Yeah, I have the same problem - I procrastinate a lot. If you're working for yourself, you might want to try and do a sprint system - write out cards, make estimates on the difficulty and aim to do so many difficulty points a week. That way you can give yourself concrete goals and a sense of progress, without having a spiky workload (as you go along you'll get better at estimating and choosing the right number of cards to do).CrystalShadow said:
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Yeah, at my uni we did half lectures, half practicals. For the homework, don't you have a lab you can go to?Ddgafd said:
If the work is boring, make your own stuff! In the first year of uni, I did the beginner programming course because I hadn't done a whole lot of code before, but I was quicker at picking things up than most of the class. To stave off boredom from the assignments, I did my own project using the skills I had picked up. You might find it a much more fun and practical way to learn. Plenty of simple games that you can try to recreate in Java.
My first personal project was "click the thing" in Delphi. Was a game where a doodad bounced around the window, and you had to click on it - I say doodad as you could select the image of what you wanted to destroy. Was a choice so I could send it as an innocuous "Click the Ball", but some of my friends wanted to load in an image of a particular lecturer they hated
.Yeah, I found the poll kinda lacking. Still voted in it though. I help code a whole bunch o' webapps plus a few tools around it... so I program tiny things and big things... an' most of it is a suite of apps, but it's not an office suite... doesn't quite fit anywhere tbhNecrofudge said:
. Voted large apps in the end, lol.
This year at school we started Javascript and HTML, but we never really learned how to apply it. Next year at school though we are going to learn C# and how to make games in it I believe.
Currently learning C++ from my friend in order to ease the work load for him because he tries to do way to much work. So I'm a beginner at the moment.
I work as a software developer. So - to answer one of your questions - I am motivated by money!
I've been properly coding for about five years (not including static web development, which I've been doing for longer but doesn't really count). I make my living programming in Java (with lots of Javascript and other web tools thrown in) but I also have experience with C, C# and the tiniest amount of Python.
I've been interested in software since I was a teenager, but didn't consider it as a career until I realised that there's no money in zoology. (Or archeology. Or religious studies. Or anything else I had a passion for as a teenager.)
Nice to see you have internet down there.
I've been properly coding for about five years (not including static web development, which I've been doing for longer but doesn't really count). I make my living programming in Java (with lots of Javascript and other web tools thrown in) but I also have experience with C, C# and the tiniest amount of Python.
I've been interested in software since I was a teenager, but didn't consider it as a career until I realised that there's no money in zoology. (Or archeology. Or religious studies. Or anything else I had a passion for as a teenager.)
I had a lecturer at uni who referred to you guys as "warlocks of the pit", and insisted that you all stay locked in basements, far away from sunlight and normal human beings.ewhac said:
Nice to see you have internet down there.
I only progamming I know is a little bit of HTML back in High school. My uncle on the other hand is a proffessional progammer so he does tell me a few things about it.
Kind of merged with Sinclair BASIC to form a gestalt consciousness at the age of 4 when my dad got me to type in a load of listings for games he'd written. His bedroom coder business never really took off, but I was raised on that at the same time as learning to write rudimentary sentences in english and add up. Therefore, that sonofabitch has ruined me for "real programming" probably forever.
But I can write you a mean 16k chess-like strategy battle game.
Dabbled in FaST BASIC and STOS on my Atari ST, but never really got anywhere (it had so many much better, easily loaded programs available vs the Speccy). Got a second wind with QBasic then GWBasic (yes, in that order :-/) on the PC, which was a little easier and more powerful. One I basically made Gorillas and Snake mods with, and wrote a load of chaotic not-very-good demos and timewaster textmode games.
The other, I got 95% through producing a working, playable, Hercules Mono Text Mode version of Space Invaders - I had the ship, the shields, bullets, sound effects... and a single alien. Killable, at least. The only remaining steps were to make a whole wave of them (fairly easily implemented with an array) and the boss ship. The slowdown effect would happen naturally, as it was BASIC on a 12mhz 286. Then I got the good idea to try and upgrade that computer from DOS 5 to DOS 6.22 ... without backing up first. Bye bye, GW Basic. Whoops.
Also through the DOS/Win3.1/95 days I was a mean hand with a batch file. Basically had the entire boot process running off a fairly sophisticated, hierarchical menu system, with multiple and automatic startup file changes and reboots for playing certain overly-demanding games.
Since then not done much. There hasn't really been much point other than hobbyist tinkering - stuff like Scratch or TinyBasic. Maybe when I run up against a problem that no-one else has yet made an app for, I'll figure out something a bit more modern and useful (Perl would be good, so I can fix Get_iPlayer properly), but until then there's better things to waste time on, like this.
(BTW would stuff like SEUCK/3DCK count?)
edit: oh, and seeing the above post, I can do a little bit of HTML (upto frames and very simple PHP-MySQL level, but not CSS & the like) and some MS Access databasing, but I never really considered that stuff so much as programming, more like an advanced form of word processing / spreadsheeting...
But I can write you a mean 16k chess-like strategy battle game.
Dabbled in FaST BASIC and STOS on my Atari ST, but never really got anywhere (it had so many much better, easily loaded programs available vs the Speccy). Got a second wind with QBasic then GWBasic (yes, in that order :-/) on the PC, which was a little easier and more powerful. One I basically made Gorillas and Snake mods with, and wrote a load of chaotic not-very-good demos and timewaster textmode games.
The other, I got 95% through producing a working, playable, Hercules Mono Text Mode version of Space Invaders - I had the ship, the shields, bullets, sound effects... and a single alien. Killable, at least. The only remaining steps were to make a whole wave of them (fairly easily implemented with an array) and the boss ship. The slowdown effect would happen naturally, as it was BASIC on a 12mhz 286. Then I got the good idea to try and upgrade that computer from DOS 5 to DOS 6.22 ... without backing up first. Bye bye, GW Basic. Whoops.
Also through the DOS/Win3.1/95 days I was a mean hand with a batch file. Basically had the entire boot process running off a fairly sophisticated, hierarchical menu system, with multiple and automatic startup file changes and reboots for playing certain overly-demanding games.
Since then not done much. There hasn't really been much point other than hobbyist tinkering - stuff like Scratch or TinyBasic. Maybe when I run up against a problem that no-one else has yet made an app for, I'll figure out something a bit more modern and useful (Perl would be good, so I can fix Get_iPlayer properly), but until then there's better things to waste time on, like this.
(BTW would stuff like SEUCK/3DCK count?)
edit: oh, and seeing the above post, I can do a little bit of HTML (upto frames and very simple PHP-MySQL level, but not CSS & the like) and some MS Access databasing, but I never really considered that stuff so much as programming, more like an advanced form of word processing / spreadsheeting...
Did mine self study, I've started off with Comptia certifications, want to get on to the Microsoft certs next. It's MUCH more affordable buying text books and learning the stuff yourself then taking a fulltime course, the exams are still reasonably expensive but you're paying x00's rather then x000's. Took my exams in a test center in London, great place with very helpful staff (missed one due to train failure, they had no problems whatsoever in rescheduling free of charge).Nalbis said:
I studied computer science for 1 and a half year, (I quit this November because I wanted to focus more on user support) so I learned a bit, I was part of a team that programmed an application for an airport system to keep track of helicopter pilots, their hour flown, in months, days, weeks, years, fatigue, and keep track of all the Fit-to-fly rules they have to go through.
It was a *****, to be frank, the program itself had fairly limited features, It could add new pilots to an SQL database, keep track of pilots, delete, edit them, and calculate their hours flown, as well as make basic changes to the rules. what took time was the endless checks and call backs to the database for all of their different little thing, as well as implementing their many, many rules.
This was written in Java, I then went on and learned some C# as well.
It was a *****, to be frank, the program itself had fairly limited features, It could add new pilots to an SQL database, keep track of pilots, delete, edit them, and calculate their hours flown, as well as make basic changes to the rules. what took time was the endless checks and call backs to the database for all of their different little thing, as well as implementing their many, many rules.
This was written in Java, I then went on and learned some C# as well.
I myself am a novice in Computer Science and programming. All I've done is worked through MIT's 6.00 course (haven't touch 6.001) and Harvard's CS50 (planning on taking http://cs101-class.org too), as well as the fall courses offered for free by Stanford University on AI, Machine Learning, and Databases.
The best part of it all is that unlike every other field in the world (Medicine, Engineering, whatever), there's all this free material available on the internet (SDKs, Learning resources, Libraries, Algorithms, E-Books, etc at little to no cost), so I'm certain you can actually build a career out of it if you're able to use such materials to learn about a specific domain in the field, and work to derive further experience in that domain.
I still have lots to learn about programming; I'm only fairly versed in Python and C. I've seen both languages used to do lots of cool projects, however, and I'm probably going to do the same eventually, while going deeper into the various fields of computer science, Breadth-First!
The best part of it all is that unlike every other field in the world (Medicine, Engineering, whatever), there's all this free material available on the internet (SDKs, Learning resources, Libraries, Algorithms, E-Books, etc at little to no cost), so I'm certain you can actually build a career out of it if you're able to use such materials to learn about a specific domain in the field, and work to derive further experience in that domain.
I still have lots to learn about programming; I'm only fairly versed in Python and C. I've seen both languages used to do lots of cool projects, however, and I'm probably going to do the same eventually, while going deeper into the various fields of computer science, Breadth-First!
been coding as a hobby for about a decade, professionally for 6 years.
Mostly work in Java but for client-side there's nothing I love more than Flex. I understand the reasons why ppl hate Flash(though disagree with many) but as a developer, no other framework/syntax has been as enjoyable to work in as Flex.
Mostly work in Java but for client-side there's nothing I love more than Flex. I understand the reasons why ppl hate Flash(though disagree with many) but as a developer, no other framework/syntax has been as enjoyable to work in as Flex.
C#/XNA six months experience. I've created some extremely terrible XBOX/GFWL compatible compiled projects, but I'd never want to play them myself because they're abysmal. My ultimate desire is to get good enough at games programming that I can release something actually worth playing.
Jesus, we've got to find a way to disable it. I don't want to hear about assembly code all day.
THEY HAVE INTERNET DOWN THERE?!MetalMagpie said:I had a lecturer at uni who referred to you guys as "warlocks of the pit", and insisted that you all stay locked in basements, far away from sunlight and normal human beings.ewhac said:
Nice to see you have internet down there.
Jesus, we've got to find a way to disable it. I don't want to hear about assembly code all day.
I would say moderate for my needs... but they are quite specialised.
I'm a Statistics masters student so Visual Basic, SPLUS, and a little bit of python are all needed... tho SPLUS is more of a stats program than an actual language...
I also made and update a website for my sports club but thats really that copy pasting code from other sources and using wizards to help build it
I'm a Statistics masters student so Visual Basic, SPLUS, and a little bit of python are all needed... tho SPLUS is more of a stats program than an actual language...
I also made and update a website for my sports club but thats really that copy pasting code from other sources and using wizards to help build it