Besides, I know I'm basically just a wanna-be, but my experience of coding is very...different, then the public perception of the work, especially in large projects. write a couple lines, test, curse at the monitor, tweak, test, curse at the monitor, tweak, throw the monitor out the window. Get a new monitor, tweak, test again, go out to lunch, get an idea, tweak, it finally works, write a few more new lines and repeat the whole process ad nauseum. <br>
<br>I wrote a python calculator, nothing special, just adds and subtracts. 50 lines. Took me at least a week. Granted, it's not my full time job, but I did some scribbling in various notebooks at Wendy's over dinner when I could until I could type it out <img goomoji="330" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:330@goomoji.gmail"><br>
<br>Most of the large projects I've seen don't tend to have one person in charge of the whole source, this guy writes a function, that guy writes the video driver...etc...etc... To a degree you all end up leaning on each other anyway. Case and point, <a href="http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/rubberduck">http://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/rubberduck</a><br>
<br>Bean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Brian Gibson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwg1974@yahoo.com">bwg1974@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>> <font size="2">In learning to program, can you get someone else to help debug the programs...?<br><br>Yes. The actual process of explaining your code to someone else often helps to highlight where you made your mistake.<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Louis Miller <<a href="mailto:veganguy@canadaseek.com" target="_blank">veganguy@canadaseek.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> clue <<a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sun, May 15, 2011 1:40:31 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [clue] debuging programs<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2">Hello,</font><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"> I'm working on the fourth program from the "Learn Python the Hard Way" book. It isn't working, right. In learning to program, can you get someone else to help debug the programs, or to see that you typed everything correctly, or are you supposed to be all on your own? If it is not inappropriate to get help with this, then how would I go about finding someone online? Maybe, there is a program that compares lines of text, automatically, that you can use?</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Louis</font></div><br> <br><hr><span>Get email for your site ---> <a href="http://www.canadaseek.com" target="_blank">http://www.canadaseek.com</a></span></div>
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