Where are all the computer nerds?

blinkme323 · 02-05-2010, 11:26 AM

B.S in comp sci, I currently work as a programmer. Mostly unix/Linux, and dare i say it, vms.

soCo · 02-05-2010, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by vipor

Yeah I remember back in the day getting a few VB books and learning that way. With all of the online tutorials and crap it should be easy to jump into application programming with C++ especially since I've kept most of the concepts of things like functions and recursion fresh doing PHP. Web of course is not the way I want to go. I did it in the past right about '99/'00 for a living and it was not a good way to make money. I'll probably take some time to do that, but I'm thinking networking might be the right way to go as far as a real job goes.

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.

370Zsteve · 02-05-2010, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by soCo

I'll be graduating in May from Penn States IST program.

July I start my job developing applications using c++, java, j2ee.
I like to program open source projects.
I want to start an open source project for the android. But it's way over my head.

Who else is a computer nerd.

All the nerds are in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai.

vipor · 02-05-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by soCo

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.

I haven't gotten into AJAX/RoR/.NET at all. Definitely is where things are going online though.

GonGo · 02-05-2010, 01:21 PM

Hi,

Graduated in computer science 04'...

I mostly drifted away from programming and into the infrastructure part of the industry... Worked as an systems consultant first working my way into an MCSE:Security and as an active directory / security buff... but now ive been working on Enterprise / Carrier level networks and working my way from an CCNA/CCDA certification halfway through my CCNP cert...

Can't complain much... theres always something new.

Gaiiden · 02-05-2010, 11:26 PM

There's been a slight change since that photo last month:

Love my job

Florida_GATOR · 02-05-2010, 11:47 PM

....I can add and subtract binary....no?.....ok

SoCal 370Z · 02-06-2010, 12:09 AM

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Love my job

Griffen Technology PowerMates! I've got two I use!

soCo · 02-06-2010, 10:18 AM

Wow nice setup

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Originally Posted by Gaiiden

There's been a slight change since that photo last month:

Love my job

Horseface · 02-06-2010, 01:08 PM

The only programming I'm doing these days is MIDI...

Gaiiden · 02-07-2010, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z

Griffen Technology PowerMates! I've got two I use!

love it for when I edit video, mainly

Gaiiden · 02-08-2010, 11:58 PM

In case anyone's interested, I wrote up a complete history of my office setup over on my blog. It's something I've been meaning to get to for a while now. This is an ongoing project that has gone on for 8 years so far! Have some changes in mind for 2010...

Heh, wish I had money instead of monthly payments so I could post up a car journal as well :P

Gaiiden · 02-08-2010, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Horseface

The only programming I'm doing these days is MIDI...

That's a sweet little studio. What camera is that I see in the corner of the second pic?

Horseface · 02-09-2010, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Gaiiden

That's a sweet little studio. What camera is that I see in the corner of the second pic?

Thanks! It's tiny, but I call it home.

It's an HVX200, stripped back down to stock.

Here's what it looks like when I can be bothered to set it up with my 35mm adapter and rails:

dudafunk · 10-19-2010, 02:53 PM

Master's in Computer Science from Stony Brook, NY (quit my PhD). . . working now.

Good thread!

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