h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cool, what are you studying, if I may ask?

ofcourse you know this explains it, why this forum is a nice place. Students don't become truely jaded again until finishing

Oh well, maybe I'll *never* be jaded then...

Im studying I.T. Della... and Im almost half way there, so fingers crossed... or maybe and a bit of and a bit less ?

Or maybe less time on hootoo.... nah! forget I said that!

six7's

Is there a specific area of IT that you're studying six7's?

I'm a programmer myself, though I get to write very little code in my current job.

yeah *nudge* come on *nudge* *nudge* tell us tell us

we'll buy you if you tell us

Hi Sir EvilRoy! (Hello World!)

What do you use? and what for?

My course is quite broad for the first 2 years... and I *think* I'll focus on the human/computer interface side of things in my 3rd

Done a bit of programming - C, Java and VB so far. The emphasis has been on the fundamentals of each type of environment... procedural/DOS'ish (<----- new word?? ), OO and GUI rather than simply syntax...

six7's

I don't think we really need to coerce six7's into telling us by offering , but if it'll help......

six7's you wouldn't have started the first year with CBC and moved on to dipBC or branched to BCS would you? huh would you?

It's just that what you describe sounds very familiar

No Apparaition.... similar but different... hmmmm do I know you?

It sounds like you know something.....

six7's

I came over all moulder and scully for a moment

I work as a tech for a place that teaches CBC DipBC BCS NDBC amongst others (shouldn't let too much slip or I'll start finding bugs in cubicle

My school has a BIT instead of a BCS.... and being the fool that I am I kidded myself that I could do it!

But time is flying... and so far I am too (just), hope I don't crash!

The place I work for just started offering BCS this year but not all of it yet. I've been helping a tutor prepare the end user tools module. Depending on what you've done before it could be an easy way to get credits.

Urgh!!! Acronyms.... I think I chose the wrong profession because I HATE acronyms and here I am surrounded by them every day. The only one I like is PCMCIA. I can't remember what it actually stands for, but a friend of mine said it was "People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms" and that's what I remember it as.

As to what I use/do....

The software we sell is written in C.
For validation and testing (and mucking around) I use C (obviously), VB, Delphi, our own language and a little Perl.

It's hard to be more specific as I'm at work at the moment and don't have much time to post.

Say NO to TLA's!

But (almost) seriously... the misuse of acronyms is something I find really annoying and very offputting, especially in text books...

Too many *authors* (hah!) seem to assume that their readers have either read every page or that the acronyms are so universal that writing out three words in full is deemed unnecessary.

six7's
CATFLAP
Campaign Against Three and Four Letter Acronym Proliferation

If you thing that's bad. Back when I was a student (In the computing darkages when windows 3.11 seemed great, like digital watches)

I had a sadistic tutor that gave us tests in Acronyms!!!

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So you were a student between 2.25 and 2.27pm on that Autumnal day in 1992 huh?

lol, I should have said still seemed great and people were laughing at the shifting release dates of win95

Oh and sir Evil I'm sticking the PCMCIA explanation to the outside of my fabric covered box.

You guys, have fun with yr jargon! (I am assuming you are all males, for some reason.)

Jargon is everywhere, but. Here are some acronyms. Any idea what they mean?

TTT

SRV

PSA.

Answers in next post...(Hint, none of them is connected with IT..)

Well.... SRV is Stevie Ray Vaughan, for sure.