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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:09 pm

I would love to do programming as a living, though the expectations are too high for my taste, so rather just do it as a hobby. But if I got offered a job as a programmer I'd jump on it.

School style programming sucks though, most schools don't teach programming well. My college's programming teaching methods were crap. We never really learned how to make actual useful programs. All that I did on my own.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:44 pm

I'm making a bowling program right now that lets the user input the values of each bowl, then outputs the total so far, along with the scores for all the previous frames. it sucks...

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Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:46 pm

What language (goalguarder12)?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:58 pm

goalguarder12 wrote: I'm making a bowling program right now that lets the user input the values of each bowl, then outputs the total so far, along with the scores for all the previous frames. it sucks...

OMG do teachers get these ideas off some central site or something? We had to do the exact same thing once in C++. I never realized how complicated of a game that is, when it comes to scoring. Writing the program is not what was hard, it was understanding how the scoring is actually suppose to work.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:46 pm

Jeff wrote: What language (goalguarder12)?

Java.

And yeah Red, it sucks hardcore. I've got a method to calculate strikes and a method to calculate spares, but now i've gotta make a huge method that calculates normal scores and includes the calculate strike and calculate spare method. It's got like 15 separate if statements in it. it's so confusing >.<

then i have to find a way to output all of this like he wants us to. And our last day to work on it in class is tomorrow.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:39 am

goalguarder12 wrote: I could never do it for a living unless maybe it was for video games...

Are you interested more in the artistic side than the programming?

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:52 am

I had a '98 model in the house, and started to play around in the OS and found out that it is basically a DOS GUI. Then I found out some batch scripts picked up programming there, then moved onto some harder stuff like C#, C++, VB, but not fluent in any. I want to major in Software Engineering.

Right now I am lovin' PHP as it comes.

So about 4 years. Not long compared to you guys.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:40 am

Chris Vogel wrote:
goalguarder12 wrote: I could never do it for a living unless maybe it was for video games...

Are you interested more in the artistic side than the programming?

No, but i'd actually know what i was trying to program most of the time and i'd be doing it for something important to me =P
I would L O V E to work for Blizzard and be a programmer. That would be...fantastic...

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:33 am

playin on the macs at schoooool. haha too bad all the other sites i get on are blocked. but i can get on here!

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:26 am

Ewww...Macs...My buddy's mom just got a Mac and he says he likes using it...but i hate Macs...apple key? wtf?! Why can't i just use ctrl or alt??? Fck the apple key. And wtf is with the little bar on the bottom of the screen? that's not how i wanna access my programs. And speaking of programs, gaming? on a Mac? HA!

In my opinion, Macs are good for 2 things: funny commercials, and media.

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Chyse · Post by **Chyse** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:34 pm

This is what i have for my bowling program so far:
[quote=-> import java.util.Scanner;
public class bowling {
   public int[] a;
   public int total;
public int calculateStrike(int f){
   int score = 10;
   int counter = 2;
   int i = f ]</div>

i know, i'm missing comments. but i havent finished the calculateScore method yet. I still have to make a main method where the user inputs each bowl, and the program outputs each frame in a nice, neat way >.<

does this make any sense at all? i'm splitting the game up into individual bowls, 1-21. the array a is which bowl the program is talking about. so a[5] is the fifth bowl. i added the frame array to set the total for frames. So it will calculate the total for the entire frame. So if the first bowl(a[1]) is 4 and the second bowl(a[2]) is 5, it will make the score equal to frame[(1+2)/2], or frame[1].

this is gonna fail horribly. It's due tuesday and today is my last chance to work on it in class...if i dont finish it this weekend i'm just gonna turn it in not finished.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:16 pm

haha i love the mac commercials

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:01 pm

Haha yeah they're great lol.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:14 pm

so how do you get a tiny shirt like that on a squirrel? ive seen my friend try to put boxers on her cat. it doesnt really work.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:48 pm

haha yeah cats don't seem to cooperate with those things. They'll be like "wtf are you trying to do to me?"

I sometimes successfully tie pipe cleaners to my cat's tail though, its funny.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:34 am

<random sports post>
by sports I mean basketball of course....everything else completely bores me aside from chess/backgammon
The trailblazers sucked tonight and they still managed an overtime after being killed on the glass and settling for jump shots. Something horribly wrong being down by 15 points against the Knicks.
I am delighted that they won, but still apalled at the way they played
</random sports post>

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:33 pm

I had a UiL competition today. I did horrid on the computer apps, *not last, bunch of peeps made a 0* one, but I did place 5th in computer science

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:43 pm

I remember winning a web design competition, so I moved from local to regional, but totally blew that one lol. Mind you, I was probalby the only person using notepad and php. Most were using web editors. To me thats cheating.

Ha, results are still online LOL
http://www.skillsontario.com/competitions/...design2004.html

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:07 pm

Web design is a hard racket: Good code requires the left side of the brain, and good design requires the right!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:16 pm

Need to install a Brain Transcoder hyperbridge to enhance web design. It links the left and right brains between the exact right parts configured in the hyberbridge crystal.

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:10 am

I am actually going to be in a web design competition later on, I am working on my template right now, then I will write the scripts. I use dream weaver to code everything, I just like how makes every statement a new color.

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Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:43 pm

Wow, they actually have programming and Web Design competitions? How long are you given?

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Lamez · Post by **Lamez** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:44 pm

Computer Science, is a written test, and I get 45mins to do the test, but I can leave when I am done. It took me around 10mins

This is my first year to do web design.

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Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:30 pm

What are the questions like?

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:06 pm

I am so glad the GIants won the Super Bowl. So so glad.

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