Introduction ⁽⁵⁾

If you're a student and you're reading this, I just made you clench a little with that title, didn't I?  Well, here's some news you can use: it never really goes away. Ten years ago next month, I sat for the CISSP exam.  Being a…

In the first and second installments of this series I talked about all the operations players can perform in this game, and this final installment will give some details of how players move up through the sixteen levels of the game. Player Level Requirements All…

UPDATED August 1, 2015 for SoftBank Ultra-Links In my first post about Ingress, I introduced the basic principles of the game and I surveyed what I think a novice player needs to know about hacking portals and deploying resonators. Today I will continue with a discussion of…

UPDATED August 1, 2015 for new item types Ingress is a game that was introduced by Niantic Labs (an internal start-up of Google) in November, 2012. At first I avoided it as it seemed a senseless time-suck, but in mid-2013 my daughter convinced me to…

When you're learning a new programming language, something like this is usually the first working program you write. PRINT *, "Hello World!" END If you don't recognize Fortran IV, I can't blame you but that's approximately where I started. "Hello World" programs are a near-universal…