I'm worried about some of the people wanting to program...
I see way too many posts where people ask for a little direction on a subject, they are given information from someone, and still asked to have their hand held to find where the information is. It's ridiculous....
Programming is about problems solving and research and I see a lot of people who don't even know how to use a freaking search engine to find some information. I now know why there are plenty of crappy freeware programs floating around the web these days.
Sorry, I'm just getting sick of people either asking for their homework to be done for them or asking for information on game libraries or something and not either searching the board first or using google after they've been given some libraries to check out. Are new programmers really getting this lazy?
Re: I'm worried about some of the people wanting to program...
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Originally posted by damonbrinkley
I see way too many posts where people ask for a little direction on a subject, they are given information from someone, and still asked to have their hand held to find where the information is. It's ridiculous....
Programming is about problems solving and research and I see a lot of people who don't even know how to use a freaking search engine to find some information. I now know why there are plenty of crappy freeware programs floating around the web these days.
Sorry, I'm just getting sick of people either asking for their homework to be done for them or asking for information on game libraries or something and not either searching the board first or using google after they've been given some libraries to check out. Are new programmers really getting this lazy?
damonbrinkley,
C/C++ is a very difficult subject to learn. Most grad comp science students have difficulty in languages like c++, and I doubt most of the people asking questions on this board are even close to grad level.
The most important thing is to help, and answer small questions. But like the board rules state, don't write programs for other people.
Anyways, most students are taugth C/C++ because it's the two of the toughtest and most sophisticated programming languages out there, and helps students be adjust to less complex languages like perl and visual basic.
I have a friend that's a product manager, and he's had a lot of difficulty from comp science majors (even those with master degrees).
Sr programmers expect too much from them, and have to take a lot of time out of their schedule to help them learn the fundamentals of programming.
So in other words, don't expect too much from a bunch of students asking questions on a message board.
Re: I'm worried about some of the people wanting to program...
Quote:
Originally posted by damonbrinkley
I see way too many posts where people ask for a little direction on a subject, they are given information from someone, and still asked to have their hand held to find where the information is. It's ridiculous....
Programming is about problems solving and research and I see a lot of people who don't even know how to use a freaking search engine to find some information. I now know why there are plenty of crappy freeware programs floating around the web these days.
Sorry, I'm just getting sick of people either asking for their homework to be done for them or asking for information on game libraries or something and not either searching the board first or using google after they've been given some libraries to check out. Are new programmers really getting this lazy?
How many times have I heard this before? Please put on a helmet before you resume banging your head against this virtual brick wall.