Diesel Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 5 years old, huh? Sounds like a good time to start teaching him some Qbasic! Quote
SonicBoomAu Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Well I started when I was about 21 with VB script to proform Admin Tasks then moved on up to VB6 and now VB.net 2003. Most of my knowledge is book based and backing up with course a year or so after started programming. Quote Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
Machaira Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 5 years old' date=' huh? Sounds like a good time to start teaching him some Qbasic![/quote'] Nahhhh, gotta get him up to speed on VB.NET :) Quote Here's what I'm up to.
BobThePenguin Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 wow, I'm amazed at the lack of people in a situation similar to my own. I started programming in college. Liked math and needed some filler courses to take and programming looked interesting (and a way to get employed). Interesting turned into a second major. My school taught in c++ so thats what I did. Some PROLOG for AI stuff and a little LISP for flavor but the vast majority of it was c++. Talk about a rough intro to programming. After the fact I'm kinda happy that they did it that way. After so much time in c++ everything else seems like cake. (well, aside from the class that we had to do assembly in, that blew) Quote
Diesel Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 wow, I'm amazed at the lack of people in a situation similar to my own. Actually Bob, given this environment you are correct. But take a look out in the real world and you'll find you are in the majority. Most of the CS students at my college are taking the major either for it's monetary benefits or because they like playing computer games. Funny enough, the dropout rate for CS at my school is higher than any other major, and most that fail CS move into a telecommunications major. Quote
BobThePenguin Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 Funny enough' date=' the dropout rate for CS at my school is higher than any other major...[/quote'] That doesnt surprise me in the least. CS is hard. No offense to anyone in business school but from what I've seen of it, business classes aren't. Admittedly, physics, chemistry and the like can be hard too but learning CS has an extra layer of "hardness" I think. There is the problem that everyone in the sciences face: figuring out how to get a solution to your problem. But CS has the added "feature" of learning syntax too. Its not hard for me to imagine quitting CS (I considered it many times) especially at 4 in the morning when you discover that the bug youve been trying to figure out for the last 2 hours is actually a misplaced ;. Luckily (I guess) the really hard stuff came once I was too far along to stop. The good side is those errors only happen once (ok, maybe twice ;) ) Quote
neodammer Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 I started programming when I was about 7 when my older cousin introduced me to the wonderful world of BASIC. Quote Enzin Research and Development
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