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2020-04-09: After Using Eclipse for 10 Years, I Switched to IDEA [Translated]

Original post:  https://www.cnblogs.com/ouyida3/p/9901312.html  published in December 2018. Preamble : The original text was in Chinese. I first got the "raw translation" from Google Translate. Here is my impression of Google Translate: 75% or more text made sense but only about 25% text read authentic. As a result, I have to manually edit A LOT to make the post readable. The original post was about 50% longer than what I posted here. After using Eclipse for 10 years, I finally switched to IDEA . I did not start with Eclipse when I became a Java programmer, but a tool called jBuilder. When I started using this tool, I already found it very easy to use, because previously, I just used a simple text editor. It didn't take long for me to find a tool called Eclipse, and there was an increasing number of users. At the end of the "test drive", I found it to be very user friendly. The functions inside were just tailored for the programmers. One exciting feature...

2018-07-22: Tic-Tac-Toe and Magic Square Made Me a Problem Solver and Programmer

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" How did you learn programming? ", a student asked me in a recent summer camp. Dr. Yaohang Li organized the Machine Learning and Data Science Summer Camp  for High School students of the Hampton Roads metropolitan region at the Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University  from June 25 to July 9, 2018. The camp was funded by the  Virginia Space Grant Consortium . More than 30 students participated in it. They were introduced to a variety of topics such as Data Structures, Statistics, Python, R, Machine Learning, Game Programming, Public Datasets, Web Archiving, and Docker etc. in the form of discussions, hands-on labs, and lectures by professors and graduate students. I was invited to give a lecture about my research and Docker . At the end of my talk I solicited questions and distributed Docker swag. The question "How did you learn programming?" led me to draw Tic-Tac-Toe Game and a 3x3 Magic Square on the white board. Then I told them a mo...