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Advice

TwoBabyJedis — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:06:13 GMT

I've been studying C++ for a few months, but still am in the beginning stages. I've decided to pursue my bachelors. There is a nagging question on my mind I must ask. Anyway, the degree is not a BSCS, but a general purpose CIS/business degree. My question... armed with a shiny bachelors degree and some in depth self study of C++ over the next 3 years (Im anticipating on atleast reaching a very solid intermediate level based on my learning curve) am I marketable for a decent paying programming job? Whats are some things I can do to enhance my resume? I have zero work experience in the field and cant leave my current job for helpdesk and such. I got a Network+ certification for the heck of it, but its only worth making into a paper airplane. Thanks for your help. If my post is in the wrong area or annoying, please delete it.

Hi!

Nogmor — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:46:17 GMT

Whats up? Frist time learning C should be interesting. starting a years course in development, should include alot of C, C++, java and suchlikes.

Anyways, this is what I came up with on the first day of C. :D

cya around

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new subsection

Annonymous — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:32 GMT

Just a thought, but I'd like to see a GUI subsection added. This forum already has everything else! Why not a section devoted to GTK+ and GTKMM UI programming?

New laptops with serial ports?

Epy — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:23:18 GMT

I've been given a $1500 budget to spec out a laptop for my new job. The only real requirement I have is that it has a working serial port for programming older PLCs. I don't really trust USB to serial adapters because I've heard about cases where they don't work, don't follow the standard, etc. I read that the PCI card (ExpressCard, PCMCIA) versions provide true RS232 compliance though and are a better alternative.

Anyway, does anyone know of any laptop lines that offer actual serial ports? If not, has anyone had to program chips or PLCs with a serial adapter of some sort and how well did it work?

Thanks

Post-PC Hype: How many of you find it inevitable ?

manasij7479 — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:43:09 GMT

For a significant portion of the last few years, there seems to be a unanimous push to killing off desktops for its own good.
I've not used much of those 'mobile' devices (other than a cheap android phone and an iPad ), but It seems that I'm completely missing the point.
Even putting the programmer/power-user mindset away for a while, I simple can't use them as a "media-consumption" device without serious issues.

Want to enjoy a movie with some friends at your home? ..the small screen can be a PITA.
How about reading an ebook (not all-text) or viewing a website ?.. the panning and zooming becomes cumbersome to me. (When mobile versions are available, they typically make things more difficult or impossible to do in exchange of a simpler interface.)
Writing something feels like playing an old typing tutor game !
Speaking of games, I tried out some free ones. (Much of the enjoyment came from Pokemon FireRed on an emulator, though..).
PEBKAC, PICNIC problems gain new degrees of freedoms with these modern devices.
I'm not into much music, so I don't have opinions about it, but that is the only field such devices seem to shine.

I think all this feels like unifying a toaster and a refrigerator into a single Chernobyl-made device. (can't remember where I heard that analogy.)

Adding to that closed ecosystems, mutually incompatible 'cloud' services and stores, the future looks dim to me.

Charity Race to Benefit Medical Research May 15 - 25th

Adak — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:16:10 GMT

There will be a team race to benefit Folding@Home in it's efforts to learn how to better cure and treat diseases.

Folding@home - HomePage

Eight teams will be competing, and I'd like to invite anyone to come and join us for all or part, of that 10 day race.

This is "the most fun distributed computing project you'll ever run while keeping all your clothes on". < rofl >

Overclockers.com is one of the smaller teams in the race, but we are quite strong, even so (#4 in total team ranking).

All the details:
Race Invitation - Overclockers Forums

It's a blend of two video's, I think:
Fun.: We Are Young ft. Janelle Mon�e [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube

Spartans, What is your Profession? - YouTube

and of course, our head honcho to explain it a bit:
Why Study, Simulate, Use Folding@Home, Vijay? - YouTube

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you'll come and race with us! :)

Curious tornado question

Fira — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:35:25 GMT

What's the strongest tornado that ever picked up someone and thrown him or her or them but he or she or they landed and survived that you or anyone else or both heard of?

I am feeling down

codewriter — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:54:01 GMT

The last month i had a lot of c++ activity.And now i am going back to networking in C programming development. the switch is making me feel down mentally. can anyone give me a tip to feel better ? Thanks

Strange board URL replacement..?

memcpy — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:51:27 GMT

Normally, linking to a site, say, Google, will yield this:
www . google . com -> Google

But trying to link to a certain site yields strange results:
www . gidnetwork.com/b-56.html -> IP Banned - GIDNetwork

Click on the link and you'll see that the title is clearly not what is displayed. Anyone know why the board does this?

Question addressing the c programming language.

errigour — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:05:37 GMT

I am curious if there is a more proper way to address the entire
language of c programming in a conversation instead of saying
c programming.

To those for whom programming is more than hobby, what does your downtime look like?

wildcard_seven — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:42:04 GMT

It seems to me anyway, that if you are in the industry, or trying to break into the industry, learning is a never-ending task. I can only watch a movie or surf the web in my downtime, my brain is too fried to do anything else.

I could be underestimating the ridiculous amount of time that single life affords one. I married early and I've got two young kids. When I do on rare occasion game, I find myself thinking I should just: A. Stare into space or veg out with a movie and save the mental energy. B. Go do some programming.

Am I the only one who feels like if they aren't conserving their mental energy for some programming, or actually programming, they are "falling behind"?

Can anyone get a job with good knwledge of C/C++ only ?

Linked_List — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:21:34 GMT

hey guys. My Question is different than usual Questions asked in this forum.
I want to know that can anyone get a Job if he/she only has a good a knowledge of C/C++ only ?
if Yes, then which are the companies or places where one can apply for the job ?
OR
What kind of jobs are available that only require excellent knowledge of C/C++ to complete the Tasks ?
Thank you.

How can i contact with the admin or moderators?

nat_user — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:14:53 GMT

How can i contact with admin or mod? There is a big problem.

Flame fading away...

GReaper — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:31:13 GMT

Although I've been in these forums for 3 years, my "desire" for programming started more or less 4 years from now. I remember looking with wonder/curiosity at a snippet of code called "Glossomatheia"( Γλωσσομάθεια ) which was just a translated, simplified version of Pascal for high-school education here in Greece( Hellas ). At that time I was attending a computers class and I suddenly, the reason is unclear to me yet, opened the interpreter program for that language and asked the teacher: "How can I write a program with this?!". She demonstrated by typing a tiny program, which I unfortunately don't remember, and when she hit the "Run" button, it actually printed something!! I was intrigued because I couldn't perceive how a few lines of text could actually do something meaningful!!! ( Let me say that THAT class had nothing to do with programming )

Needless to say, after that day I dived into the concept of making programs a.k.a programming. Firstly, I studied the book that accompanied the specific language they were teaching at school. Concurrently I has searching around the web( mind you, I didn't have internet at that time, therefore I had to regularly visit net-cafes ), trying to find information. I firstly stabled upon an interpreter called "Just BASIC", which interpreted a simplified dialect of BASIC. Do you remember the feeling that you had when you looked for the first time to an unfamiliar language? There were a lot of example programs downloaded along, but I COULDN'T OPEN THE HELP FILES! Darn you Windows Vista!!! Anyway, no 24/7 available internet, I started trying to understand this code all by myself. After a lot of trial and error, I started achieving something, even if it was just some puny little programs. But the real tackle with programming was when I started learning C++.

My first encounter with C++ was when I clicked on a link for "C++ Game Programming". I still have the pages! I used to get into a site that I liked, download the pages and take them with me to read them at ease when I got home... Anyway, I started reading the tutorials, writing the code, compiling it, altering it etc( Forgot to say, my first IDE was Dev-C++ ). Then I stuck on the Allegro tutorials that continue after the 11th part I think. A little after that is when I found cprogramming. At first, it was an ordinary site, but as I started reading the tutorials, tips and everything, I knew that there was much knowledge in here. Much of my elementary and deep understanding of C and C++ comes from this site! That's when I registered at the forum and, as any newb, started posting questions on many trivial subjects.

After half a year or so, I started reading more about programming in general. Data structures, UML modeling, optimizations, graphics, computer's theory. Mathematics, calculus, algebra, matrix & 2D/3D/4D math, physics, and what I perform right now, hardware ports & interrupts, x86 assembly while building my very own operating system! o_O
While studying all these, I spontaneously returned to cboard in order to ask for opinions or to solve a big problem. I felt obliged to this site, and of course to many of you members who helped me along the way, therefore I started answering( or rather trying to answer ) to other's questions.

Around 2 years before today, I was trying to write many different programs, small and big. What I really feel ashamed of is that I completed only 3 or 4 of around 50 different projects that I have started. Sometimes I didn't have the necessary knowledge or experience, other times ( in the case of graphics for example ) I didn't have the resources, while sometimes I got bored of a project or had made a fatal design error and had to build everything from scratch again!...

Right now I'm at the 2nd year ( of 4 years ) of my college, which is about "Technology, Computer science and Telecommunications". At first, it was fine. That is, until the programming classes. Please don't think that I exaggerate when I say that from the 6 different programming professors( two for each "lab" and one for each theory ), only one was actually better than me!( C & C++ ) Do you think I was happy for that?! I went there to learn!! Do you know what I felt when I realized that I would learn next to nothing there?! I felt betrayed!!! Believe me that 25% of the time ( mostly at theories ) I argued with the professors, trying to show them the error of their ways! They where making such n00b mistakes, both in programming in general and in C/C++ in particular, that it wasn't funny!! Being with C/C++ for some years, I can't say I have much experience but I undoubtedly have much knowledge on these languages, at the very least. Just as we here correct any answer that we consider wrong, I was doing the same at class. That resulted in many arguments with the professors... Anyway, that's OUR "educational" system, I don't want to trouble you any more with that, I just mentioned it to give you an overview.

Why am I writing all these? you may ask. Well, putting aside that I wanted to get those memories off my chest, I recently noticed that the original "flame", the long & strong love for programming that I had, has started "fading away". All potential projects seem either too easy, too hard or too boring to undertake. I have drop to a "theoretical" state, by only answering questions and still searching for more things to learn, but never practicing anything. I would like to hear( read ) your personal opinion on this. Thanks for reading! :)

Dyslexic XenServer Users Untie!

Elkvis — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:59:11 GMT

forgive the humorous thread title - it was intended to attract attention ;)

I have 5 Citrix XenServer machines in my organization, with approximately 25 virtual machines in all, and I have found that Citrix's XenCenter management program is a great tool, but has no linux, mac, or other OS support. it is windows only. openxencenter is no better, because it freezes or crashes if you look at it sideways.

what I'm hoping to do with this thread is to generate interest in an open-source, cross-platform alternative. possible platforms include Qt or WxWidgets with C++, WinForms with C# (WPF isn't supported on Mono, so that makes WPF non-viable for anything but windows), or some other configuration that I haven't yet considered.