Eddy.

As far as being a wanker :p well, who hasn’t been one?
That’s being hypocrite to yourself to think that to call someone a wanker is an insult :p.. else otherwise you’ve never been a wanker and has been a nerdy lil creature who was afraid of becoming blind :p

More seriously, fifteen years ago, no one wanted to be a geek. I fondly remember my university cohort in France which contained 20 geeks and 100 “tourists” (i.e. students having been channeled to CS because they were not good enough to get what they really wanted to do.)

Fifteen years later, hundred of students with no inclinations or aptitudes towards CS and especially programming (like you in fact) are dying to do Computer Science in order to get a job in the Cybercity. They don’t realize that they’ll have a boring and pathetic life…

So stupid.

I’ve been using git for a few days now and the whole concept of distributed versioning appeals a lot to me. Anyone can fork any project (including the Linux kernel) and get a lot of satisfaction by refactoring or enhancing existing code whether written by you or not.

Don’t you people just has this major turn off once you’ve already figured out a solution to a problem?? its like pffft, i want someone to type it for me, its boring to type it now?

Yes, it happens to me all the time. But, the nature of the job requires that I type the code, at least until such time that voice-recognition software become good enough to handle dictation of code.

Selven, it sounds like you’re about to burn-out. Other than trying to diversify your interests, practise agile coding: write draft code, then refactor, instead of trying to get it right the first time.

As an aside, I’m having more fun refactoring the code for an application that I wrote last year than writing new code. Just finding my own faults and realising how much more I have learnt in that one year is so satisfying.

Eddy.

This does not prevent people from creating fantastic software everywhere.

This implies that creating software does not require mastery of a programming language but rather knowledge of some fundamentals and the willingness to learn.

An interesting question would be whether your 3 years at the University of Mauritius has taught you those fundamentals and increased your appetite for knowledge…

(As for the pic, I chose it because, for me, programming is a human activity. It occurs when one human being describes a process as precisely as possible in a way that another human being can readily comprehend. As such, programming is only tangentially related to computers.)

Besides .. that’ll be foolish to learn everything in a language [according to me], people are not meant to be hard disks, but rather processors.

as for me, if that was the case as above, then i hell don’t know any programming language, but then when i get a problem, i will find a language the fits my solution easily, and uses lesser lines of codes and is much more friendlier to read… [not some brainfck stuffs]

as always, its just… my not so humble opinion i could careless :p

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But many people tend to forget that mastery is elusive.

Eddy.