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[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, Wolfy is that guy in our class.
While we were all pootering around with making the form for our programming project last year, he'd finished all the actual coding and design and had moved on to building games into his

[Knight of Fools]

Wow, I kinda derailed the happy thread. That makes me happy.

It's a program from my book that converts numbers to Roman Numerals. I had to do each number individually, 1 - 10. It's nothing special at all, really.

I'm taking a college class for VB, though, and it was the only course that was available online at the local college. I would definitely have preferred Java or any of the C languages, since you can do more cool stuff with them. You take what you get, though, and I'm still enjoying the heck out of it.

[freeformschooler]

On top of my last post here, I think I learned the most important lesson today I've ever learned.

The lesson is it doesn't matter if you're right. Attempting to convince others you are right and they are wrong is futile and in 9 out of 10 cases will lead to grief. If you want to be happy in life, you gotta learn that sometimes it's not worth doing that. It's not worth throwing yourself in a ditch to provide a point or destroying a friendship to sway that friend's viewpoints.

If somebody or something is going to change, they're going to do so on their own volition, not because you told them they were wrong.

[Max White]

Wow, I kinda derailed the happy thread. That makes me happy.

It's a program from my book that converts numbers to Roman Numerals. I had to do each number individually, 1 - 10. It's nothing special at all, really.

I'm taking a college class for VB, though, and it was the only course that was available online at the local college. I would definitely have preferred Java or any of the C languages, since you can do more cool stuff with them. You take what you get, though, and I'm still enjoying the heck out of it.

Well the important bit is that c#, VB and Java are all very similar languages in implementation, it is only in syntax they really differ for the most part. C# can do a few things Java can't, and Java does something differently to c#, but for the most part anything you learn will carry over easily.

[Knight of Fools]

What's funny is that the degree I'm going for requires a class for each of those.

[Max White]

Eh, they are all the same language, just in different dresses. Even python is trying to be unique by putting on a skirt instead, but I see through her game.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Messing around with bfxr.
You can get some pretty neat sound effects

[Max White]

Now if only there was an easy way to get unique graphics and music, game development would be so easy!

[kaenneth]

The only person who will be looking at my code is me

And VB indentation is horrible.

I do contract software testing, two contracts I had were in the same group; so I ending up working on code I had written myself 2 years previously... and then had someone else maintain.

I literally cannot overstate the importance of good comments. I had everything commented, but a lot of them were 'what' comments, not 'why' comments.

It's vitally important to explain in comments if there is a reason you used a particular pattern/construct/method.

Otherwise you'll end up looking at your own code, and wondering what the hell you were thinking at the time.

[Knight of Fools]

...wondering what the hell you were thinking at the time.

This applies to more than just coding!

//RL needs comments.

[Detonate]

Nature sure is weird!

[Knight of Fools]

Nature sure is weird!

Freaking epic.

[Frumple]

This applies to more than just coding!

//RL needs comments.

RL has comments, we're just still trying to figure out what language they're all in

[MaximumZero]

You guys have never heard of signs, huh?

[Aklyon]

You guys have never heard of signs, huh?

They aren't that descriptive. Some are recursive too, helping not much.