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Project Ara is a modular smartphone concept, viewer feedback from our G+ community, Heartbleed in action, and more! Project Ara is a Google "Modular Smartphone" concept
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Is there a Hard Drive Limit on the Linksys WRT1900AC?
Tap Confussion
Is somebody spying on my computer?
Has money... wants to buy stuff
Multi-floor setup
Broken Screen or Busted Laptop?
Will $Crypto Mining kill my PC?
Neighbors are destroying my WiFi... can I paint them out?
Finished Raspberry Pi MAME Project
Steam OS "Episode Idea"
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Scott chats with home theater legend Yves Faroudja about his career and research.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Yves Faroudja

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The FCC proposes new rules some say will end net neutrality, Facebook buys Moves, Amazon beats estimates then takes on FedEx and UPS, Microsoft beat earnings, tech giants fund OpenSSL, Google+ loses its chief, and Google Glass is NOT on sale for everyone.

Host: Sarah Lane

Guest: Brad Chacos

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Welcome to Coding 101 - It's the TWiT show that gives YOU the knowledge to live in the wonderful world of the programmer. This week we are introducing our newest module, Python with Code Warrior Dale Chase!

To see all the code used in today's episode, go to Our Github Repository for Module 2
Loops (Recap)
As we may recall, loops are an easy way to reuse code.
It allows us to "loop" a section of code so that it doesn't have to be written over and over.
For Loops

For Loops use a "range" function to determine the start and the end of the loop.

Code Sample:

for counter in range(0,3):

- print counter

Notice how the counter print statement ran from 0 - 2 and NOT 0 - 3. That's because the counter is incremented at the end of each loop and each loop does a pre-test. After the code prints "2", 1 is added to the counter. When it loops back to the range function, the counter is "3" - Since we told the loop to rune as long as we are "in range" of 0 to 3", it will no longer run. (it's the same as "" in C#)
if/else statements

A "if" statement evaluates an relational expression and executes a block of code if that expression is true.
Code Sample:

a = raw_input("Please enter a whole number:")

b = raw_input("Please enter a second whole number:")

if a b:

print "a is less than b"

A "if/else" statement evaluates a relational expression and executes a block of code if that expression is true, AND EXECUTES A DIFFERENT BLOCK OF CODE IF THAT EXPRESSION IS FALSE
Code Sample:

a = raw_input("Please enter a whole number:")

b = raw_input("Please enter a second whole number:")

if a b:

- print "a is less than b"

elif a == b:

- print "a is equal to b"

else:

- print "b is less than a"

The Modulo (Mod) Operator

It does a division calculator and returns the remainder of that division
Syntax: "a%b"
Which means, "Divide a by b, and return the value of the remainder of that division"
Sample Problem

Find a way to decide if a user-inputed number is odd or even!
If we wanted to know if a number is odd or even, we would use the Mod operator on a value, dividing it by 2 and checking to see what number is returned as the remainder:
If the number is "0", then we know the number was EVEN because dividing by 2 left no remainder
If the number is "1", then we know that the number was ODD because dividing ANY odd number would leave a remainder of 1.
Sample Code:

var1 = raw_input("Please enter a whole number:")

leftover = int(var1) % 2

if leftover == 0:

- print var1, "is an even number"

else:

- print var1, "is an odd number"

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Shannon Morse

Guest: Dale Chase

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AMD's AM1 the ultimate low end gaming machine, Gigabyte's new motherboards, our favorite mechanical keyboards, optical USB cables, and more.

Hosts: Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout

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Amber & Sarah chat with Mightybell's Gina Bianchini, Google+ head Vic Gundotra leaves the company, Facebook buys Moves app, is Famatic rad or fad? And more!

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane

Guest: Gina Bianchini

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