I am learning to program in C as a hobby.
What about you? What's your reason, and what language do you use?
This is a multiple choice poll.
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I am learning to program in C as a hobby.
What about you? What's your reason, and what language do you use?
This is a multiple choice poll.
I prefer C++ above all others, but at my current job, I'm using Java, Perl & shell scripts.
Currently the first two... but the third might be the case in the near-to-distant future.
Mostly, I like pressing buttons.
For work i do: PHP, HTML, MySQL, Javascipt and Actionscript.
For fun I play around with Python a little. I also have a Java project I should get back to ASAP. Havent done much with C for a while now, but when a friend of mine gets back from SA he might bring a PIC i can play with - that might give me a reason to go back to it,
1,2,3 for me.
1 and 2 right now but also soon to be 3. I don't really want to go back to school for another degree program but this time its for something I know I enjoy doing every day.
lol why didn't you program earlier?Quote:
why do you program?
It started as a hobby when I was 9, then it became a profession, now its a way of life. A lot of the research I do requires number crunching beyond the capabilites of a human.
I program sometime just for fun, make my brain sharp :D, or to solve daily problem with computers.
Somehow, I'm still young (maybe) and yet, still love to learn anything.
And there is infinite stuff to learn with programming. :D
I'm just doing it as a hobby. C++ has been and is my all-time favorite, ever since I begun programming.
A long (or maybe not so long compared to other people here) time hobby. I'm a big control freak and being able to tell computers what to do is awesome =). I've always wanted to go into computer science, but decided to go for engineering (probably electrical/computer) instead at the very last chance (this year is my freshmen year).
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I started out with HTML/CSS (if you call them programming languages), then naturally javascript (DOM) and PHP
Then I learned a bit of Java, got frustrated, gave up, and took up BASIC instead.
I didn't know about cross-platform implementation of BASIC at that time, so when I switched to Linux, I thought I had to switch to another language.
That's how I finally landed on C/C++, and "really" started programming. Still learning actively. Largest projects just a few thousand lines.
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2,3 for me.
I start at a crisp age of 12, with tada QBASIC!
and then C two years later.
I program so I can get all the ladies.
EDIT: it's mainly 2. I just entered university, and have been programming since I was about 11 or 12.
But the ladies are a big factor.