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Dr J R Stockton  
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 More options Sep 24 2008, 11:02 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
From: Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stock...@physics.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Sep 24 2008 11:02 am
Subject: Re: Need some JavaScript puzzles
On Sep 23, 9:01 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@web.de>
wrote:

> Oltmans wrote:
> >> You will not become what you aspire to be by solving trivial puzzles.  Find
> >> a *real-world problem* that you want to solve.

NO.  Real-world problems are generally either trivial or complex, and
neither is appropriate for practice.  OP, choose instead problems
which, at your current state of knowledge, are on the verge of
difficulty.  When you approach the ability to do a real-world non-
trivial problem that you want to solve, set it aside; the risks of
including someting bad and not realising it or not bothering to fix it
are too great.  Instead, choose a problem of sufficient fifficulty
which you do not need to solve, so that you can throw away the
solution.  Don't assume premature competence.

Tackle problems that you really need to solve only when you know
enough to be reasonably sure of making a good job of them.

> Please shorten, but do not remove attribution lines for quotations you leave in.

Ignore that : people give attributions for a purpose, and full
attributions are useful in various ways that Thomas Lahn does not
understand.  Remember, be is not psychologically normal, as is obvious
from reading a selection of his replies.  Perhaps he is the Kaiser
reincarnated; perhaps something worse.

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