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Comp Sci

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:15

Do not get a Comp Sci fag confused with an engineer fag.

Comp sci fags are generally retards. The field is 90% filled with people who were all "should I take business or computers? There's money in computers, i'll do comp sci!" and then they run out and buy their first PC, and ask people "what programming language should I learn?"

PHP gives newbies the advantage of instant gratification, and the techniques are compatible with going to C.

Learning C involves a month in the console making things that only they can see. Text based Tic Tac Toe. Inventory management. Press 1 to continue. How fun is that? You can go backwards from PHP to C, and many do.

The real "computer science" folk already hacked on their computer for so long that by the time they get to college, most of the shit in CS is boring -- why is it boring? Because the other 90% are bringing down the IQ of the classes, forcing the profs to cater to them, lest they lose their department.

People who want to know how to program FIGURE IT THE FUCK OUT because there are volumes and volumes written about it on the internet.

And php ugly? If you want ugly, compare PHP to ASP. ASP usually involves goat sacrifice to get anything to happen correctly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:19

Forget "learning" a particular language. Focus on learning the concepts and algorithms that apply to programming in general. Languages come and go, whatever you learn today will be replaced by something else in a couple years. I've been programming professionally for over 20 years. I've used a lot of languages over that time period, but the algorithms and concepts are applicable regardless. I can pick up a new language now in a few days.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:19

In all fairness, the whole X vs Y debate is completely useless.
Anyone who's even remotely experienced in programming will know that every language/toolset has it's strength's and it's weaknesses.

Limiting yourself to just one of them is the biggest mistake you can make. The right tool for the right job and all that.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:19

Sounds like *someone* wasted their money on a JavaSchool...

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:20

C# has far more respect than Java among "real" programmers who have been around longer.

Personally, I feel that Java promotes bad programming (as evidence, I present most java apps ever written). they're generally slow, memory pigs, and the executable file size is somehow far too large.

One of the more useful languages for new people to pick up is PHP. It's a C language, so it helps with C and JavaScript, you can create solutions that work in a browser (so you don't have cross platform problems, and no one really has to download and install them).

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:27

If you compare C# and Java, C# will be more preferred, but there's so many more languages out there, some with much more powerful abstraction facilities than C# or Java.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:31

This thread feels like copypasta

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:33

>>5
6/10

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 11:40

There should be no reason to be bored with your classes if you're attending a proper uni. If you find them below your level, just start attending classes for the higher years.
Read thesises and attend Ph.D. defenses if they're public.
And use your uni's subscriptions to read research papers until your brain fries. No one know so much CS that the shit in it is "boring", but some people are too apathetic to find the good stuff unless it's spoonfed to them.

>>7
It feels like two copypastas.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 12:12

>>9
thesises
lol'd

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 12:44

>>10
Sorry, my Latin is a bit rusty. I meant to write thestes, of course.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 13:28

testes

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 13:38

sage

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 14:11

>>13

Sage is neutral, not negative.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 14:11

>>11
thestes
You did know that your post would trigger >>12-kun's response, didn't you.

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 14:54

>>15
How do you know we aren't the same person?

Name: Anonymous 2009-09-12 17:32

Hello, Kenneth.

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