Could an admin please close this thread? All that can be said has been said.
Could an admin please close this thread? All that can be said has been said.
The cost of software maintenance increases with the square of the programmer's creativity. - Robert D. Bliss
Dude, I dare say that at least 3/4s of members here started this way, just saiyan.I don't have a teacher to fully underestand C++ and unlike (probably) any of you here I start from scratch using tutorials from the internet which is extremely difficult
Devoted my life to programming...
I started with an out-of-date computer (given to the family) that came with two books: one on BASIC, one on assembly. No friends, family or aquaintances with any knowledge or interest in programming. And no internet.Originally Posted by GReaper
Within 6 months I had written an assembler and disassembler in BASIC and was programming the computer in assembly language.
To learn, you have to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps. The details cannot be spoonfed piecemeal.
The cost of software maintenance increases with the square of the programmer's creativity. - Robert D. Bliss
I do wonder what kind of career this person is planning if he believes that after ONE day of hard work, he is worthy of a place of supervisor where he will just sit and observe the work of subordinates, evaluating shortcomings and giving valuable advice doing nothing.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
I hope he doesn't find it either. That's my job!
