Discussion Thread II: Bots? What bots?

[PLA]

[ZetaBladeX13]

I've got a little bit of C++, HTML, Cobol (ikr?), and Java under my belt.

Nothing more, sadly :V

[negzee]

lol COBOL

[ZetaBladeX13]

IKR?


One of my best friends took a course in Cobol with me, and after he graduated that semester, he was hired by Fidelity solely due to his knowledge in Cobol.

I guess taking a single college course made him more qualified than people that had been working there for years, lmao.

[PLA]

^ Is Cobol tasty? :3

[Reynard-Miri]

with Cobol:
USEing a COLT.45 HANDGUN, AIM GUN at LEG.FOOT, THEN PLACE ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN RETURN HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether SHOELACE needs to be retied.

[Kimiko]

I'm done with my PHP course now. It was okay, and somewhat interesting, but didn't get into any of the more difficult stuff like OOP*. Basically what I learned was how to do get/post/sessions and how to SQLite/MySQL, after the basics of course. Ah well, I'd have to rely on the online docs anyway for a while if I'd get a job programming PHP.

Cobol is an abomination that ought to be killed with fire. An employer once hired an instructor to teach Cobol to a group I was part of, but I was secretly like "la la la I can't hear you", and quickly forgot everything afterwards.


* OOP isn't really difficult of course, it's just that most of my programming experience is C, not C++.

[Reynard-Miri]

The most aggravating language I ever had to learn was Haskell. It's a very interesting language, but... It's hard to describe how frustratingly difficult it is to do anything useful with it.

[negzee]

Hey I like Haskell. It's a beautiful language. Although, to be productive with it requires a significant shift from the imperative/procedural mindset suited to working in more mainstream languages.

[Kimiko]

I got a call this afternoon from a recruiter I applied at. She wanted me to send some PHP code that showed familiarity with
- databases (uhm, I know how to open a MySQL connection and send queries, is that enough?)
- MVC (what's that? *looks it up* ... I still don't understand)
- security (well, theoretically I could make a login/password checking thingy?)
- OOP (I know how to do that in C, but have no experience with languages that are actually OO)
- documentation (uh, I can do excessive commenting if you really want that?)

*sigh* I feel so incompetent now

[Hong]

Any of my fellow Canadians feeling a little unsteady with our new money? I almost gave the cashier $60 instead of $20. After that incident, I rub my bills furiously just to be sure they are not sticking to each other.

[zamisk]

I've been using my debit card a lot so I don't spend my change on crap and save mroe money, I've only had one or two since they've been here. Haven't had a problem yet.

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Reynard-Miri]

[negzee]

Regarding the documentation in code thing: my interpretation is that they're looking to see familiarity with standards and conventions of commenting like .