Comments on: Programming and fun…

By: GSH

GSH — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:50:49 +0000

Wow, I went into Aerospace Engineering and my love affair was the Fortran classes. I’m a creating perfectionist and by jamming in some code you could create beautiful solutions in no time via some cold crankbox.

Anybody programming in Fortran yet?

GSH

By: philb

philb — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:45:52 +0000

The draw of the wild frontier, getting into a covered wagon and heading for California.

That is what programming is like for me. It’s the challenge of the unknown. Are we going to meet hostile natives around the next bend? Will it be a beautiful sunrise?

It’s exciting.

By: Brian in Africa

Brian in Africa — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:54:01 +0000

The highpoints of programming are those precious few occassions when you look back at some code you have written and you are amazed by it’s brilliance and simplicity and you wish you had written it. And then you remember, you did.

By: Ashraf

Ashraf — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:21:53 +0000

By profession, programmers and prostitutes are same, as both of them are getting paid for fun! Lol!

By: Ashraf

Ashraf — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:20:29 +0000

By profession, programmers and prostitutes are same, as both of them are getting paid for fun! But the difference si they are placed in deffrent views in society.

By: Tom Hines

Tom Hines — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:56:09 +0000

Programming is fun because I get to daydream all day and get paid for it.

Also, If I’ve done my job correctly, there are certain problems I’ll NEVER have to solve again — just hook up the previous solution.

Also, I can erase my regrets with either overRiding or overWriting.

By: Jonathan Danylko

Jonathan Danylko — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:05:05 +0000

I've always loved programming since an early age of 10/11.

The biggest thing I like about programming is finding out a technique that is so slick and savvy, it completely blows you away when you see it working.

I also followed up to this post here: http://www.dcs-media.com/desdev/Detail.aspx?ArticleId=607

By: Mike Tashker

Mike Tashker — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:56:54 +0000

I love features. I love creating them, I love using them. Remember Mad magazine? You got to turn the pages around to see the jokes the writers had inserted in various places around the magazine. Code’s like that. Not jokes (necessarily), but neat things to ease people’s day. I get that feeling whenever I load up an updated version of an IDE. I get to turn it

upside down to see the good stuff people have done for me. Then I get to make my own good stuff. Love it.

By: Chuck Kinney

Chuck Kinney — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:32:50 +0000

Once you learn the programming language/environment, you get to learn the end-users ‘job’ so you can program effectively to help them.

As you change companies/projects there are always new end-usrs jobs to learn.

IE: I’ve had to (gotten to) learn about the rental car, airline & telephone industries; sections of the military; state & federal governmental activities like facility management, social services, and holding elections.

By: David Krings

David Krings — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:02:59 +0000

For years I dreaded programming. I had to declare tons of stuff and include tons of other stuff and before I got a grip on all that I didn’t have a "Hello World!" on screen and didn’t have any motivation left to go on. Since the days of the C64 were gone where one turns on the machine and can start writing code, the truth was that I hate programming and programming hates me. And then I came across PHP. What a joy! I got text to show up in no time, I could finally make something out of form submissions and the whole world of browser based applications opened up, but not to gobble me up, but to provide me with a nice environment that my non-software-developer brain could understand. Sure, later on I found out the hard way why it is good to declare variables and assign a value to them before using them the first time. I started hitting problems that were solved by applying well-known techniques, I started appreciating IDEs and debuggers. I also learned the hard way why comments and documentation are as important as good code. And with using MySQL I finally could make tools for searching through the collection of all my pictures, videos, and MP3s. The whole experience was ‘the other way around’. I wasn’t bored to death by some unenthusiastic teacher or a horribly written book that spent dozen of hours to explain the framework and the right way to do stuff. Yes, that is important, but it comes with time and it is so much easier understood when one finds out him/herself why it is a good idea. Yes, programming is fun, but way too often is ‘fun’ not part of the curricula of the universities’ Computer Science programs. This is why we have quite a few programmers who are plain miserable and let everyone know about it through their code.