all the coders in da house say YEAH!!

Are you kidding? I have trouble with decoder rings, much less programming! Despite my attempts, T21 + coding = .

t21: it says "remember to drink your ovaltine"

hooray for c++, obj-c, cocoa, php, javascript, mysql, realbasic, and gibberish i write on napkins.

so i guess i'm a coder.

odd...i was JUST in class with the guy who wrote the oreilly cocoa book. he teaches guitar now.

and i have the allaire logo on my arm. they used to ink you for free at comdex until they were bought by MM.

[Edited on Nov 05, 2002 by earplug]

I do alot of web designing, so I know html, xml, flash, and pretty much anything that the client askes for.. i'm a quick learner. Sorry no hardcore coding here.. dang.. i should learn though.

I'm an electronics nerd... I've interested in making artificial intelligence systems using neural networks and other electronic architectures, with minimal or even no actual programming work. I tinker around with robots every now and again, although I haven't done so lately... don't know why... I just love creating things, and the thought of those creations learning and growing on their own... i don't know. It's just cool. (and I'm starting to get into a programming language called lisp, because it's supposedly good for programs that involve "self programming" and that sort of thing... but I'll see about that.... is there anybody here with experience using lisp?)

I just do HTML and CSS, with bits and pieces of basic JavaScript. Nothing hardcore, really. Maybe a bit of Touring and BASIC. :p

But I am an HTML guru! Mwruar!

Ok, not really. But I play one on TV. Or, rather, I played one in Northwestern Ontario classroom.

Currently I'm pursuing an associate's in CIS with an emphasis on VB/Java programming. I've dabbled in both, and C/C++ as well, although the latter almost made my head explode.

If I were still in school and wanted to do something interesting with my degree, I'd probably aim for getting a job with a company like Google or one in the gaming sector, as L said. Both areas are doing some awfully interesting things... Games constantly stress the limits of hardware with reality modelling, rendering, and AI, while Google stresses parallel architecture design and implementation as well as testing whatever blood sacrifice they're using to invoke such diligent and accurate daemons to service my queries. Or maybe cryptography if I were better at math.

As it is, I focussed on networking, so most of my coding revolves around very specific, task-oriented software that is not usually all that interesting to design or implement... Most of the really innovative networking stuff is in the hardware at point and will likely remain on that level until someone develops something to replace TCP/IP or BGP. Actually, now that I think about it, wireless network topologies have brought up some new issues with hard questions that are probably worth investigating if you're at all inclined toward networking.

--- learning assembly at the moment.

[Edited on Nov 05, 2002 by thurmack]

I am a perl coder. I also do ruby, java, php, sql, and a few others(cough cough VB). look me up on perlmonks.org if any of you ever get the urge to try out perl (in my opinion the best general purpose cross-platform programming launguage, though not the best for every single task, right job right tool) i am thunders on there too. very friendly helpful and skillful peeps hang out at that site.

[Edited on Nov 05, 2002 by thunders]

Wow! Lot's of serious computer people. Haven't done much coding except for AppleScript, JavaScript and CGI/Perl.

I got into computers through typesetting. CPM. Tag markup. DOS. Apple II. Mac. NeXT. UNIX servers. Windoze. Now OS X. I do mostly HTML (now XHTML) and some freelance prepress work.

But programming is fun! I just wish I knew more.

I have a b.s. in computer science... at my job i mainly code in Python and PHP but I am pretty comfortable with plenty of other languages (C++, Java, LISP, etc etc.)

I may go back for another bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in the fall, with plans to do grad work in robotics.

um... i don't really do much programming anymore, been too busy with music and stuff and sort of lost interest, but...

i was a cs major for 3 years (now a music major) and i worked at helix code (now ximian), eazel, netscape, and a company called ridge run which is very out of business.

um... i wrote a bunch of GNOME stuff which is a linux desktop thing.

ages and ages ago i was involved in something for windows called litestep, don't know if anyone has ever even heard of it.

man i am seriously outing myself as a geek with this.

O + s5 = hot geek couple

i did lan administration for a couple of years and started out in tech support a few years before that. being paid to be a geek was fun, but w/o a geek degree or a super-impressive resume i am off to find something new.

yeah...???

i enjoy coding. all coding. whether it's simple web shit or game code or music or whatever. it's fun. i enjoy problem solving. prolly stemming from my need to take care of people and whatnot.

recently i've been sick of computers though. the fact that they were my focus for years and years and all the sudden i can't find a job using the skills i have. time to get back to doin stuff with my hands and my head. still, i sit in front of my computer 80% of the day. go figure. :/

I write perl to make my life easier...usually it makes it a living hell.

Codaz in da house... Codaz in da house...

I'm all up in the programming fer real yo. Right now it's all Unix network/system in good ole C. Our product is network security, trying to keep all those little ankle-biter script kiddies at bay.
Mostly it's C, then C++ and perl. I'm staying in the unix realm, but I've programmed on windows too.

Open source is "da bomb".
There are about a dozen ideas for programming projects I ponder doing, but then I realize maybe it's a good thing to not have your ass attached to the computer chair.

Although I know a lot of different languages, lately all I seem to have been using is PHP and MySQL for web/database programming. I wrote the code (and did the design) for the Reclaim The Streets website for the Chicago west suburbs.

I used to program for BeOS (as a happy, though). My god, that was so much fun. If anything even *didn't* feel like work, it was that.

Oh, BeOS, how I miss you so...

Circuit

I pretty much spend my whole day programming...something. I'm getting my programmer/analyst degree from college right now. I normally work with VB, Java, C++ at school. At work I do web programming with javascript, CF, php, crystal reports, mySQL..yes all my cyrstal reports are posted on the web, thank you crystal enterprise. I do a lot of internal database and network stuff too. I set up a whole seperate network outside of our corporate network solely so I could go to porn sites and other restricted sites such as this one I administer the network so what can they say? Fuck they make me do everything for little pay. I'm a nerd

[Edited on Nov 06, 2002 by bigpunkmike]

I'm a telecom geek to say the least. Right now my major in college is "Telecommunication Security Administration" I have been working with telecom for many years. I have also been coding since I was a little kid so I have been doing it for about 10 years now. In my free time when I'm not working or doing the school thing I write articles for 2600 magazine and securityfocus.com

I've been a professional geek for about eight years but I recently quit my job. I've had it up to here with developing websites and with the video game industry.

Video games: I started as a tester and eventually became a programmer (I did a little bit of art stuff and world building as well). The good things about game programming were that I could dress however I wanted and that the programming problems were interesting. Most video games are basically a big crazy physics simulator and that's neat stuff (if your a geek). The bad thing was that there are so many geeky gamer types in the world that want to work on video games, that the companys can get away with paying low wages and expecting ridiculous hours. I often felt that I was working in a digital sweat shop. I worked 12 hour days, 7 days a week for a while. Then, when the game shipped, instead of getting the bonus we were promised, we all got shitcanned. The thing I hated the most though, was the futility. You'd work hard on a game for months only to find that the funding got cut and the project is cancelled. Or even if the project does beat the odds and make it all the way through to release, chances are that it's a turd that's going straight to the bargin bin and is completely forgotten in a month. Not every game can be Grand Theft Auto Vice City (there's a product that you could be proud of). It bothered me that I spent months and months of my life busting my butt on something as inconcequential as a mediocre video game.

Web site work isn't quite a brutal but the actual programming isn't as interesting and there's still a bizzare expectation that you're gonna work 50 hours a week or more. For me, the feeling that I'm wasting my life is even more acute. Many of the sites I've worked on are essentially advertising... and if there's one thing in this world that I detest, it's advertising. Add to that the fact that any given web site you build for someone will only be used for a year or two before it's replaced with something fancier and you've got a recipe for feeling like you wasting you life. The final problem with web work is the yuppification of the industry. When I started, the tech people were almost always punk kids like me that never got a college degree and refused to wear kahki pants and blue button front shirts to work. Over the years, I've seen the industry become much more 'professional'. ick. I've had it.

I'm moving to monterey and I'm going back to school so I can go into marine science (I haven't decided yet if I'm going to be a biologist or work in the technology side of things). I'm leaving the internet to the dockers crowd. I'm gonna go find the giant squid.

P.S. I know several really cool people that are still happy with their programming type jobs and it certainly does beat the hell out of digging ditches. The system administrators that I know seem to have it the best. Their hours typically aren't too bad (though they do have to be on call sometimes) and they get paid really really well.