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Sin_of_Onin  Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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I like if statements but I have never been trained in programming language/syntax. When working with programmers I can usually tell them what the logic is. Translating business practice to logical code is probably going to be my career niche.
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Taliesihne Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
I like if statements but I have never been trained in programming language/syntax. When working with programmers I can usually tell them what the logic is. Translating business practice to logical code is probably going to be my career niche.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
Learn this if you haven't already.
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Got years I lived and breathed coding. It was not a job it was a way to play a game all day. Then after 5 years I got burnt out and now have not done any coding in years.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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In PowerShell!
Fist_de_Yuma posted:
If (User.Name -ne 'Fisted Puma' 
{
User.Politics = 'LIBERALZ'
write-wharbargl
}
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Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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No one should learn that. 
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Taliesihne posted:
Sin_of_Onin posted:
I like if statements but I have never been trained in programming language/syntax. When working with programmers I can usually tell them what the logic is. Translating business practice to logical code is probably going to be my career niche.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
Learn this if you haven't already.
Learning something like that seems inevitable but so far I have been able to get by making other people do the grunt work.
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i haven't seen UML since college. programming was like physics for me. started out difficult then one day i just got it. the light bulb came on and it's been easy ever since.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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I can gear up and slog my way through code others have written to get a sense of what they're doing, once I spend a month or two in the space (I don't do code scans much any more, as a management poser).
However, I was lucky that in my early days I worked with some brilliant programmers. Two things became clear:
1) I'll never, ever be as good as them. Even on their worst day.
2) I don't want to be in a career where I'm a sub-par also-ran.
Sooooo I didn't get deep into programming. I went network deployment/design, db admin, etc.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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I just finished up a small VBA project to monitor email alerts. It's easy enough to keep up on the alerts that I receive, but I sometimes don't realize when an expected system-generated email doesn't show up at all, and those are usually the ones I need to follow up on the most. So now all my email alerts write to a text file, which is a data source for a spreadsheet that gives me a red/green status on whether the message passed and whether it was received on time. 
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eodoll Posts: 1,028
Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
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Its very hard at first but gets easy when you figure it out.
Like any language... Youre probably more hung up in the grammar/vocabulary than the actual complexity of the softwatre if youre talking about college level programming.
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