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I've always been curious about cboard members. Y'know , sometimes when you see guys like <intelligent member name here> you wonder "when did he start learning these stuff?" , "could he be a smart teenager or an experienced old man?" and similar questions.
So i thought of putting some questions here , so we asnwer them briefly and get to kow each others more (technical side) , i'll start :
the questions :
ok i think these are enough0) where are you from ? :
1) How old are you? :
2) How old were you when you started learning a programming language? :
3) What was it ? :
4) What were your motivations? :
5) Do you program as a hobby ? :
6) Whats the most effective way to learn programming in your opinion :
a- Experiencing (without reading books or tutorials).
b- online tutorials.
c- books.
d- courses\lectures
7) When you were in the "learning" level (or if you are currently), how much time do you spend on learning programming daily?
8) How old were you when you made your first program that people loved or your first game that people enjoy? :
9) Do you program\learn depending on your mood , or its something you enjoy doing every day and all the time?
10) If you learn from book(s) , how many pages do you read a day?
11) Do you "get sick" of programming and leave it for a while? how long and how often?
12) When you think that you can help someone in the programming boards , what would you do? :
a- Help them with stuff i know\remember.
b- Try to be %100 sure of your answer before posting either by google , compiling codes or any other way.
c- say whatever i know even if im not so sure.
13) Are you good at network and\or game programming? if not , do you think you will be in the next year?
14) Are you planning to get a programming job?
15) Do you make money out of programming currently? (not talking about jobs)
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my answers are :
0) Where are you from ? : Saudi Arabia
1) How old are you? : 19
2) How old were you when you started learning a programming language? : around 16
3) What was it ? : VB
4) What were your motivations? : hacking and game programming
5) Do you program as a hobby ? : yes
6) Whats the most effective way to learn programming in your opinion :
c- books.
7) When you were in the "learning" level (or if you are currently), how much time do you spend on learning programming daily? from none to 3 hours
8) How old were you when you made your first program that people loved or your first that people enjoy? :
i still didn't
9) Do you program\learn depending on your mood , or its something you enjoy doing every day and all the time?
depending on my mood.
10) If you learn from book(s) , how many pages do you read a day?
if i'm reading an interesting chapter i might finish it all no matter how hard it is. but normally i read from 5-30 pages when i feel like it.
11) Do you "get sick" of programming and leave it for a while? how long and how often?
its like a weekly thing for me. It lasts from couple of hours to 2 weeks.
12) When you think that you can help someone in the programming boards , what would you do? :
b- Try to be %100 sure of your answer before posting either by google , compiling codes or any other way.
13) Are you good at network and\or game programming? if not , do you think you will be in the next year?
not yet - yes
14) Are you planning to get a programming job?
it would be like a dream come true.
15) Do you make money out of programming currently? (not talking about jobs)
no , i'm still not making (or don't spend enough time to make) useful programs.
*EDIT* Fixed a horrible mistake , sorry about that.