From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T11:34:14+09:00
Subject: Re: begining programmer questions

On 5/14/06, Bill Guindon <agorilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/06, corey konrad <0011@hush.com> wrote:
> > yup i'll get it, need a break now though, you know when you read tacos
> > as a misspelling of "to cos" that you have been studying programming and
> > math all day.
>
> Yeah, definitely a natural.  It won't be long before you wake up
> dreaming of code ;)

Oh man, code comes to you at the WEIRDEST times.  I can't tell you how
many times I've half-woken up at 3am, and in that mid-dreamy state
somehow figured out the answer to a problem.  Then I hop out of bed
and make it happen.  Sometimes it doesn't work, and then you're like,
"It'll only take 10 minutes or so" and you find yourself still
pounding at the keyboard at 7am.  "hrm, better shower and go to work."
 I like it better when my dream code works perfectly though :)

Also, I have a lot of answers come to me in the shower for some
reason.  I keep a small whiteboard and grease pen in the shower so I
can write it down, instead of prematurely ending my shower or having
to repeat the solution in my head over and over until I'm done.

Corey, don't worry if some of this stuff seems hard.  I remember when
I first started, I would literally stare at the same 10 lines of code
for hours, not having any clue that I was just missing a semicolon or
something stupid like that.  The very beginning is cumbersome, to say
the least, but it teaches you perhaps one of the most important things
about programming - how to read documentation and look up errors.

Pat