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Ninkazu · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: Programming is fun, school isn't

Wow, I never thought programming class would be so completely boring and easy.I'm trapped in a room for 4 hours every morning with a whole bunch of n00bs. So basically I've been programming in QB while my teacher drones on about stuff the others are supposed to learn. (it's a C++ class) anyway, I think I have to get back to "work." I hope getting my major in CS isn't going to be so completely mind numbing.

akOOma · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject:

I know what you feel....
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DrV · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 12:51 am Post subject:

(Long ranty post follows)

I looked at my local college (it's about 1 mile from my front door to the campus) for any computer courses of interest, but (luckily?) they only had Introduction to the Internet and Introduction to Windows. Woo hoo! Like I really want to take those... and now my parents want me to take a programming course next year in high school, giving up my beloved study hall (sleeping time) for Programming Visual Basic... somehow, I think I could probably teach the class better than the teacher. The really sad thing is, one of my friends took it last year and flunked the class. He must be as dumb as rocks or something... while on the subject of computer-clueless friends of mine, I was talking to another friend on the subject of programming. He has downloaded a Python interpreter and written the equivalent of Hello, World, so now he thinks he's some expert computer science major or something, able to talk glibly about any computer-related subject that might come up. So we were talking about my learning C++. He says, "Can you give me C++?". I kind of doubt he even knows the difference between an IDE and a compiler, so I aimed him at a Dev-C++ download. He got it, and started reading online C++ tutorials. This is a very bad thing. He now says insane things; for example, he wants me to work with him writing a game similar to Railroad Tycoon, about which he commented, "Man, do you know how object-oriented that would have to be? You know, all that smoke from the trains and the grass and everything?" I just about knocked him over the head with the nearest blunt object, but I was too busy trying not to laugh out loud and puke my guts out at the same time.

Okay, got that out of the ol' system... :P
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Ninkazu · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:07 am Post subject:

Wow, he has a very severe case of n00b syndrome. I had that once myself on the old disc.server DarkBoard. I'm better now :)

DrunkenCoder · Demon Hunter Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 559

What I stall can't understand is why you're coding QB in a C++ class... why not explore C++ instead?
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Ninkazu · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 4:39 pm Post subject:

Because I can't really code much of anything without a graphics editor (not available) for OpenGL (since DirectX isn't on here) and also I can't do any cool 3D things without a modeling program (also some uh... modeling TALENT) but in QB, I can do little loopity deals that are easy and fun.

Example (not my code)