Paging all BARF nerds (Programming)

[NorCalAthlete]

Also, imposter syndrome is fucking real. I'm a senior graduating in May and I have no clue how I've made it this far. But then I go look at some of the intro class assignments and go "oh hey, I DO remember some of that and I can do this, this, sorta that, etc". At the time though? "Hey, let's throw some jumbled shit at the code wall and see what sticks."

Side note - I've learned at LEAST as much from people graduating ahead of me or other BARFers and friends who have been SEs and such for years, as I did from any of my professors. If not more. Not sure if you've covered the concept of paired programming yet but I learn far better from watching someone code / stumbling through coding with them correcting me over my shoulder and laying out a framework for me. Death by powerpoint is just painfully boring. Also, group projects are awesome - even when you're not supposed to work together. Shit clicks a lot easier when you realize your classmates all came to the same wrong conclusions together, and then you figure out the right ways together.

 

[ScarySpikes]

Also, imposter syndrome is fucking real. I'm a senior graduating in May and I have no clue how I've made it this far. But then I go look at some of the intro class assignments and go "oh hey, I DO remember some of that and I can do this, this, sorta that, etc". At the time though? "Hey, let's throw some jumbled shit at the code wall and see what sticks."

Side note - I've learned at LEAST as much from people graduating ahead of me or other BARFers and friends who have been SEs and such for years, as I did from any of my professors. If not more. Not sure if you've covered the concept of paired programming yet but I learn far better from watching someone code / stumbling through coding with them correcting me over my shoulder and laying out a framework for me. Death by powerpoint is just painfully boring. Also, group projects are awesome - even when you're not supposed to work together. Shit clicks a lot easier when you realize your classmates all came to the same wrong conclusions together, and then you figure out the right ways together.

Yea, I just got through one of the many bootcamp programs that are popping up. Impostor syndrome combined with the general stress of job hunting is doing a number on me currently.

Paired programming is quite good though. It makes any project go easier and makes the learning process smoother.

 

[Chris_BR]

For DevOps, it's mostly deploying updates, keeping things up and running, monitoring servers and preparing for rollouts. At least that's what I did when I did DevOps years ago.

As for your app, let me know how it works.

You sir will get a private beta if/when I make it happen

Also, imposter syndrome is fucking real. I'm a senior graduating in May and I have no clue how I've made it this far. But then I go look at some of the intro class assignments and go "oh hey, I DO remember some of that and I can do this, this, sorta that, etc". At the time though? "Hey, let's throw some jumbled shit at the code wall and see what sticks."

Side note - I've learned at LEAST as much from people graduating ahead of me or other BARFers and friends who have been SEs and such for years, as I did from any of my professors. If not more. Not sure if you've covered the concept of paired programming yet but I learn far better from watching someone code / stumbling through coding with them correcting me over my shoulder and laying out a framework for me. Death by powerpoint is just painfully boring. Also, group projects are awesome - even when you're not supposed to work together. Shit clicks a lot easier when you realize your classmates all came to the same wrong conclusions together, and then you figure out the right ways together.

Impostor syndrome is very real. I remember I snagged an interview at npm last year, and all I could think about during the technical was how much of a fraud I was. Luckily the engineer interviewing me was one of the kindest people on the planet, and kept reassuring me that I was qualified to be interviewing. I still don't think I was at the time. I didn't get the internship but the team there is fantastically pleasant.

I think I'm giving less fucks about how retarded I may sound or how unqualified I am because the stress was really getting to me. I recently joined my city's free code camp meetup and am scheduled to give errryone an overview on how to git so I guess how well I do there will tell me if this giving no shits business is working.

I'm trying to pair, but no one wants to pair with me gosh darnit. I go to school online so my cat is generally the one looking over my shoulder while I code, but I think I've found a guinea pig to do it with.

I am in DevOps right now, and that's a lot of it. I also write a lot of internal tooling (Python mainly) used by developers and to further automate things.

You see, this may be for me due to the fact that an empty project always scares me.

Yea, I just got through one of the many bootcamp programs that are popping up. Impostor syndrome combined with the general stress of job hunting is doing a number on me currently.

Paired programming is quite good though. It makes any project go easier and makes the learning process smoother.

Oh snaps! I almost went the bootcamp route, but it was just too expensive for my penniless pockets.

Maybe we should organize a BARF hackathon so that we can make some cool tools for avid barfeurs.

 

[Bassem]

Also, imposter syndrome is fucking real. I'm a senior graduating in May and I have no clue how I've made it this far. But then I go look at some of the intro class assignments and go "oh hey, I DO remember some of that and I can do this, this, sorta that, etc". At the time though? "Hey, let's throw some jumbled shit at the code wall and see what sticks."

Side note - I've learned at LEAST as much from people graduating ahead of me or other BARFers and friends who have been SEs and such for years, as I did from any of my professors. If not more. Not sure if you've covered the concept of paired programming yet but I learn far better from watching someone code / stumbling through coding with them correcting me over my shoulder and laying out a framework for me. Death by powerpoint is just painfully boring. Also, group projects are awesome - even when you're not supposed to work together. Shit clicks a lot easier when you realize your classmates all came to the same wrong conclusions together, and then you figure out the right ways together.

You're welcome. Now go get a well paying job and buy me dinner.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

You're welcome. Now go get a well paying job and buy me dinner.

/\ Learned more from this guy than entire semesters' worth of powerpoint slides.


"No, fuck that you're overcomplicating this shit. Look, KISS principle, bam, code that."

"....well fuck, when you put it that way it makes perfect sense. Why the fuck couldn't my prof just say that?" *grumbles and codes* "hey, got 95/100 on that one...sweet!" etc.

The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

 

[Caddywumpus]

Just came out of the wired sex thread and read pegging...

 

[Chris_BR]

Just came out of the wired sex thread and read pegging...

Excuse me while I peg... head check out that thread.