There are various keyboard shortcuts that one can use to navigate and manipulate text very quickly and easily using only your keyboard. Some of these shortcuts include Copying, Cutting and Pasting. These are fundamental shortcuts that everyone should know because they are virtually universal in all text programs as well as in your operating system and will make your life easier.

For copying simply select the text you want to copy and press CTRL and C at the same time. Then move to the place you want to paste it and press control V. If you want to remove the text from the original spot you can Cut it by pressing CTRL and X and then paste it using CTRL and C.

You can navigate text quickly by using CTRL. Simply hold down the CTRL button and use the arrow keys and you will move by a single word. A word is defined by being separated by a space. Sometimes if there are hyphens this method will go to the hyphen, but in general it will move by the word separated by a space.

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“There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”

Do you get it? If not, then this article is for you! Binary is the basic ‘language’ of computers. Common analogies are on and off switches. In binary, on and off are represented with 1 and 0 respectively.

Computers use bytes to store data. A byte is represented by 8 bits. A bit is a single 0 or 1. The highest number value a byte can go up to is 255. Technically it’s 256 values because 0 is a value which is a power of 2.

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So a couple weeks ago I met a group of 5 other people at Panera Bread in Mira Mesa, CA and we discussed working as a team for this Ludum Dare competition. Ludum Dare is a competition that is held 3 times a year and does not have a cash prize at all. The object of the competition is to create a game in 72 hours as a group or if you enter individually 48 hours. This time at Ludum Dare 22 there were 891 entries combined with the Jam(group) and Compo(single). Only 174 were Jam entries.

We discussed the types of games we liked to play and our skills we could bring to the group and it turns out we had 3 programmers and 3 artists. The competition took place over a weekend at 6pm PST Friday evening until 6pm that Monday evening. We decided to go with a top down game and we used Unity 3d as the engine for the game using c# as the language. Our artists used Maya and 3ds Max for the art assets.

Keep in mind I had only met this group a week prior and then spent just about 60-72 straight hours with them in the same vicinity. We, of course, took sleeping breaks and ate because there’s only so long you can go without sleep before you are useless at anything you might try to do.
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How many times have you gotten half way down the page typing and something has happened that made you lose the whole thing? It has happened to me many times (unfortunately). If you are using Microsoft Word it does have a back up and recovery feature, but it isn’t foolproof, you still can lose a lot of work.

There are many other programs that may be used on a daily basis that don’t have this recovery feature. One rule of thumb is to save right away and then save every 5 or so minutes. I suggest every time you are done with another paragraph or a big change click that save button or press CTRL + S.
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