banned (by [[Martin]]) for whatever reason. There is <x> much time remaining. Then I wouldn't have to feel so guilty.
*[[Martin]]: Avatar width and height limits PLEASE! Also, can you disable images in people's signatures?

==Things left to do for V3==
Not usefull to any one but Hacker Dan, but just easy to keep track of this way for him:

*Edit private message welcome
*Errors on forum (posting)
*remove aditional info on fourm names (moderator info)
*posbly remove style drop down
*reoreder nav links
*remove "switch to invisible"
*remove download modual
*add shop for item pool
*chage name of knowledge base link
*chage pic of knowledge base
*fix knowledge base approval system
*remove lexicon
*make portal pages
*add in wiki and blog nav links
*try to fix time zones
*fix order of smiles
*check spell checker
*add user controal panale links
*edit user aggremnt
*chage post icon setings
*fix flash bbcode and others
*set up anwsered/unawsered system
*edit footer
*edit faq
*add event types
*fix link to use modual
*fix contact us deparments

==V3 Preview==
The following is rumored to be a pic of [[the]] V3 system:
[[Image:compsci_v3.jpg|thumb|500px|left|V3?]]

2005-12-15T07:22:10Z

Cornflake:

==So you want to learn C++?==

I'll tell you something up front. C++ is a big, complex language with lots of very subtle ways to screw up, and the tools aren't going to provide much of a safety net.

You may want to learn C++ because that's what all of the games you play are written in, and because C++ programs can be really fast. Yes, these things are true. Guess what, though? It doesn't matter. If you're a novice programmer, still learning basic programming concepts, C++ makes learning them much harder than it has to be. It'll be hard enough without using tools that go out of their way to confuse you.

You should be looking elsewhere.

==What do you need?==

Ideally, you should be using a *nix-based OS, like Linux, *BSD, or Mac OS X, but since most of you are likely using Windows, these directions will be tailored to you.

[[Editing and Compiling programs on windows via MinGW|Gandalf's excellent thread on this subject is where you should look.]]

Aside from this, you need a basic understanding of the Windows command-line. Understand directories, and how to navigate between them. Also understand how to invoke programs and pass arguments and options to them.

Hello, world!

The classic beginning.

<code>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;

return 0;
}
</code>

==Organization==

All executable code in C++ is organized into functions. The "main" function is just such a function. It serves as the "entry point" for the program. When the program is run, this is where execution starts.

We can of course create our own functions, and I'll get to that eventually.

It should be noted that even things which do not look like functions can be. In the "Hello, world!" example, the <code><<</code> operator is a function.

The simplest explanation of functions is that they translate one or more values to some new value. In the case of main, the parentheses following the name "main" are empty, so the function essentially translates nothing to some "int" value which represents the success or failure of the program. Zero is success, and anything ese is some kind of failure.

Of course, in the process of doing that translation, side-effects may occur which change the environment. Printing a message to the screen would count as a side-effect.

==Simple output==

The "cout" in "std::cout" is short for "common output". This is almost always represented by the console. The << operator is a nice visual cue that the information on the right hand side of the operator is being sent to the output channel on the left hand side.

We can see this in the Hello world program.

<code>
std::cout << "Hello, world!"
</code>

Of course, that doesn't explain How two of those operators got in there.

<code>
"Hello, world!" << std::endl
</code>

Doesn't make sense.

It makes sense, however, if we consider that << is a function which takes an output channel and a string (or many other kinds of things) and translates them to the same output channel.

<code>
std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
</code>

Becomes a convenient shorthand for:

<code>
std::cout << "Hello, world!";
std::cout << std::endl;
</code>

==Declaring variables==

Variables provide us a convenient place to store data, and allow us to give meaningful names to that data.

To create a variable, it must first be declared. This declaration provides us with information on the name of the variable, and the type of data which can be stored in it. Once we associate a particular type with that variable, we cannot store any other type in it.

<code>
int myNumber;
</code>

The above declares a simple "int" variable called "myNumber". All other declarations follow this simple pattern.

<code>
char myCharacter;
</code>

Variables should be declared within functions such as "main". They can be declared outside of functions, but these are called "global variables", and are very difficult to keep track of in larger programs as well as making small programs harder to expand.

Good:
<code>
int main()
{
int myInteger;

return 0;
}
</code>

Bad:
<code>
int myInteger;

int main()
{
return 0;
}
</code>

==Initializing variables==

When we declare a variable, we specify its name, and the type of data it can hold. For many data types, though, including the simple ones we're using now, simply declaring the variable does not give it an initial value that we can work with. Declaring a variable without initializing it will often, in fact, result in a random value being stored in that variable.

So, how do we initialize a variable?

There are two answers, and the differences between them only arise when dealing with more complex data.
<code>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
int myInteger = 42;

std::cout << myInteger << std::endl;

return 0;
}
</code>

<code>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
int myInteger(42);

std::cout << myInteger << std::endl;

return 0;
}
</code>

==Why are they called "variable"?==

Because their values can change. This change is affected through the use of assignment. We "assign" a new value to the variable.

<code>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
int myInteger = 42;

std::cout << myInteger << std::endl;

myInteger = 27;

std::cout << myInteger << std::endl;

return 0;
}
</code>

You'll notice that assignment looks an awful lot like one of the forms of assignment. There's a good reason for this.

That form of initialization is assignment. It's just rolled into one tidy package with declaration.

==Discussion==
To discuss this tutorial visit [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=10121 here].

==Credits==
Tutorial written by [[wtd]], moved to wiki by [[Cornflake]]