[Courses] [C Programming] Anyone still here?

[Poppy]

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:40, Jenn Vesperman wrote:

> If you're math-phobic, though, start by thinking about recipes. As in
> cooking.
> 
> In making a meal, you're starting with inputs: veg, meat, grains (rice,
> pasta, bread?), herbs and spices.
> You need to define the desired outputs: lasagne? roghan josh? irish
> stew?

Now I'm drifting off-topic, but I'm really pondering now the impact that
my preferred manner of cooking has on my ability to code well (note: not
code at all, I'm pretty sure I could write something. Whether it works
or not is questionable, and it certainly wouldn't be pretty)

I start with a basic ingredient: pasta, or chicken, or spinach, that I
want to have today. Investigate cupboard until I something looks
interesting. Throw it in. Continue until suddenly overwhelmed with the
amount of stuff in tonights dinner. Cook.

*ponders* Guess I'd wind up trying to write a program based on a line of
code that looked useful, stuff it with other stuff that looks like it
should work, and stop when I realize that I can't read through the
program anymore.

Hrm. It's a good thing I'm more interested in testing.*big grin*

--Poppy

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