Poll: Your programming experience

Elsarild

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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.
 

Annoying Turd

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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!
 

GrandmaFunk

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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.
 

BGH122

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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.


MetalMagpie said:
ewhac said:
The poll omits entries for device driver and kernel programming.
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.

Nice to see you have internet down there. ;)
THEY 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.
 

Simmo8591

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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
 

Ruag

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I did some microwave when I was a student. But now I've got someone else taking care of this stuff.
 

Destal

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I work full time as a programmer. I've worked in C#, Java, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. I've had the pleasure of working on a lot of different projects in my career thus far.
 

Aurora Firestorm

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I'm an electrical/hardware type, not a software type, but I do know some Java, C, and Python. I can at least program basic stuff in them, but nowhere near enough to do things like wireless, or dick around with pointers in crazy ways, or whatever. I can also program an FPGA in Verilog, for the geeks who know The Other Firmware Platform (i.e. not microcontrollers) -- better than I can program a computer, at least.

Oh yeah! Anyone out there know Scheme? I took a class in that. Bonus points if you actually went to the university I did and took the same class. (Solidarity!)
 

Gormers1

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Im studying java and C at my uni, but Im unsure if its really my thing unfortunately.
 

batterj2

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Been working full time as a programmer for the past 6 years - see http://www.jamesbattersby.com/about for what languages.

Working on Android at the moment - never known fragmentation like it....
 

TPiddy

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Came up with classic ASP, VB6 and .NET 1.1.... made more money in Flash, so worked my way up to AS3, OO, Flex, MVC and IOC, and now I'm getting back into C# .NET and Java. I do this for a living as well.
 

The_Lost_King

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I'm still learning and taking classes I know basic programs. Although making the program make an isosceles triangle has escaped me ugh. I am thinking about getting a job in programming though. Once i learn more that is, because if I can't make and isosceles triangle i don't think I can make a game.
 

Stilkon

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I'd really like to learn how to, but I honestly don't know how to start. I've tinkered with Python, and even managed to buy some books on it, but whenever I read it I can't get past the incomprehensible jargon. I took a class last year in high school, and it taught me some basic concepts, but it was very limited, and not dealing with abstract concepts that are present in professional programming. Like I said, I'd love to learn, but I can't find anything that's truly entry level.
 

Dogstile

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MetalMagpie said:
ewhac said:
The poll omits entries for device driver and kernel programming.
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.

Nice to see you have internet down there. ;)
Oh, tell me about it. I'm currently studying this and well. They make you go into the caves. Its dark, the food sucks and the internet is on dial up.

Yes, I just described hell.
 

The Last Nomad

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I've been learning java for almost 2 years now in university. Although most of the actual java learning took place in first year, and I've done some HTML and XML if that counts, but I would rather it didn't because I hate it and I would like people to agree with me so other people would stop using it. But I would say I'm much better than the average person at programming, but worse than the average programmer.

EDIT: forgot to mention the things I've done that I'm proud of... but there isn't really anything there... except for maybe the more difficult lab questions in college. I would like to do some extra curricular stuff but I'm just far too lazy. Although I've made a couple of simple games with a program that uses java-like language in bits. I'll hopefully get back to that in the summer.
 

triggrhappy94

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Well I have a pretty good understanding of Basic. I used it to teach my graphing calculator a mock CMD.
I know only a couple commands for CMD, like 'shutdown -i ENTER FRIEND'S IP -c "I win" ' and some other things.
I have a basic understanding of HTML too (thanks to W3 Schools)
I'm learning Java write now (TheNewBoston on youtube, good channel for tutorials). I can do all kinds of loops, if/then/else, and arrays.
My eventual goal is to start programming apps and games.
 

Cowabungaa

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Well, four years ago I had to learn (Bio)Python and Linux coding, and that just made me go


And now, in my new course, I have to learn HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript. And I'll have shit like Flash and some other programming shit to look forward to in my second year. And I already can't get HTML into my head, and that ain't even that hard.

Gods I hate programming with a fiery passion. I just...can't imagine anyone liking this.
 

Twilight_guy

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Computer Science major. Didn't program single thing until I got into college. I now know Python, Java, C#, C, C++, some ActionScript, UnrealScript, and some general Assembly. Recent I did a project for class that was about 2500 lines of code to make a text based adventure game and was in a team that is a finalist in this year's Imagine Cup. I still feel like an idiot 90% of the time in class for my lack of knowledge though. So much further to go.