You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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There's nothing more exciting to see with your glasses on, while you look nice. You can take those off if you wish to, or you can try to just be splitting the light in the room until the TAs grab your glasses, either is fine.

虽然你们戴着眼镜很好看，但现没什么东西需要戴着看了，你们可以拿掉了,或者你们在助教收上来之前，试试看分开屋里的光。

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You can brute force it and unfortunately, the so-called Caesar cipher is not very secure because if you assume, for our purposes in English alphabet with 26 characters, say all lowercase for all uppercase, my God, you only have to try like 24, 25, 26 possible rotations until you can figure out what his secret message is.

你可以强行解密但是不幸地是，所谓的凯撒密码不是很安全的,因为如果假设，对于我们的26个字符的字母表,指明所有的小写为大写，我的天，你只要试24，25次，26次就可以解答出,密文的内容。

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In the early days when there are four or five formulas, you could memorize all of them and you can try each one of them until something works, but after a couple of weeks you will have a hundred formulas and you cannot memorize all of them.

刚开始我们只会涉及到四,五个公式,你可以全部记下来,你可以一个一个试,直到解出答案,但过了几个星期,你就已经学了一百多个公式了,你没法全部记下来

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