Topic: I really don't know what to make of programming anymore - page 2. (Read 4170 times)
As the saying goes, practise ,practise, practise.
lol I dunno, I guess I'm just messing around at the moment now, I'm certainly more art oriented in the thought process and prefer doing stuff with my hands.
First of all, understand that everyone faces challenges while learning programming, and if you don't have much experience & aren't learning it in a great way then it can be pretty hard.
Secondly, not everyone is due to be a programmer.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/programming-love-it-or-leave-it.html
That doesn't mean you shouldn't learn programming. It means that if you've tried your best, but still can't grasp basic concepts, or if you're feeling especially frustrated *constantly*, then maybe it's time to reconsider. Of course, most likely you'll look back at this thread in a few months and call yourself a noob
Secondly, not everyone is due to be a programmer.
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I mean this in the nicest possible way, but not everyone should be a programmer. How often have you wished that a certain coworker of yours would suddenly have an epiphany one day and decide that this whole software engineering thing just isn't working out for them? How do you tell someone that the quality of their work is terrible and they'll never be good at their job -- so much so that they should literally quit and pursue a new career? I've wanted to many times, but I never had the guts.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/programming-love-it-or-leave-it.html
That doesn't mean you shouldn't learn programming. It means that if you've tried your best, but still can't grasp basic concepts, or if you're feeling especially frustrated *constantly*, then maybe it's time to reconsider. Of course, most likely you'll look back at this thread in a few months and call yourself a noob
I needed a reason in order to enjoy learning a language. Once it had that, I could work on making small bits of code do what I needed them to. It's far more fun learning to code if you can immediately apply it to your own needs.
Even if you know how to program, you might not find it as enjoyable as learning it 
Line 1: ERROR statement doesn't make sense fool!
Even if you know how to program, you might not find it as enjoyable as learning it
I think C language is a big systematic hack and C++ is a hack around the hack.
So awhile ago I posted about learning C++ as you guys know, very basic right now and I'm just fiddling around with tutorial code to see what it all does, I don't know how you all work but for some reason when I actually try to 'learn' the code and what the functions mean my brain falls apart and screams at me, but if I just mess around and tinker with it I almost find it fun and I'll be honest I think I'm learning better that way and I just use code for reference, kind of like how you use photo's in art for reference because you know the poses and lighting etc. will be correct.
I keep getting in this love/hate thing with programming, I love how logical it is but equally I find myself swearing at it because of that since I'm having to find the correct order everything goes and the commands. Do you guys get this way with it or am I perhaps going about learning the code in a wrong way? I keep finding myself going back to programming because I have nothing better to do while I sort out my artwork and I don't think I can be bothered waiting for the Games Industry to churn out something awesome for me to play any time soon.
Edit: And oh shit! That's exactly what I'm talking about, I'm even seeing typos in my written stuff now on the code LOL
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#include
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
int level;
cout<<"Please type what level you want to be: ",
cin>>level;
cin.ignore();
if (level < 25) {
cout<<"You aren't that powerful
\n";
}
else{
cout<<"You're going to be able to slay a dragon!\n";
}
cin.get();
}
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
int level;
cout<<"Please type what level you want to be: ",
cin>>level;
cin.ignore();
if (level < 25) {
cout<<"You aren't that powerful
\n";}
else{
cout<<"You're going to be able to slay a dragon!\n";
}
cin.get();
}
I keep getting in this love/hate thing with programming, I love how logical it is but equally I find myself swearing at it because of that since I'm having to find the correct order everything goes and the commands. Do you guys get this way with it or am I perhaps going about learning the code in a wrong way?
I keep finding myself going back to programming because I have nothing better to do while I sort out my artwork and I don't think I can be bothered waiting for the Games Industry to churn out something awesome for me to play any time soon.Edit: And oh shit! That's exactly what I'm talking about, I'm even seeing typos in my written stuff now on the code LOL
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