No. I guess you're learning with Java, Python or C#?
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Anonymous2012-06-22 5:30
>>2
Java is what my uni teaches, C/C++ is coming up soon though.
I'm learned Common Lisp in my free time and that has proven to extend my tiny love for programming, but i still end up wondering what to actually do that's productive and not boring mindless projects.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 5:35
yes its normal. in fact as soon as scientist perfect quantum computers, programming languages, alrogrithms, everything involved with computer science will be made obsolete as...oh say auto workers, or any other job that has been made obsolete in 1st world nations. enjoy programming while it lasts, its a passing fad
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Anonymous2012-06-22 5:48
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Implementing solutions to information problems are a passing fad?
I feel mostly the same way. My satisfaction with programming seems to be directly related to my level of productivity. If I can get something done in ten lines and never have to think about it again, that feels pretty good. If I have to periodically investigate an inexplicable crash, over and over again, for an unbounded amount of time, I just want to drop everything on the floor and walk away from the scene.
Programming is 99% boring, but so is every other job. Enjoy your real world, young adult.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 6:44
>>6
>a compiler, a miniature operating system or a 3D video game
Or mix all three by implementing your miniature operating system in a language of your own design and implementation, and then create a 3D GUI like the one in Jurassic Park.
>>5 Implementing solutions to information problems are a passing fad?
yes it is. look at a sylybus for any CS curriculum, it is all boilerplate, data structures, algorithms, everything required to squeeze performance through the von neuman bottleneck. but quantum computers will kill all this sillyness
what will it require to squeeze some intelligence through your neocortex?
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Anonymous2012-06-22 7:21
>>10
and then there will be other bottlenecks, processing power is never enough for the processing needs
>>1
switch to computer or electrical engineering and if you don't like it the first year give up and find something else you find more enjoyable
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Anonymous2012-06-22 7:37
I think it depends on what motivation you have. Writing code for programs you have absolutely no interest in isn't fun for anybody. Find something you're interested in, or if you can't, consider trying something other than programming.
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Anonymous2012-06-22 7:50
Why do you think we spend all our time shit posting on /prog/?
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Anonymous2012-06-22 8:14
>>10
The purpose for boilerplate code, data structures, algorithms and other designs is because they work; people must learn the basics before handling the harder topics. Quantum computing will not be part of the public market for decades to come and even then, it only solves certain classes of problems. Programmers will never run out of work to do for as long as society relies on computers and skill in this craft remains constant WRT programmers to non-programmers.
Oh well, it tends to be boring. Quite often. Still, even after yu graduate, no one forces you to program. If you pay attention, you can go to be a sysadmin or whatever. Hell, I personally plan to work as a progger for a maximum of 10 years after I graduate, after that - fuck the shit, I'm joining the army.
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Anonymous2012-06-24 18:50
>>22 I'm joining the army.
You have no chance against mighty Arabian army. Iran will soon kick your fat Jewish ass (or maybe that is your ugly face, hymie?). Death to the Yids! Sink Israel in Jewish blood!
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Anonymous2012-06-24 19:55
Then change your major. Otherwise you're doomed to become like 99% of the population and despise you're job after a few years. Then live out a miserable existence as a fat fuck that hates they're life.
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I've done a few porn gigs. I'd much rather spend the rest of my life writing Java. Porn may just be the worst job in the world.
Only teenage boys think a job in porn is a great idea.
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Anonymous2012-06-24 20:12
Programming is only boring if you don't "get it." Being able to program is being able to make the universe do what you want it to do.