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Where's the Godlike option?
I work with a bunch of straight out of university VB programmers and one FoxPro programmer who hasn't learnt a new language or technology in 6 years.
I always thought I was an average programmer until I met these guys 
Michael
The avalanche has started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote.
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LOL I feel the same way. Where is the god like option? Most of the people out of universties don't know much at all except visual basic. I for one am not even out of highschool and I am way exceeding them. I already have tons of C/C++, weblanguages, and other type of expereince. Including I can make full 3d games in directx by myself. That is what makes me feel even more sad  ..
- LiquidKnight
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Maybe you are very good in what you do. But try writing a Compiler without any knowledge of Computer Theory ( FA's, Regular Expressions, etc...)
Never under - estimate what you can learn in school.
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I have wrote a compiler.. What more do you want me to make?
- LiquidKnight
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What kind of compiler? What sort of features do you support? Why dont you post it on CodeProject, I would be interested in seeing it as and article.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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It don't support many features at all its just a small compiler I made. It is not a "godly" all and mighty compiler. I don't post much on code project at all because I feel my code is being used without me being able to get any credit for it.
- LiquidKnight
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What kind of credit are you looking for?
I think that if you write a good solid piece of code that people can reuse and learn from you will plenty of credit in the comments section of your article.
Besides I posted a full version of tetris here on CP, and I saw links to it in the news for other game programming sites. That made me feel really good.
I dont expect much for the code I give away here on CP, it is basically for people to learn from. The most that I expect is a "thanks" or a "good job".
You should reconsider posting it, I think a lot of people would like to see how a compiler works 
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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What is suppose to be expected from teachers who hasn't never sold a line of its own code?
Thats the regular case I think...
Just three words: void main(void)
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I work with a bunch of straight out of university VB programmers and one FoxPro programmer who hasn't learnt a new language or technology in 6 years.
Be thankful you are with a bunch of guys who are current. Before I changed groups (2 years) only 2 of us (out of 20) had migrated beyond Fortran. To do the "new gui stuff" they used "D".
"I will find a new sig someday."
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Michael P Butler wrote:
Where's the Godlike option?
agreed.
Some time compare your self to a Uni Professor and you might feel that Monothesism is all about you.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign'
Rob Manderson wrote:
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Oy! Remember some of us are lecturers!
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gregs wrote:
Oy! Remember some of us are lecturers!
Well you should be ashamed of yourself if you in anyway teach VB or the likes.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign'
Rob Manderson wrote:
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I always thought I was an average programmer until I met these guys
Ditto on that.
Whenever I do a code review I feel like saying "404! wtf do you think this is going to do in production?"
I know there wouldn't be a response, and that would be my answer.
Patience, my son, patience...
Cheers,
Simon
"The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
animation mechanics in SVG
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I agree with you, but you've got to remember that microsoft invented vb to get the people programming on windows in a cupple of weeks.
This people were programming DOS applications in cobol, pascal, and so on...
They make rate ourself as "above average", and I've got to be thankful.
You've got to be thankful when you see this people consuming your activex and high performance libraries, they let you investigate, write complex code and all that things that make the life wonderful for people who want to get brain tunned on ...
I'm spanish, and all this kind of things you talk about, like that people living university with just vb skills is the same here and I guess all over the computing world.
Just three words: void main(void)
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Every programmer on my team is in his mid-to-late 30s. They each probably have at least 15-20 years of dev experience.
I'm 25, and I wrote my first program when I was 18. (That's not exactly true - I wrote several GWBasic programs in high school  .) Even though I have been working with (and learning from) them for the past 4 years, I still have a way to go before I catch up with them. The "experience factor" is huge, IMHO.
Jon Sagara
Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart.
-- Uncle Buck
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Just when i have a look at the results...
the average seems to be above the average... 
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Thats because the average developer at CodeProject is into self-improvement and has great resources to use and learn from.
I am willing to bet that the average developer at everyones workplace does not effectively use CodeProject to become "above averaage".
Its all relative
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Paul Watt wrote:
Thats because the average developer at CodeProject is into self-improvement and has great resources to use and learn from.
playing the advocatus diaboli:
Or he has a bloated ego and is such an a**hole that he views anyone else as inferior?
And is not able to see how those who run the business laugh about him.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
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Paul Watt wrote:
Thats because the average developer at CodeProject is into self-improvement and has great resources to use and learn from.
good reply Paul.
I believe there are still lots of programmers who have no idea that CP exists.
CP being such a great resource, means that just by knowing of it's existance you are an improved programmer.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign'
Rob Manderson wrote:
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I have always been in to learning as much as I can to be able to anything programatically that I want. I have been developing for 8 years, and I just barely discovered CP's value last year. I have been hooked ever since.
With that being said, I can understand how a developer could visit this site or the other sites that exist and not understand the value that they offer.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Very good observation!!!
That's what brings doubts about the honest... isn't it?
Just three words: void main(void)
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it's one of the things that making me wanna leave every single day.
I'm much better than all of my co-workers (maybe except for one) and it pisses me off. not beacuse they are not as good as I am, but because they don't want to be. I need excelent people around me to have the motivation to get even better.
ahh, this will kill me at the end (or at least make me leave here...)
Noam
Noam Ben Haim
Web Developer
Intel
noam.ben.chaim@intel.com
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What worries me is that you work at Intel. 
Maybe I will by an AMD next time.
Jason Henderson
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
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