Obama wants you to learn code

[Platypus]

Yes, he does.

 

[Kev]

How about we teach kids math and how to write a sentence in coherent english before we teach them programming.

 

[BikeJunkie]

Well I would like for Obama to learn math

 

[Platypus]

How about we teach kids math and how to write a sentence in coherent english before we teach them programming .

lol

 

[Kev]

lol

You're trying waaaay too hard there, buddy.

 

[clamum]

It's there, not their. Are you sure you coded that many languages? /grammarnazi

I can't speak for my brah Mr. Alky, but it seems like people will reference a bunch of languages even though they've only written a small program or less in the language, several years back and haven't used it since. A big list of languages isn't that impressive, IMO.

 

[Platypus]

You're trying waaaay too hard there, buddy.

Haha, just pointing out the irony of your post, doesn't take much effort at all really.

 

[alkemyst]

I can't speak for my brah Mr. Alky, but it seems like people will reference a bunch of languages even though they've only written a small program or less in the language, several years back and haven't used it since. A big list of languages isn't that impressive, IMO.

I am not a programmer anymore, but yeah that is 'resume' crap.

It was more or less a joke that started with PASCAL that became an attack.

For PASCAL and BASIC that was 4+ years as a kid mostly. I made little games and things that had no commercial use except to a 12 year old That's aside from magazine games and programs I would type in.

In college I did Assembly too...during that time I really leveraged VBScript since that was a language that was useful to me. I took down a lot of C and C++ took.

Then at a mortgage company, I had to support SCHEME for 8 years which was LISP based for their front end software. I also built their website and online mortgage application with ASP/VB-JavaScript/HTML/CSS/I don't even remember...

I know how to program, the syntax really doesn't matter.

 

[alkemyst]

It's there, not their. Are you sure you coded that many languages? /grammarnazi

One of my typical typos. I probably typed "there" on my phone incorrectly and got spell checked to their.

Feel free to question me on grammar on a paper or document I am writing for anyone. I am very attentive to proper spelling and grammar.

I got published once and I was very young, sadly I can't find it and my English teacher that did it doesn't have anything in her records (this was in the 80's).

 

[Markbnj]

I know how to program, the syntax really doesn't matter.

This is true, but the software ecosystem that exists around a language can take a long time to master, even if the syntax comes pretty easily.

 

[alkemyst]

This is true, but the software ecosystem that exists around a language can take a long time to master, even if the syntax comes pretty easily.

I agree. In my latter life, as more an analyst, I tended to find the breaks in the code with Google and edits.

The entire ecosystem was way beyond my programming. It was at a Fortune 500 level sadly.

 

[redhotiron2004]

I agree. In my latter life, as more an analyst, I tended to find the breaks in the code with Google and edits.

The entire ecosystem was way beyond my programming. It was at a Fortune 500 level sadly.

It's soo big that even a expert developer with years of experience can't master. The trick is not cramming the language but learn with practice and rather then learning every code in the book(which is impossible), search for the particular code/function as you go along or need them during programming. You should be logically sound as to what kind of function you would need to make a program work. Even if you won't know the real command in the begining.