I agree that programming is related to intelligence. I'm in a Mac
User club and only 2 of the 50 members show interest in programming.
We once organised a workshop about RB , but from the very first moment
all lost the pedals, an evaluation showed that all this people
used their Mac for email , some word editing and music. They had
proffessions situated in the middle class.
I'm almost 40, but since the introduction of the ATARI and gfa basic ,
i bought handbooks to study coding.
I spend a lot of evenings reading in Matt's book, on the internet (rbu)
and so on. Since a have a fulltime job , i felt that to have a
succesfull programming evening, , i had to have a clear mind, it
brings me nowhere when my head is full of the bogus that happened that
day.
Someone told me to take supplements omega 3 en 6, to clear the mind and
to encourage the data flow in the brain. And it helps , it's like
i see the light in the tunnel, when for the zillionth time i read the
pages about class pointers repointing to pointers etc...
But in all these years i have never finished a project, and thats
because they say ; the sky is the limit. My sky is fairly limited. In
other
words , why reinventing the wheel, why trying to code a menu item
dynamic? It has been done for you. Over and over.
In fact, to make a project , you have to know all the possibilities the
language offers, menu's , windows, input, output, graphics ....
And the problem is , even when you read about all topics, there is
always a point where you forget that something can be done in one or
the other way.
And yes , you'll have to spend a lot of time behind the RB IDE, better
, in a regular (daily) way, because after a few weeks the ritme and
continuity is lost...its' like a diesel engine, hard to find the ritme
again, something not so obvious for a full time employe, who also has
to think to take care about this social entourage.
I also felt that programming is not a thing you should do alone. It's
a lot more fun to discuss the code with a friend then to write down the
code.
But as i said , there are no much such fish in the big ocean.....
P
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