I'm even straying away from here. Too many newbies, other boards like gamedev have like 40,000 users, cboard has like what 6,250? Only a couple hundred post consistently. I feel bad for flashdaddee though, even less. I go and make a post there and it's up for a week before anyone responds, so I ditched that joint.
> so I ditched that joint.
Thanks for that, by the way.
You think a board w/ 40K isn't going to have a ton of newbies?
-Govtcheez
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But there are WAY more people that know what they're doing there. The ratios of newbies to intermediate to advanced never changes. Plus game programming seems to be something that fewer people actually get good at, so having an increased registered list is almost a requirement.You think a board w/ 40K isn't going to have a ton of newbies?
and as you said to me, this is me caringThanks for that, by the way.
and as I said to you before, touchy touchy
>Or at least less posting in programming forums.
I also noticed less postings the last time. Especially in the C board.
>Too many newbies, other boards like gamedev have like 40,000
>users, cboard has like what 6,250?
I agree with Govtcheez, when visiting other boards I notice that also there the majority of visitors are beginners. No problem with that, it is normal for programming boards. I think that the higher the number of visitors, the higher the percentage of them are beginners. The size does not tell about the quality.
>I go and make a post there and it's up for a week before anyone responds
Yes, I also noticed that the larger the board, the more posts and the longer it takes before you get a response. A big advantage of a relative small board as cprog is that it the number of posts every day is surveyable and the chance someone reads your post is much higher so the chance of a quick response is also high.
People who regularly post here only have to read a relative few new postings.
Also, no matter the board size, they all seem to have a salem/hammer/prelude/quzah guru that answers all the questions, so having more experts isn't necessarily a big advantage.
-Govtcheez
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let's see... life is gettin busy, I haven't coded anything in months, and I have a business to start, and 2 websites to try to hold some maintainity (MY own word) on...
yep, I'm suprised I'm here now...
well then i take back what I said, in terms of programming I've gotten most of my help from cprog, in terms of game help i've gotten most of my help from gamedev, but i shouldn't be knocking cprog cuz it's my home and im about to get more programming help.
Yes, the newbies greatly outnumber the intermediate/advanced programmers on this board. I can think of one fix: remove the GD!
The C++ board would probably remove more...
Sure, albeit removing the purpose of this website.
As I see it, the general board hinders most peoples programming skill. Most come here for the programming, then they seep down into the General Discussions board and rot.
They stay here as long as their addiction holds them. After all, even if they're not interested in programming anymore (which a few members fall into) they still have the general board to come to and talk about normal things.
With no general board, people would spend less time on the general board, and more time... ...on the other boards; or, maybe even programming!
It saddens me to see people here with 1000+ posts and still unable to code very well. How can you spend so much time on a website called "cprogramming.com" and still know so little about programming? (Not directed at anyone in particular)
I myself have (tried, and somewhat succeeded) in cutting down on my posting, and increasing the amount of time I code/read/do other stuff.
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The reason most of us dont' go to the C++ board is the questions are, for the most part, mundane. I've spoken with others and they agree that the C++ board is mostly filled with newbie questions. I'm not trying to be a jerk. I go in and I see the same questions over and over again, sometimes there is a new one but I never get there on time, someone else has always answered before me. I haven't posted on the C++ board for a few days because of this. But it's still there for when I need help, and every once in a whlie I get an answer in there before one of the gurus, but until I become more of a guru myself I doubt I'll be able to answer many questions before others.
Most of my problems now lie outside of programming errors, which is good because it shows I've learned programming. Rather they lie in 'external things' such as format layout of files, what is the most efficient way to do this, what is the mathematical formula necessary to do that, etc, etc.
yeah ill stfu now because everyone seems to hate shadow12345 (it's the banana)
The game programming forum over here is simply a disgrace.
(that's why people interested in game programming should go over to my forums!)
Aran, your forums are less active than BMJ's!
>>> the C++ board is mostly filled with newbie questions.
That really can't be much of a suprise. Programming, by it's very nature, is a lifelong learning experience. When people start out, they don't know what to do, or how to find things out, so they ask "newbie" questions on help boards.
With a little more experience, they learn how to RTFM, how to search google, (I mean what keywords they should search for - it comes with practice and experience), and their own level of confidence rises enough for them to try things for themselves without fear of "breaking" things.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity unto the dream.
I usually only post when there have been no answers to the problem on the thread, but seeing as the answers are answered so quickly I hardly ever get a chance.
