Python

Python is the first programming I learned at my freshman year in college. At first, it seemed to me a little bit complicated because I did not have any programming experience before. However, after I met different kinds of programming languages such as C, C++, Java, VHDL, MIPS, Haskell and many others, I realized that Python is much more simpler and easier to use than any others. What makes Python such a great language? I can give many reasons to that question:
First of all, Python forces you to use indentation when you write programs and this is especially useful for novice programmers like me :) Because using indentation when you write programs makes your much more readable and understandable.
Secondly, you can write sequential programs in Python like in any other imperative language but more that that Python has "class" feature like C++ and Java and this enables you to write Object-oriented programs. That's why, Python is another useful language not only for C programmers also for C++ and Java programmers used to doing OOP sytle programming.
Thirdly, Python has rich libraries and you can find many useful built-in functions and this feature is a time saver when you deal with large projects because you do not have write functions from scratch in this way.
(I could give many other reasons but) Finally, Python has dynamic data types. What does it mean? It means that you do not have to tell Python interpreter the type of variable. You can use it as a string, integer, float, character etc. You cannot do that in C or C++, because you have to declare the data type of a varible before you use it. In Python, a variable can act like any data type and you can play with it in which way you want! Unfortunately, this feature makes Python programs slower than corresponding C and C++ ones, but computers are fast enough today, so if you write small programs, it is not even worth to talk about speed differences :)
If you are a novice programmer, I highly recommend you to use Python to enter programming world. You will see that it is worth to use...

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Chris De(de) Burgh

My father told me about him. It was the time when I was 16 or 17 I guess, and I thought that "Hmm, why don't I find anything else new to listen?" and it was the time I started to listen James Blunt, One Republic, Take That etc. When I was watching James Blunt's "Carry You Home" music video, I said to my father that "Dad, did you check this song of James Blunt before?" (He is the person who watched "You're Beautiful" before anyone else in the family), he said "No", and he added "If you like these kind of songs, I know a singer called Chris De Burgh, his voice is softer than him(James Blunt), but full of emotion". This conversation made me curious about him and I remember that when I found the first chance to go online, I checked a song of Chris De Burgh. The rest? The rest is unexplainable. When I listen "A Woman's Heart", the song made me so happy and sad at the same time. The song was full of emotion. There was a beautiful background music,(first time in my life I figured out that an electro-guitar could be used in such a good way in a love song), an amazing voice, all lyrics were telling you something about relationships, women, love, life... I kept listening "Forevermore", "Carry Me(Like a Fire in Your Heart)", "Borderline", "The Last of Moments of The Dawn", "When I Think of You"... To sum up, I was fascinated by his songs. This was the beginning of an era.

After all, Chris De Burgh became one of my favourite artists, I bought several albums of him, his songs outnumbers songs of any artists in my playlist. I introduced him to my sis, and made her like him :)
Chris De Burgh's voice is such a voice that it can calm anybody, and I do not think about that he can yell at a person, he has such a voice. When I first heard that voice, it made me think that "That voice must belong to a noble man!!!" and if you read his life from somewhere you can see that, he lived in a castle once...  
If you love "love songs", he is one of the guys you have to give a shot...
We all admire you Chris De Burgh, I hope you will produce amazing songs "Forevermore"...
(p.s Dede means grandfather in Turkish. That's why, the title is Chris De(de) Burgh, because he looks like a nice grandpa :)
       
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I'm back

I think it has been a while for me to write something here, but I admit that I did not have enough time as I was struggling with my school :) However, after this post I will start to write something new, I always want to choose different topics from different fields (as you can see from my earlier posts), this situation will continue and I will try as much as possible to write different things. I think next week I will write something about music, but I do not know what to write yet, so see you next week...

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Io parlo L'italiano, e tu?

Mi chiamo Ali Can, sono un studente all'universita technic di Medio Oriente e studio del dipertimento di ingeneria di computer. Comincero' a scrivere che io penso e che io ammiro con tu, ciao ci vediamo, buonanotte :)

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"Medieval II Total War"

This week I want to talk about a different subject which is a computer game: "Medieval II Total War". The most of the things I met in my life were just coincidence and "Medieval II Total War" was one of them. When I went to the store to buy a game, I noticed this game, but at first I did not want to buy it, because I had never played a strategy game and I did not want to be disappointed. However, after I picked up it and turned the game box back, I was impressed (Still today I admire the design and content of the box). Then I bought it.
I'm not a person who plays the computer games with tutorials or learns from online videos, I'd prefer to learn a game by just playing it, and I think this way is much more fun. Anyway, after I played the game a couple of hours, my respect to this game was increased because of the graphics, playibility, sounds (especially sounds, even today sometimes I find myself mumble the melodies of the game somewhere weird places such as: a bus, a classroom, a bathroom, a lunchline etc.), and the story behind the game (medieval countries). After playing this game, I searched the Internet and I found that there were other total war games like; Rome Total War, Shogun Total War. Next, I decided to keep in touch with new total war games.
I bought Empire Total War, and Napoleon Total War too, but if you ask me if they are better than "Medieval II Total War", I say "No", because this game was a milestone for me and I found nothing newly impressive in new total war games, yes they have amazing graphics, maybe better AI, sea wars, but I just could not find the same taste that I took from "Medieval II Total War". It is the game I can spend hours for playing and I do not think this will change in the near future (This ideas are all my own ideas. Some people can think different about the total war games and I respect to that).
We expect Rome Total War III in an excited way and we ask Creaative Assembly to do "Medieval III Total War" by keeping the originality of the game and the scenerio to take same good feelings and pleasures again.
                       
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