Learning to program - slowly

[GSH]

Good read: http://norvig.com/21-days.html .

-- GSH

[Red Devil]

been programming for years and i'm still learning

[MrTwosheds]

My first (and only) experiment in programming was in basic, while performing some particularly dull software tests, I read the help file, and slowly made a small program that was much like that old windows 1.3 screen saver, the one that bounces white lines around the screen, except my one was in colour and unlike the windows one it did not repeat itself. My software writer colleague was dead impressed with it! and said I should learn to program properly. Emboldened by this I got a book on c++ and found it was very uncomfortable to sleep on It seems that reading about programming is not nearly as much fun as actually doing it is. The books changed my mind about wanting to learn programming, and were written by people who seemed to speak a different English language to me. I guess I just lacked the vocabulary required to learn it that way.
Maybe someone could make a fortune with the "Learn To Program in 24 hours by Pictures book"

[Josiah]

strange, read that article a good while back, and still am horrible at the stuff... :/

[Steeveeo]

From: Abstruse Goose

[Red Spot]

been programming for years and i'm still learning

I have that with living

[AcneVulgaris]

I don't know if I'm learning, but any code I wrote more than a year ago looks like the random keyboard smashings of a deranged lemur.

[Red Devil]

heh, mine still do.

i think that the single most important thing i have ever learned about programming (or anything, really) is that the more i learn, the more i need to learn more.

or, in other words, the more i learn, the less i know.

[Red Spot]

It is one of the reasons I wont go back to code I done too long ago. I am more busy recoding old code than I would be doing it all over again
Not saying I am much of programmer but I tend to aim for perfection, which I never seem to achieve

[Zenophas]

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From: Abstruse Goose

Seems like a serious waste of time.

I'd obviously rather go to an orgy.

[Iron_Maiden]

Just to change the subject of the previous post, I like potatoes.

[AcneVulgaris]

It is one of the reasons I wont go back to code I done too long ago. I am more busy recoding old code than I would be doing it all over again
Not saying I am much of programmer but I tend to aim for perfection, which I never seem to achieve

Perfection is at least mathematically possible in programming, which is more than you can say for a lot of disciplines.

Someday I will write a program that writes perfect programs.

[MrTwosheds]

How about just a little one that sits in addon, pretending to be mire22_4.wav, but when that file is called it selects another tune from a playlist...

[Nielk1]

Someday I will write a program that writes perfect programs.

At which point the singularity will occur and the future will happen so rapidly, we have no way to truly predict it. Possibilities though not absolute include death by Grey goo, dieing of radiation, our benevolent robot overlords killing us all, or protecting us from ourselves till we die off after years of negative net progress.

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From: Abstruse Goose

I am somewhere between Day 698 and 3648. Can't wait till I get to quantum gravity and can make a portable offset point gravity generation device to battle evil in a manner normally reserved for the telekinetic.

[GSH]

A good 'review' of Microsoft's new game. And the achievements.

-- GSH