From: corey konrad <0011@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T05:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: program writing

I guess i thought that would just sort of click after i learned a 
language, but i guess that isnt how it works. I didnt really begin 
learning ruby for any reason other than wanting to know how to program. 
I tried getting my first internship doing programming and they said they 
wanted someone with an extensive portfolio of software they have 
developed. I have no idea what software to work on. I have looked at 
some of the open source projects being done and i dont understand what i 
am looking at....yet i understood the exercises form the book i was 
learning from which went over the syntax and key words etc. Its pretty 
confusing its almost like you have to run a program and try to figure 
out wht part of a program is doing what even after you know a language. 
Programming languages are pretty small things but what you can do with 
them is amazing. Just a few words and some syntax rules and you can 
build entire operating systems and video games etc. I just thought it 
would be a more flowing process i guess. Like ok i am going to sit down 
and write a music player all of my own or something but it doesnt work 
that way, i think it would take me like a year to make something like 
that if not longer. I think my expectations of programming were a bit 
unrealistic.


> Programming is not so much an art like poetry as a craft, like making a 
> chair. I don't think you can just open up an editor and start typing 
> code until you have an end in sight. You need an itch to scratch, a need 
> to fill, a problem to solve. What drew you to the idea of learning 
> programming to begin with? What did you hope to accomplish?


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