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Excerpts of "Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught" by Gian-Carlo Rota

"The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need. Since it is too late for me to learn these lessons, I will discharge my unfulfilled duty by dishing them out to you. They will be stated in order of increasing controversiality."

Lecturing

###Lesson 1: Every lecture should only one main point.

	#!/bin/bash

	while $true
	do
	{ echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $(wc -c <"$1")\r\n\r\n"; cat "$1"; } \| nc -l 8080
	#echo -n -> do not output the trailing newline
	#echo -e -> enable interpretation of backslash escape
	#nc -l -> listen for an incoming connection instead of initiating one
	#IS IT POSSIBLE TO SEND A WRONG HTTP REQUEST TO PORT 8080 AND STILL GET THE STANDARD RESPONSE?
	#-->test with curl!

	int main() {
	double z_factor = 2; //zoom factor
	double center_x = -0.5; //x coordinate of zoom center
	double center_y = 0; //y coordinate of zoom center
	double width = 128;
	double height = 40;
	int k = 0;
	double i, j, r, x, y = -height/2;
	while(puts(""), y++ < height/2 + 1) {
	for(x = 0; x++<width;) {

	// 10PRINT rosette Processing 3 code
	// thanks to @shiffman and @jmutterer!

	static float r=30;
	static float s=10;

	int i, j;
	static int maxI = 60;
	static int maxJ = 25;

	#insert filename of any image
	String fname = "../sample-images/earth.jpg";
	#insert width and height of image
	int imgWidth = 256;
	int imgHeight = 256;
	PImage img;

	void settings() {
	size(imgWidth, imgHeight);
	}