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Student vs Basement Dweller

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 20:24

What does /prog/ think about learning on your own without a university education?



  

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 20:26

Terrible!

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 20:26

You'll starve to death that's all.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 20:55

You should already know everything you need to know LONG before you go to uni.

For instance, I wrote an ANSI C compiler in ANSI C when I was 12.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:07

>>4
You must have had cool parents and a great childhood

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:08

>>5
s/cool/nerdy
s/great/lonely

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:25

It's certainly possible. If you can't learn anything outside of educational institutes, then you have two problems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:28

Learning what? Programming? Systems engineering? Algorithms?
What education are you skipping, and where are you skipping to?

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:32

>>8
WTF is systems engineering?

I am learning Programming, specifically Games Programming.  I am trying not to skip any education.  Also algorithms are part of programming so I don't see how you can learn programming without them (same for data structures, best practices, patterns, testing, etc).


Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:43

Games Programming
LOL

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:44

Addendum:

best practices, patterns
LOL

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:46

>>11
LOL

explain yourself fgt

because not using const in certain areas where it helps describe the function is a bad thing to learn

Also RAII is a bad practice learn huh

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 21:51

>>12
What the fuck? I don't need to explain myself. I'm a fucking expert programmer with decades of experience. And who are you? Some snot nosed little kid who thinks he can achieve synergy by reading a book. You know what? I shit on your thread.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 22:02

>>13
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Data Strucutes on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C++-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 22:03

Wow I failed so hard in that post...>>14

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 22:05

Wow I failed so hard in that post...>>15

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 22:19

buy the book "Game Programming For Dummies". i read it and got a job at EA instantly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-04-04 22:39

Basement Dwellers are self taut at a young age, so there brains understand programming more easily.  Students (having no prior knowledge to programming) struggle and don't fully understanding it, thus produces ridiculously crappy code (as seen in windows vista!)

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