https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

https://www.learnpythonthehardway.org/

http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/

Once you get through one of those books, you'll have a much greater understanding of programming fundamentals. You'll have the foundation in place to tackle something more specific.

Get back to me once you've done that and we can talk some more. AMA along the way.

Gonna knock out an FtN article before bed 😃

Hmmm. "Learn Python the Hard Way" used to be free

I've *heard* that if you go to qwant.com and search for "learn python the hard way pdf" you'll find that free version still floating around out there.

Could I pick these up at a library?

possibly. but there are free PDFs as well

you can try this too ?: https://www.codecademy.com/

Anyone @here that familiar with Java?

@here anybody here good with video editing, specifically adobe premier pro? I am editing some go pro footage the quality is coming out less than desireable. I think i have all the settings right. • Format: H264
• Preset: HD 720 p 29.97 or 1080 for super high
• Width 1280
• Progressive square pixel
• Profile: high
• Level 5.2

@Brandon Ironside- ND sorry man i use sony vegas pro

i find youtube to actually be a really good resource on video editing techniques if you phrase your query directly

come to think of it - i am wondering what quality the raw go-pro footage is 720 at 60fps or 1080 at 30 fps, right?

Yea its a hero 3 so 1080p or 720p. When I play the raw footage it is really good quality then after editing and rendering i loose alot of quality but im exporting in 720p so i dont know why its doing that.

@Lukas - NC I'm fluent in C#, which has a lot in common with Java. If you're trying to figure out what's wrong with a particular bit of code, I might be able to help.

@Brandon Ironside- ND I haven't used Premiere in years, but I do work quite a bit in After Effects these days. Losing a lot of quality is interesting, something is happening there beyond just you saying "output dimensions = input dimensions" some interpolation or re-compression is happening. How "bad" does it look? post a before and after pic of a couple of the frames...

how do i rebase to a past commit? I keep trying to rebase -i t <past ssh> but it says there is a sytax error

i removed the last commit but it unstaged it how do delete the past stages to clean up my terminal?

nvm got it

hard reset force push got it done

@Brandon Ironside- ND what bitrate are you exporting the video at?

Resolution is one thing but bitrate would be the quality as opposed to the resolution.

```var words =(hello, hi, howdy)

function findLongWords(arr, num){
const result= arr.filter(arr => arr.length > num);
return result;
}

findLongWords (words, 4)```

I don't know what i'm doing incorrectly

@sigruna14

@Bobby - Pa Use [] instead of () around the word list. They're insulted you're comparing them to Jews and so they don't wanna cooperate. Also in the future please post your exact error message.

```
var words = ["hello", "hi", "howdy"];

function findLongWords(arr, num){
var result = []
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
// console.log(arr[i]);
if (arr[i].length > num) {
console.log(arr[i]);
result += [arr[i] + ", "];
}
return result;
}

findLongWords (words, 4);
```
just got it, I'm ashamed of my behavior towards the code, I hope it can forgive me one day, and will do, thanks man i appreciate it.

@sigruna14

Haha cool. Oh and good catch, need quotes around the words, too.

Anyone here use dirpy to download music from youtube? @here

I've just used those free websites.

which ones are those?

i am having trouble downloading complete songs on dirpy.. it'll download the first 30-60 secs of a song but thats it

it used to download the entire song perfectly fine

I just google youtube downloader.

bunch of free ones

Sounds like it was a demo copy that expired. I can't download anything anymore because of some problem with routing ports. Happened out of nowhere. Torrents don't work and neither does soulseek. Basically went from getting anything I wanted in great quality to being a pleb.