Your age!

[pcbrainbuster]

Hello all :),

Tell Me Your Age Or DIE !!! :), just kidding i created this thread to see what the ages of people here are...

[Blake]

I don't want to die! :eek:

I'll be 24 in two weeks. Please don't kill me!

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL - don't worry your in the clear :)

At first for some reason for about a second i though you meant your going to be 24 months year old in two weeks :)

[boxxertrumps]

15. 16 in july

[thetestingsite]

Gonna be 20 in a week.

[mburt]

I'm 14, turning 15 in June.

[djr33]

19, since January.

[tech_support]

14, turning 15 in September.

P.S. What's YOUR age pcbrainbuster?

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL I forgot :),

I am apperently the most youngest here 13 turining 14 in september...:)

[pcbrainbuster]

How did the title from yo age turn to your age ?

[mburt]

How did the title from yo age turn to your age ?
I assume ddadmin changed it.

[chechu]

31 in July.
I feel miserable looking at your ages and your knowledge ...
But I console myself knowing that in the US you guys are ways ahead (I see you can even study coding in highschool ?).
My schooling system, considered being the third best in the world, didn't give me that option in my days ...

[ozzgod]

31 in July.
I feel miserable looking at your ages and your knowledge ...


how do you think I feel... lol...

50 years as of January...

[chechu]

Quote:
Originally Posted by chechu
31 in July.
I feel miserable looking at your ages and your knowledge ...


how do you think I feel... lol...

50 years as of January...
At least you can say you have experience in something ...
I'm in the middle of nothing and the rest !

[pcbrainbuster]

What do you mean you feel miserable (if you mean that you don't know anything about javascript PHP... then tell me i will give you a site that specialises in all languages of the web (pretty much all thoug), but trust me it won't be easy)

[shachi]

At least you can say you have experience in something ...
I'm in the middle of nothing and the rest !

Been there, felt that. Don't just say "I am in the middle of nothing", it being in the middle of nothing that makes you search for something. ;) If you don't know anything, I betcha that you'll surely learn a lot of things from this forum(and other resources out there in the [world]wild[web]).

[pcbrainbuster]

nd trust me if a stupid 13 year old can do it so can you :)

[lainlives]

17 be 18 in october

ozzgod dont feel bad technology is just this generation that is what the world is about now natrally thats what people are goin to be good at now

[Twey]

But I console myself knowing that in the US you guys are ways ahead (I see you can even study coding in highschool ?).If it's anything like it is here, it might as well not even be on the curriculum.

I'm entirely self-taught. That's not to say I've had no formal education; it's just that the formal education didn't teach me anything useful I didn't know already. It has a love of Microsoft products, abstract principles, and giving long names to things.

One such course, for example, taught us to create a frontend to a database. In Microsoft Excel. This being advertised as a programming class, I was most miffed when I discovered that the closest it came to actual programming was a few VBA macros.

[pcbrainbuster]

Same here i am completely self taught in everything but the wierdest thing is that my teacher started me off if you want to know how read on -

One day I was at school and had the lesson ICT, and the topic was building web sites (which lasted only about one week), my teacher showed the class how to open and close tags and thats it - since i liked computers alot (and still do) i was interested by it and learned javascript and all others through the web...

So really anyone can learn unless you have no passion in some cases (by this i mean that the more you like something the more you will want to learn about it (so your mind will start learning anything you like faster than what you hate))

Trust me that it pretty much true :)

[mburt]

(I see you can even study coding in highschool ?).
Nope, not even close where I live. We hardly have a tech program.
I'm self taught as well.

[pcbrainbuster]

And one more thing - where i am they do teaach you computer in high school except that its only microsoft office and the teachers look so begginer in html and most of them probably know nothing....

[mburt]

Yeah, same. We have a teacher this year that came from a bigger city, and they taught basic HTML in that school. The teacher had the main computer which they projected on the wall, and the students just looked off of... sounds cool.

[pcbrainbuster]

WO !!! Thats how my class is the use some cool projector - does that teacher seem to know anything ? :)

[Sikky]

I guess Im the oldest in here - will be 55years old in September. Oh boy Im glad that 55 is only a number.

[pcbrainbuster]

Woops in another thread i thought you were around 20-30 cause of your name an started using words like dude (sorry about that !:))

[mburt]

does that teacher seem to know anything ?
Not really, just the basics.

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL - what do teachers know :)

[BLiZZaRD]

An old saying:

"Those that can't do, teach."

(wonder's why he's always posting help on others Flash projects... :rolleyes:)

[Blake]

And one more thing - where i am they do teaach you computer in high school except that its only microsoft office and the teachers look so begginer in html and most of them probably know nothing....

You should take one of my computer classes :D I teach my students about binary arithmetic, logic circuits, etc. I started teaching them JavaScript too, but that was cut short by a few snow days.

Next trimester my students get to learn C++.


An old saying:

"Those that can't do, teach."

(wonder's why he's always posting help on others Flash projects... :rolleyes:)

http://voidedwarranty.com/forum/images/smilies/cussing.gif:D

[Twey]

You skip straight from binary and low-level logic to Javascript/C++?

May I suggest that you start with some form of assembly language? C's a logical step up from that too. I'm no teacher (so please do forgive me for advising you on how to do your job :)), but I have taught a few people from scratch, and I find it's a lot easier if you either start at a high level and work your way down, or start at a low level and work your way up (preferably the latter, or students start to get the "oh no lots of code!" syndrome :)).

[Blake]

You skip straight from binary and low-level logic to Javascript/C++?

May I suggest that you start with some form of assembly language? C's a logical step up from that too. I'm no teacher (so please do forgive me for advising you on how to do your job :)), but I have taught a few people from scratch, and I find it's a lot easier if you either start at a high level and work your way down, or start at a low level and work your way up (preferably the latter, or students start to get the "oh no lots of code!" syndrome :)).

lol, I think they would kill me if I made them learn assembly.

The C++ course is an entire course by itself - C++ from the first day of class until the final project.

[mburt]

You skip straight from binary and low-level logic to Javascript/C++?
You must be a good teacher :)

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL this forum is turning out great - anyway blake what are your students age ? :confused:

And whats assembly ?

And to say the least when i was small i litrally believed that teachers did not exist outside school .... (oh, nothng against you - your a friend of the greeg)

[pcbrainbuster]

And oh yeah how would you say the kids over there are (i am thinkin stupid, greedy, morons, spitballs on your back when you look at it...(only if they are less then 15 years old))

[Blake]

I teach two high school classes (mixed age) and one middle school class.

The high-schoolers are well behaved. The middle-schoolers are a bit unruly.

Assembly is a programming language that translates one to one into machine language (the native language of the processor). It extremely low level. You need to tell the CPU to do every little thing. For example, just to add two numbers, you would need to load both numbers into registers in the cpu (two instructions), do the add (another instruction), and then copy the result back into memory (another instruction). Also, if there's already something important in the registers you need, you would need to back that up somewhere else before you could move your new data in (more instructions).

[pcbrainbuster]

Riiiigggghhhttt ? - you lost me in assembly but anyway do you teach the advanced stuff to all three or is it one of them ?

[Blake]

Last trimester, I had one class of 8th graders and one mixed-age high school class. I taught the 8th graders basic web design and I taught the high-schoolers binary arithmetic/logic circuits/JavaScript. This trimester (which starts after spring break) I'm teaching a 6-7 grade class and two mixed-age high school classes. The middle-schoolers are learning basic web design. One high-school class is in C++, and the other is in art and animation using Blender.

Sorry for the novel. That's as short as I could make it.

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL :) - its alright, anyway how would you say they are doing ?

[Blake]

They seem to grasp the material pretty well. I don't go nearly as fast as a college course on the same topics. It's very tricky teaching middle-schoolers web design. They do alright though. They tend to get the concepts, but forget the details. For example, they know that to make a link, you need a tag with an attribute to set the location, and they'll write something like


<a src=" ...

It's the right idea, but the wrong syntax.

[pcbrainbuster]

hmmmm, how long have you been teaching them ?
LOL - your probably the best teacher of ict there !!!

[Blake]

I think it's roughly ten weeks per trimester.

[pcbrainbuster]

Hmmm i seee - do you like your job ?

[pcbrainbuster]

Well goodnight everyone i have flipping school tommorow and now am being forced asleep - (where are the human rghts maaaaaaan) :)

GOODNIGHT !

[Blake]

I love it. I'm definitely considering teaching as a career, but I'm going to get my PhD first so I can teach at the college level.

Goodnight!

[benslayton]

turned 16 in Jan.

[Demonicman]

16, 17 in august for me

[tech_support]

Same here i am completely self taught in everything but the wierdest thing is that my teacher started me off if you want to know how read on -

One day I was at school and had the lesson ICT, and the topic was building web sites (which lasted only about one week), my teacher showed the class how to open and close tags and thats it - since i liked computers alot (and still do) i was interested by it and learned javascript and all others through the web...

So really anyone can learn unless you have no passion in some cases (by this i mean that the more you like something the more you will want to learn about it (so your mind will start learning anything you like faster than what you hate))

Trust me that it pretty much true
You're learning websites? We don't get to do that until year 12. So damn slow....

[Twey]

and they'll write something like
<a src=" ...It's the right idea, but the wrong syntax.Well, an easy mistake to make -- I do that too :) I usually have a setup like:
<link href="something.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="something.js" type="text/javascript"></script>... and it's quite easy to get mixed up between them. I think src and href should be combined into one attribute. They perform the same function anyway.

[pcbrainbuster]

Well goodmorning everyone (actually goodafternoon now) -

to tech_support - well, the way the school teaches web desihn is so lame it throws you off (they show you nothing cool really - i used internet to help me)

to evryone - if you want to know when i was born is actually 11 of september and i swear i am not making fun of what happend if you know what i mean, its just simply a coincedance...

[shachi]

I think that the people who actually have someone to teach them are lucky but I also think that the ones that don't have are more luckier, they get to do things their own way.

[mburt]

I think src and href should be combined into one attribute.
Agree. But one must've come before the other, otherwise they would be the same attribute.

[Twey]

Different people learn in different ways, and teachers usually can't individualise their classes to each person in the class. If a class teaches the way you learn, that's great, but quite often the person simply won't "get it" until they study it on their own.

[pcbrainbuster]

Hello :), i have not said anything for a long time and thing is important for me to do :)

So uhhhhh. hello :):)

[djr33]

No. You don't. I'm a big poster, but you don't see me posting just to post.
By the way, if you haven't realized it, the lounge now no longer counts toward post count.

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL :) - i was just doin it as a joke, had no intension for the post thing :)

[djr33]

Heh, ok. But... this is a discussion, not an event which you are hosting.

[pcbrainbuster]

Lol :)

[jnscollier]

I'm 24 :)

[DanielSmith]

25...lol

[killerchutney]

I'm 14. Only got a PC last year. But even before that I probibly (yes I know that my spelling sucks.)knew more than most of my class.

[mburt]

(yes I know that my spelling sucks.)
The funnier part is the fact that you knew you spelled it wrong. :p

[thetestingsite]

I'm 14. Only got a PC last year. But even before that I probibly (yes I know that my spelling sucks.) knew more than most of my class.

Obviously, not in spelling. :p (kidding around).

[pcbrainbuster]

Well to tell the truth in forums like these it does not even matter if you get spelling mistakes as long as it makes sense -

valid spelling mistake
---------------------
I ave a stoopid sister (that still makes sense ave is have and stoopid is stupid)

invalid spelling mistake
----------------------
IAvEASToOpIDSIsteR (this says the same thing as above except its so hard to understand...)

[killerchutney]

Yeah, spelling has never been my strong point, and all the coding I do doesn't make it better. center, color...

[pcbrainbuster]

Hmmm true :)

[Twey]

It confused me when I started, too. Now I've learnt to switch between American spellings for code, and English spellings for text. However, wxWidgets still throws me, since it uses English spellings in code :confused:
Well to tell the truth in forums like these it does not even matter if you get spelling mistakes as long as it makes sense -There's more than one level of communication. At the most basic level, yes, it's possible to omit vowels, swap letters around, play havoc with punctuation and capitalisation, &c., and people will still (usually) understand you. However, to write in a manner that can be understood by the widest range, and to convey one's semantic meaning and nuances accurately, it's usually better to use correct spelling and grammar.

I look on it as being quite similar to valid/invalid code: invalid code works, but requires more effort to parse, is generally less pleasing to read, and can occasionally cause meaning to be lost.

[boxxertrumps]

Anywho, Chechu, dont worry about it. you were my age when the internet came into existance. but as for courses, the first time i remember coding html was in the 7th grade for a french project. not really formal, everything past anchors and tables has been self taught.

[mburt]

wxWidgets still throws me, since it uses English spellings in code
I installed 2.8.2 today, and looked at some tutorials.

Example (C++):

class MyFrame: public wxFrame
{
public:

MyFrame(const wxString& title, const wxPoint& pos, const wxSize& size);

void OnQuit(wxCommandEvent& event);
void OnAbout(wxCommandEvent& event);

DECLARE_EVENT_TABLE()
};

MyFrame(), OnQuit(), OnAbout()
All english terms. (Just further proving Twey's point)

[Twey]

You forgot wxColour (although this does have the synonym wxColor).

[mburt]

Must be next to impossible for people who don't speak English.

[Twey]

Doubt it... just confusing. :p

[Butterfly]

I'm 27. And I'm proud of it.

[pcbrainbuster]

I'm happy for you dude :)

[lainlives]

may i ask how EVERY thread gets off track in every forum on every site about something unrelated??

i do it to but it dont understand if it is a mind-controll thing or not

[pcbrainbuster]

Well this is an example - say you had a thread talking about cars in general, sometime later someone may say something specific in terms of cars like a specific car like Mclaren F1 then slowly everone will start talking about Mclaren F1 then another person may go more specific like it's engine then the engine's company then what the company specialises in then slowly it begins to change like that...

[Twey]

You have to remember that a forum thread is a conversation... conversations tend to wander.

[mburt]

Lol... if my science teacher starts to talk about something, he'll keep on. Eventually he'll be on a topic not related anything whatsoever about what he was originally talking about.
Example:
"So my buddy Normy and me was in Vancouver. And I asked if I could have a ride in his cop car... he said yes." eventually he'll start talking about the type of car... then he got a truck, last year he got a new truck. "We were goin' along in his new Ford F-150 and we saw a bird (Hank) in the middle of the road. His friend was on the side of the road. We got about 100 meters away from the bird, and it started to walk across. Before we knew it the second was dead. I can only imagine it say: Hank, Hank! What are you lying down for, Hank?"

[pcbrainbuster]

:)lol:)

[Freeman]

When they do get off topic they are rather interesting conversations which make reading them interesting. Not only do you learn something, you learn six or seven other things as well. JF

[tech_support]

may i ask how EVERY thread gets off track in every forum on every site about something unrelated??

'Cause we're human.

[pcbrainbuster]

You may have not noticed but this thread is going off as well :)

[kosi]

Wow, it didn't occur to me that this was such a young crowd.

I'm twenty one, btw.

[Aidanx]

I am only fifteen but I believe that the younger generation have the most important views because we are the ones who have a chance to make it happen.

[killerchutney]

Yes, I think the same way. The only bad side I see is that all the good domains were gone by the time i got interested in buying my own :(

[Victoria]

Well, I'm not the oldest, but close...

I'll be 48 in June.

Am I the only female?

[Twey]

Not the only one, but we don't have any regulars, which is a shame.

This statistic seems to be a reflection of the computer industry as a whole, it's very male-oriented. I know a few female coders, but only a few, and nowhere near the number of male ones I know (perhaps one in fifty are female).

[Aidanx]

Yeah, out of all my female friends, only one is computer skilled.

[pcbrainbuster]

Same here ....
Exept we are all male :)

But still I am happier that I am the only computer skilled guy as it makes me more individual... The rest are always playing football (you call soccer in america) and though I am one of them atleast I have another hobbie (they are brain-dead zombies)...