Originally Posted by
EVOEx
But do you, Dante, have the experience to be an actual coder in a valid company? Who knows? I've never seen any of your coding. So there's no way I can possibly tell. And even when you show code it begs questions like; did you use any tutorials to write it, did you copy anything from the web, and how long did it take you to write.
Well, to be honest I do read a lot and often use what I've read in pratice, but the reason I started programming was mainly because I dont like being dependent of something to do something... For example: many times I've seen ppl talking about what they did, when they would never be able to do it without the program they used... And who was the real responsable for their "deeds"? The one who made the program... It just would not feel right to me to take credit for something that wasnt me the one who did.
This is the same reason that makes me liking C++ so much, and even the reason that made me learn enough english to write, read and understand ppl talking... Years ago when I first tried to program it was in Visual Basic... But I hated the fact that Visual Basic was so "IDE dependent"... I made many programs using vb, but I really didnt felt that was me the one who did it(as I said before; dependent of a program), even though I avoided using the visual interface the more I could... In the end, I always wanted to have control over what I was doing, and that led me to C++...
Many times what I like to read and understand are things that people say that are useless today... Like low level programming, writing a program without any help(like IDE)... I know that IDEs are a great help, yes, but I always seek to know what is going on behind the scenes... I wanna know how a function does something in particular, not what it does... I dont know assembly yet, but I'll give it a try sonner or latter...
What I talked until now was all about how I treat things, not my actual "level"... But lets say that I can express my toughts in C++, and always was able to make what I wanted... if I cant work as a programmer yet, I think sonner or latter I'll be able to... What made me coming here and asking this question was just because many people that I know always say that studing alone is useless and that without some certificate I'll never get anywhere... I've heard things like that for more than 3 years now, but recently I thought "Will I ever get anywhere, or is it all useless?"...
I must confess that in the beggining I did not intended to work as a programmer, but after so much time spent programming I cant really imagine working as anything else...
Can someone say what I should know before trying to work as a programmer? Is C/C++ enough? This way I would know if I already have what it takes, or if I dont know something yet, then I'll know what I need to know.