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Does being a script kiddie count..
if yes.. I am uber staunch at hacking

If you are a skilled programmer you don't need a certificate saying you can code in 10 languages... you'll have the fundamentals to get any job and can learn the syntax in no time.

I can do Delphi...well i'm still learning

Anthropoid21 wrote:Does being a script kiddie count..
if yes.. I am uber staunch at hacking

It's called cracking.
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C# [excellent]
Java[good]
VB.Net[ok]
Delphi[ok]
ASP + HTML + javascript[ok]
cobol[ok]
C++[not much]
AJAX[learning]

Moses wrote:If you are a skilled programmer you don't need a certificate saying you can code in 10 languages... you'll have the fundamentals to get any job and can learn the syntax in no time.

Agreed...well, except for the Assembler stuff...

Started on GWBasic and QBasic... Moved to Pascal in matric... VB6 after that.... then VB.Net. Currently on VB Express 2005 which uses .NET 2.0.

I'm pretty kewl with PIC Assembly. And SQL.

I know a little C...

I find it quite strange that so few people no C! I use C so much, in so many different situations, I'd be lost without it!

I'm a qualified programmer: C++, Borland C++ Bulder, Visual C++, VB6, Java, SQL, PHP, HTML
I attempted ASM, but never passed the course

Dont ask me for help tho. I discovered after a short stint in the real world that I hate programming.

each 2 his own!

I program and stuff

jamin_za wrote:I discovered after a short stint in the real world that I hate programming.

Why J?

Alot of stuff.

Deadlines first and foremost...
Then there was the sitting and coding for 8 or more hours - or worse - sitting and rewriting somebody elses old code, its hell boring IMO.

Also co-workers - people with ego's, people who did absolutely nothng but took credit when the job was done...

I enjoy support alot more than development.

jamin_za wrote:Alot of stuff.

Deadlines first and foremost...
Then there was the sitting and coding for 8 or more hours - or worse - sitting and rewriting somebody elses old code, its hell boring IMO.

Also co-workers - people with ego's, people who did absolutely nothng but took credit when the job was done...

I enjoy support alot more than development.

I hear u man. Personally I find it exiting. Or solving a problem at least. Funny, I don't like support (programming). I prefer development thou.

I pretty much work in, erm, "training". (Those who have viewed my profile will know exactly what I'm talking about.) Not the best thing in the world but it's a start. Would love to get into development.

Ron2K wrote:I pretty much work in, erm, "training". (Those who have viewed my profile will know exactly what I'm talking about.) Not the best thing in the world but it's a start. Would love to get into development.

I almost kinda went the route as a trainer @ CPUT. I used to help the 1st years with C++ and Cobol.
Development is nice, but it's the responsibility that comes with it that tick me off. If the system dies becoz of ur poor programming then there's a lot of yelling to be endured...

I started learning Visual C++ when I was 13, become fairly good at it it the 4 years.

Delphi - did it because of school, very good at it (not hard to be very good at it though)

Javascript - Im decent - not great, not bad... never really need it though.

HTML im decent at... yet again, never really need it.

Assembler - im decent at...

PHR33K wrote:I started learning Visual C++ when I was 13, become fairly good at it it the 4 years.

@ 13 I didn't notice girls yet and u started out with C++?
What a wonderfull world...

UndaGrad wrote:A question to the programmers: I notice that you've all listed several different languages; is knowledge and experience of all those languages necessary for one to be a good programmer? I mean, can't somebody just specialise in, say, C++?

There is an old saying, jack of all trades, master of none.

IMHO specialising is better.

FTB_Screamer wrote:

UndaGrad wrote:A question to the programmers: I notice that you've all listed several different languages; is knowledge and experience of all those languages necessary for one to be a good programmer? I mean, can't somebody just specialise in, say, C++?

There is an old saying, jack of all trades, master of none.

IMHO specialising is better.

Once you know one its easy to pick up others but I prefer sticking to one language if I can. When you work with too many languages at the same time you start to do stupid things like putting ; at the end of each line in your VB code.

To learn the more difficult languages it's better to start with something simpler to get the feel for it which is why I think most people know more than one. I wouldn't have liked ASM to be my first language.

UndaGrad wrote:A question to the programmers: I notice that you've all listed several different languages; is knowledge and experience of all those languages necessary for one to be a good programmer? I mean, can't somebody just specialise in, say, C++?

As one of my friends put it, a programmer with only one language is like a builder with only one tool. You need a hammer and a screwdriver to do most things worth doing.

jamin_za wrote:Alot of stuff.

Deadlines first and foremost...
Then there was the sitting and coding for 8 or more hours - or worse - sitting and rewriting somebody elses old code, its hell boring IMO.

Also co-workers - people with ego's, people who did absolutely nothng but took credit when the job was done...

I enjoy support alot more than development.

Dude i hear you loud and clear, i'm a programmer by profession but i hate it to bits, being trying hard to do support but lack necessary qualifications alwayz asking for damn MCSE(too late to start a new course 3 yrs in Tech was enuff).

Though i'm fairly competent in VB.NET code

I can like to progrêm in:
C#
C++
HTML
Javascript
XML
ASP.NET

I am not a Windows/Linux programmer but I am a Electronic Engineer. And I can program in Assembler and C for embedded applications. Started learning JAVA at some stage but stopped that

SoulBlade wrote:

PHR33K wrote:I started learning Visual C++ when I was 13, become fairly good at it it the 4 years.

@ 13 I didn't notice girls yet and u started out with C++?
What a wonderfull world...

i have an excuse... I was living in Botswana...