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

Nothing more, sadly :V

lol COBOL

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.

^ Is Cobol tasty? :3

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.

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++.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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