On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice
programming-related job next year. I've never had a programming
job,
most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as
drilling
through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air
conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and
electrical work, and stuff like that.
I'm actually baffled to hear that someone of your caliber has is
not a professional programmer. Passion and theory alone will only
get you so far... (IMO).
So, I hope you land yourself that job.
I also want to and plan to study algorithms this year. Whenever
some
algorithm-related discussion popped up in the newsgroups I would
typically avoid giving any input as most of the conversation
would go
over my head. But I'm gonna bite down and study hard, I really
want to
"grok" it.
Algorithms are a major branch of programming, and, IMO, one of
the funnest ones to study. Having solid knowledge of all the
major algorithms (as well as data structures in general, they are
also "forms" of algorithms) will *always* help you tremendously,
no matter what you are doing.
I (personally) really enjoy thinking in terms of "complexity" (in
operations or memory), "worst case complexity" or "amortized
cost".
Having a background in math helps, but if you don't have it, it
means ever more stuff to learn! Learning is fun.
> My first mini-geek is due in June :D
Awesome! So it's a he?
Who said girls can't be geeks? Seriously though, I don't know yet.
