>>3-san
I recommend you implement a C in Scheme, then a Scheme in C.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 19:13
Age: 19
Preferred language(s): C#, Java
Educational background: 2 years college
Experience (in years): No job experience
Job title (if applicable): N/A
Age:
22 Preferred language(s):
I prefer to solve things in C# if I can, or Python if the situation warrants it. I'm comfortable with SEPPLES if I must use it. There's never a need to use Lisps either, but I can and have. Educational background:
High school dropout. Experience (in years):
Roughly equivalent to 6 years of software development. No professional experience. Job title (if applicable):
Web developer. How did you start programming?
I just did it. What was your first ``real'' program?
Probably a game server emulator.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 19:45
Age: 23
Preferred Languages: Python, C, Haskell, Bash
Educational backgroud: BSc Computer Science, Minor Math (in schooL)
Exp: 4 years computer janitor shit job
Job title: ``Library Technician''
>>8
Well, that looked far uglier than I suspected it would be.
Age: 22 Preferred language(s): I prefer to solve things in C# if I can, or Python if the situation warrants it. I'm comfortable with SEPPLES if I must use it. There's never a need to use Lisps either, but I can and have. Educational background: High school dropout. Experience (in years): Roughly equivalent to 6 years of software development. No professional experience. Job title (if applicable): Web developer. How did you start programming? I just did it. What was your first ``real'' program? Probably a game server emulator.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 19:54
Age: 27
Preferred language(s): C, Python
Educational background: 2 years into BS in CS
Experience (in years): 7
Job title (if applicable): student
How did you start programming? I told my friend I wanted to learn how to hack, and he said "Learn C."
What was your first ``real'' program? smurf based DDoS in C
Age: 25
Preferred language(s): Haskell, C
Educational background: 7 years into Bachelor's in Math
Experience (in years): ?
Job title (if applicable): N/A
How did you start programming? The way god intented, in BASIC on the Apple II
What was your first ``real'' program? A port of a game
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 20:23
Age: around 18
Preferred language(s): C++, C, or C#; I like em all, but it really depends on the task
Educational background: I'm going to be attending college in the fall. I've had no formal instruction.
Experience (in years): 3
Job title (if applicable): private programmer/reverse engineer.
How did you start programming?
I first started programming because I wanted to patch some memory in another process (yeah, bad idea). But after a week or so, I realized that my reason for programming was stupid, and I decided to actually learn for the purpose of getting shit done (whatever the shit may be).
What was your first ``real'' program?
Most of my programs are oriented towards reverse engineering/gamehacking. My last program was basically a specialized packet logger for some shitty MMO.
Age: 18
Preferred language(s): Sepples , C
Educational background: None
Experience (in years): 2
Job title (if applicable): l33t hax0r
How did you start programming? Kongregate AS2 tutorials if actionscript counts as a real language.
What was your first ``real'' program?
A 3D multiplayer collision game where you had to knock the other persons ball off the edge of a platform.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 23:15
Age: 22
Preferred language(s): none
Educational background: BSc CS (completed in 4 years - is it really that difficult to finish a BSc degree in 4 years?)
Experience (in years): 5 years
Job title (if applicable): SW engineer
How did you start programming? QBasic
What was your first ``real'' program? Some sort of web app
Difficult to complete a 4 year degree in 4 years? Methinks you dids't fuck off too much then.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 23:43
Age: 29++
Preferred language(s): Perl, C, Ruby, Bash, Cisco IOS
Educational background: never did finish college
Experience (in years): Was a CAD draftsman, a concrete finisher, a graphic designer, before starting as tier one tech support becoming...
Job title (if applicable): mid-level unix admin (6 years on the job) / network admin
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-07 23:48
>>18
I forgot the format here...
How did you start programming? basic on a trs-80, when it was a new item
What was your first ``real'' program? What is "real", Neo? (I can't freaking remember, and don't really care. I make up shit when needed and don't really think twice about it later.
Age: 18
Preferred language(s): C, Python, Lua, x86 asm (Intel syntax), on-and-off relationship with Scheme
Educational background: university student currently
Experience (in years): Fixed a lot of people's computers (mostly by dual-booting Ubanto), fixed a computer lab and network for an undisclosed organization. I don't know to how many years that adds up.
Job title (if applicable): n/a
How did you start programming? Started programming when I was 7 y/o with Pascal and Logo. Had an awesome Pascal teacher. Learned 8 other languages since then.
What was your first ``real'' program? I can't remember :/. I think the first time I actually felt awesome about my coding skills was when I coded an entire complex 2D labyrinth game with A.I. in Pascal, still unaware of the existence of pointers. It's been a real long time ago, though.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-08 0:22
Age: Twenny-one
Preferred language(s): C (Plan 9 dialect), Limbo, shell, z80 asm
Educational background: Taking a year off after two years of working on a CS BSc. I'm probably going to switch to EE.
Experience (in years): 4
Job title (if applicable): Unemployed, as I just moved.
>>23
Why not? I'm switching because I don't find undergraduate CS to be very challenging
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-08 1:45
Age: 22
Preferred language(s): C, C++, perl and assembly and VHDL for HDL
Educational background: senior year of my EE/CompE degree
Experience (in years): 3ish
Job title (if applicable): student
How did you start programming: Some stupid EE C++ class
What was your first ``real'' program: microcontroller stuff; for non-EE stuff, IRC bot stuff
Age: 22
Preferred language(s): C, Scheme for mental masturbation
Educational background: Electrical & Electronic Engineeering
Experience (in years): 5 years, including university
Job title (if applicable): Embedded Systems Engineer
How did you start programming? fucking around with source code, trying to get Linux From Scratch to work as I wanted it.
What was your first ``real'' program?
Frozen Bubble clone, written in C and SDL.
>>24,
I'm not to whom you're responding, but I'll chime in. Undergraduate CS is indeed hardly challenging. During my freshman year I took all the available Physics, Maths and CS courses. Although vastly interesting, Physics felt brutally unmethodical, and Maths extremely so. CS students are all behind their appropriate mental development ages and seem to have chosen CS due to a total lack of ability to do anything else; they are likely to end up as code monkeys.
Electric and Electronic Engineering strikes a nice balance between Physics, Maths and CS. Any respectable graduate course that has CS as a pre-requisite will accept EEE instead.
You can skip all the undergraduate nonsense that includes people struggling to understand concepts as preposterously simple as variable assignments (x=x+a versus x==x+a), the differences between imperative and recursive programming, &c. and learn how it actually works at transistor level before getting into the really interesting stuff like AIs, Advanced Algorithms, Compilers, Communications and Signal Processing.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-08 4:13
Age: 30
Preferred language(s): FIOC, Scheme/Racket
Educational background: Software engineering, 3 years
Experience (in years): 6 years, including uni
Job title (if applicable): Senior software developer
How did you start programming? QBasic
What was your first ``real'' program? Pacman-roguelike hybrid
Age: 20
Preferred language(s): C, perl, ASM(x86 mostly), e-lisp and some scheme
Educational background: NULL
Experience (in years): 0
Job title (if applicable): male prostitute or slacker
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-08 6:02
Age: 23
Preferred language(s): Ruby
Educational background: Ba. in CS, 3 years
Experience (in years): <1
Job title (if applicable): Software Engineer
How did you start programming? Reverse engineering
What was your first ``real'' program? Snake clone in Open GL
20 < Age < 30
Preferred language(s): python, java, sepples, bash, asm. Actually I don't have preferred langs.
Educational background: 2 years in CS
Experience (in years): 4 years
Job title (if applicable): programmer
How did you start programming? QuakeC
What was your first ``real'' program? Does mod for quake count?
Age: 33
Preferred language: perl, perl and perl
Educational background: Technical High-School (Currently in 3rd semester of Network Engineering)
Experience: 10 years
Job: Programmer/Analyst
How did i start programming?: BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81.
First real program: A drawing program in QBasic (keyboard only no mouse, lol)
Age: 20
Preferred language(s): ANSI-C, python, x86
Educational background: Second year of a bachelor degree in Computational Sciences looking to get a master in Fluid Mechanics
Experience: 1.something years.
Job: Technically N/A, however I do work for a student union in a bar but only get benefits without pay
How did you start programming?: Technically in high school with TI-BASIC if that can be considered programming, first year of university is probably the real answer though (python).
What was your first ``real'' program?: Well I haven't really made anything big, I made a tripcode cracker thing which reads tripcodes on every imageboard front page and runs them versus whatever words are in /usr/share/dict/.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-09 5:20
Age: 29
Preferred language(s): C++, C, C# in that order for general purpose stuff, Lisp/Scheme for DSLs.
Educational background: MSc in CS from UBC (focused on image analysis and artificial vision systems).
Experience (in years): 15 years total, 8 years professionally, another 7 years before that as an amateur/hobbyist and in university.
Job title (if applicable): Senior Software Engineer (I always found such job titles in the software industry to be a joke, as most people don't have real engineering degrees).
How did you start programming?: QBASIC on DOS 5.0, quickly moved on to Pascal, then C and went from there.
What was your first ``real'' program?: On my first day programming with BASIC after deciphering what everything did in a ~15 line BASIC code snippet from a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica on ``Computers'' (I had no formal programming books or access to the Internet at that time), I wrote a character sheet generator for a paper and pencil RPG. On my second day I wrote a text adventure game with a simple RPG style combat system. I didn't know yet about subroutines/functions, so there was a lot of copy-and-paste style programming going on.
Age: 26
Preferred language(s): Python
Educational background: Civil Engineer
Experience (in years): I started programming on PASCAL and C on 2002, but nothing serious, just some exercises from a book i got online, just programming as a hobby
How did you start programming?
Some guy needed a guy who could code to automatize some shit he needed
What was your first ``real'' program?
A program that transformed a "really long" XLS file (+5000 lines) using a set of rules into another XLS file, usually doing it by hand would result in a couple of weeks of hard work, with my program that time got reduced to a couple of minutes (seconds to process, just minutes to give the desired format, the format changes and it is easier to do by hand that to code it)
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 6:40
- 19
- Perl 6, C
- Studying CS
- In programming, I assume? Something around 4-5 years
- Web admin. Yeah, I know. I'm doing this for like 2 hours a month, so it's not that bad
- I found a Pascal tutorial in a gaming magazine
- No idea. Oh, maybe some drawing program in SEEPLES
Age: 20
Preferred language(s): Haskell, Scala, C.
Educational background: Third-year CS undergrad.
Experience (in years): Programming? Eight years or so.
Job title (if applicable): N/A, only done some freelance stuff.
How did you start programming? PHP. :(
What was your first ``real'' program?
What are the criteria? I wrote a few moderately complex web apps before and during high school, but apart from that it was probably a cellular automaton simulator.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 22:30
Age: 15.
Preferred language(s): C, lisp, tcl.
Educational background: '()
Experience (in years): 2
Job title (if applicable): (void *)0
How did you start programming?
One day I had nothing to do, I started learning C.
What was your first ``real'' program?
A ncurses-based filemanager.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-10 23:32
Age: 19
Preferred language(s): C, Python, ASM(x86)
Educational background: None pertaining to programming
Experience (in years): 1
How did you start programming? Trying out programs on my Linux box, and played around with IDLE(Python) for eight hours one day, making simple little calculators and a grammar checker for German.
What was your first ``real'' program? A simple German Grammar checker, first day programming so it was horrible, SO MANY if and elif statements.
Name:
Anonymous2010-10-11 1:30
22
C++, C, bash
Associates in CS, 2 semesters shy of BS in CS
~ 7 years experience due to school, ~ 6 months serious work experience
Software Engineer is what it says, my job is to take a mostly unusable library my company is developing and make it usable
First semester in school, java class, followed by two C++ classes
I wrote a program for managing my anime collection, but its still unfinished. The end goal is for you to be able to use it to manage any form of video media, it would keep track of the order of movies/episodes/specials that it should play and where you are, playing the next one by calling mplayer when you tell it to.
>>56
Thank you for your insight. I, too, believe that cretins bumping a shitty thread with shitty personal information are as detrimental as >>54 frowning upon (even if quite gratuitously) said shitty thread.
Age: 17
Preferred language(s): Java
Educational background: Still in high school.
Experience (in years): 4 years
Job title (if applicable): I contribute to an open-source project that helps people cheat at a game called RuneScape.
How did you start programming? Writing scripts in pascal for SCAR and then moving on to writing scripts in java for RSBot and eventually contributing to the RSBot API.
What was your first ``real'' program? I programmed a program that can program programs.
>>10 Age: 13 Preferred language(s): HTML Educational background: school for the special people Experience (in years): 1 week Job title (if applicable): Web developer. How did you start programming?: I just did it. What was your first ``real'' program?: some boring website nobody is ever going to visit
I have noticed that >>10,62 were the only one who took time to make the questionnaire not look like shit. The rest are probably proportional font users.