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

Yay for you!
We never got anything of the sort in C++. I managed to pull most things off, but one project never did work, and eventually I handed it in with a note that basically said "Sorry, this doesn't work," and of course got a 55 on it and pulled my whole grade down. For some reason I don't program very well after about 4am...

Well I program very well befor 4am and not so grate after... I am actuly a waking hours programmer.

More power to you!
I tend to be much more of a start it at the last possible minute and work on it all night until I drop from insanity. Than again, I don't actually like programming but it just gets thrust upon me.

Well I dont actuly like programing as such just the fact that when you work out somthing in programing all by yourself. Its even more good whe its somthing not coverd by the lecturur yet.

My problem is more with debugging than anything else. If I can actually figure out what I'm doing then writing it he first time isn't bad, but once things don't work I tend to get really mad at it.

Well debugging is the bane of everyones exsitance its like editing a report or essay, you know your grammer is wrong but you don't know exactly how.

But the difference I think is that seeing one tiny error in your program, say whether you load #variablename or just variablename into a register, isn't at all natural to me whereas looking at a paper and seeing that word is worng, that word is wrong, and that sentence is ungrammatical is. So when I can't see things right off I get unbearably frustrated.

err... ok then.... I am not sure I know what you mean.

Hmm, basically you're right only I don't really have trouble with grammar but debugging is definitely the bane of my existence. I have the tendency to do things that are so incredibly stupid that you don't even think to look for them, because why would you have done that wrong? So I spend two hours checking over everything to find a bug and the problem turns out to be something at the very beginning that no one could possibly forget to put in.

Yeah that happens all the time with programing lanswages like Pascal where you only have one file for all your functions (its not OO so it has "records" instead).

I'm afraid I've never really done anything with that. I don't actually know the difference between OO and non-OO, I just know that there is one. I think I'm a bad geek.

Well I will be making apoint of the difrence in my next guide Entry "Programing in anything for anyone" I think it is.
Basicly OO is a programing laguage that uses classes and objects to create objects to do stuff like functions. It makes doing certine things a hole lot easier and other things not so easy. Its a lot harder to understand if you have ever programed in C++ which makes a mokery of the hole deal as far as I am concerned. If you really wan't to have a real OO language go to Java. It's far eaiser to use than C++ and it doesnot have any nasty pointers you have to worry about.
A geek isnot nessasarily someone who is obsesed with computers. It can be anyone who is obsesed with any subject area, ie a Band Geeks ("This one time at band camp"), a Sports Geeks (not someone who is a fanatical sports person but can tel you who one the Derby in 1923), Computer Geeks ("Sunlight! arggh horrible Sunlight!"), Hackers and Scipt Kiddies (not to be mistook for computer geeks, these guys are those people who have been computer geeks and gorn out the other side!), Gamers (this is a extreemly large geek area, eveyone from Role Play Gamers to guys who do compuetr gameing fenaticly), the collectors (people who collect sometimes starge things, like toilet seat covers, or teeth), and of course the Green Thumbs (people who are real fenatical about gardening). And I think your a perfectly good geek.. if thats a compliment, I sure intent it as one .

Thanks.
I think I'm just a bad computer geek. I'm a decent electronics/band geek, though. (What a combination) I do remember classes and such, but never got as far as pointers although I knew people in the next class of programming who complained about them. Now I just do assembly language which doesn't seem to have anything fancy included in it at all.

I can't stand assmebly language, give me java any day. I think that if I am going to become a programer in anything is gotta be java.

What I really like is the hardware part, but you can't really do that without doing at least a bit of assembly language, kicking and screaming in my case of course, but that might just be me.

Nah it happend with anything in programing. You always have a screeming and/or kicking fit.

True, but I usually start screaming before I even start programming. Takes me a little bit longer to start kicking things, fortunately.

Well in truth I prefer provuse insulting of the programing language, then resort to abusing the application and making threats of de-installing, then and only then do I resort to full blown gutrotous vilolence.

I tend to go in more for yelling/lecturing/cajoling. Something along the lines of "No, you're stupid. You really do want to compile, you know you do. Come on, all you have to do is compile. See this window, where it should say compiling:exit? Yeah, there you go...NO! You're stupid!"

Yup that sounds like me and blue-j, which is inevitly stupid.