comp programming question

Is that a thing? practicing for conditions that will never happen in the real world?

I always used visual studio and never tried coding with notepad

iono maybe at the interview they bust out notepad? how should i know

I guess if you feel putting the time into it wouldn't hurt, don't know if you d actually ever have usage of it. Just edit your code in a way thats nice to read as its beneficial for everyone. I'm just getting into programming myself though. Also if you re gonna use notepad use notepad+ which has the lines numbered and a few other extracts and it was probably made for code writing

Also why java? Isn't java dead? JavaScript is the one thats being used, but I was told C# s arguably the best to start out with so thats what I'm doing

Use notepad++

I was taught C++ at first, then transitionned to C# myself.

Java is still huge. It's retarded to write java code in notepad as it's a language that is basically designed to be written in an IDE. Personally if you don't know what you want to specialize in I would recommend python as a good beginner language. Ultimately it doesn't really matter though. It's like sizing 2.5x or 3x otb one is probably better overall but it doesn't really mean jack shit, once you learn the fundamentals you will be able to transition between languages easily.

On September 22 2015 02:20 Rinny wrote: Java is still huge. It's retarded to write java code in notepad as it's a language that is basically designed to be written in an IDE. Personally if you don't know what you want to specialize in I would recommend python as a good beginner language. Ultimately it doesn't really matter though. It's like sizing 2.5x or 3x otb one is probably better overall but it doesn't really mean jack shit, once you learn the fundamentals you will be able to transition between languages easily.

yea it isn't as much about specific syntax or formatting as it is understanding how objects interact and how to use everything it seems like.

yeah if you have any other questions feel free to p.m me. the /r/learnprogramming is supposed to be good as well but I don't read it. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/ is good too but prepare to feel like shit reading about people getting 130k offers from a big 4 company lol

If you really want to prepare yourself for an interview, you'll learn how to solve these http://www.hackerrank.com and these http://www.topcoder.com

And, if you really want to solve those, you'll buy this: The Bible

Nice, solid sources to read stuff
Tnx guys

The syntax will probably come naturally with writing a bunch of programs, if not faster with a good IDE.
Do yourself a favor and get IntelliJ's IDE.

Writing programs in a text editor that isn't designed for programming isn't going to help you. I write in languages that I don't have the syntax memorized for all the time and it doesn't matter because of IDEs and Google.

i completed a degree in programming and i couldn't imagine myself programming a big program on a notepad. Once put into the IDE, it would be full of errors and wouldn't work for sure.

I don't even see the point of that.

Of course, in school, they sometimes ask you to program on your exam sheet, but errors are expected.

thanks guys.

trying to work with that ide IntelliJ but it is frustrating the fuck out of me lol

i'm too noob for it