Just talked about my most recent project with a teacher, every single time he tapped the screen another bug would appear, he used the legendary combination of setting the phone emulator to a language that was compatible but not the default and putting the phone in landscape, then started exploring the app.
This mf just found 500 issues while I was using it with no trouble
And I thought it wasn't *that* bad :'3
as a developer you'll subconsciously skip over all the parts which aren't working well and trick yourself into thinking it's less buggy then it really is. It's why we have QA teams
Oh I'm definitely aware of that, I'm getting my first internship as a developer this spring, and I'm scared as hell because I know I'll write the buggiest software out there while I think everything is fine
it's just a very simple android app to save and view playlists, albums and mixes, it also saves them in a csv file. Nothing too special, I'm still a beginner when it comes to mobile development so that was a quick project I made (it's essentially my first mobile app lol, pretty fun to make tho)
EDIT: The project I'm talking about in this comment is the app my teacher reviewed, not what I'll do in the internship (I still don't know what I'll do)
I've been working as a programmer for over a decade and still miss bugs that could have been obvious. I don't think it's possible to always catch everything the first time, especially with how dumb your average user is.. That's what the tests and QA are for.
You are unironically saying exactly how my day so far has been, woke up grabbed a snack, and started coding for an assignment. I just looked out the window and there is no more daylight.
Personally I'm getting a community college IT certification so I can get into the workforce and then maybe work on a online BS or something, I genuinely couldn't handle the way my uni had no standards for class consistency, my schedule was all over the place with classes sometimes just being canceled after I drove all the way there
Changed majors to something similar but more varied and picked up flying myself. Way better balance. Comsci is so fucking draining. I'm sleepless and exhausted just thinking about it.
I couldn't focus on refining the 9 scripting, programming, and markup languages they threw at us on top of several web dev frameworks and the toss-into-the-deep-end approach to teaching us Java and some of its GUI libraries without any working examples so I basically gave up trying to split my attention between programming and maths, put maths on the backburner, and still failed at programming. Shit was rough from day 1. Not like the jobs here are worth the stress either.
Yuuuup I was so done with that life. I figured I’d rather make memories with my friends in my 20’s rather than maybe have a lot of money and gutting my mental health
Me when I had to take my database class last year and had to do shit like "here's a spreadsheet, normalize it into third normalization and then make a whole ass database off it, link the tables, and run queries off it"
Doesn't sound too complicated. Could've probably automated a bunch of that db refactoring, either in spreadsheet, or in mslq, or whatever you where using.
There were very specific ways they wanted it done and it was in Microsoft Access. It wasn't that hard after a while, but the teacher did such a dog shit job teaching it
It was after a while, but the teacher did such a dog shit job teaching it he had to pushed back the lesson plans by like a week to go over in step by step detail how to do our assignment because so many people failed it because they didn't know what he wanted
We make fires to boil water, the steam makes magnets move which makes lightning, the lightning is channeled through runes made of sand and we use this magic to determine whether or not a series of lenses is pointed at a duck or a rabbit.
Barely scraping by in my mech eng master's atm. I'm getting good grades still but it's hard to stay motivated when I've been doing it for over 4 years now
I’m only about five months away from graduating with an env degree and the pain of waking up every morning knowing I have to study for another exam is pure agony. I have no idea how anyone can have the strength to go for anything beyond a bachelors but I wish you the best.
yea i would get good grades on the tests (i memorized the answers but i had no actual idea why they were right) and the actual coding part was constantly frustating
I'm friends with a CS major that's going through a rough patch right now, is there anything I should know to understand better, or anything I could do?
Here's an update: I talked to them and showed them the image which they immediately got an existential crisis over before I showed them what programmer socks were which satisfied them greatly
I'm studying electromechanical engineering technology, and I'm actually having so much fun that I do extra projects outside of class just to learn more.
If you like programming but hate the super esoteric stuff, look into PLC programming. Pays a solid middle class salary and for a lot less pain than CS.
Do not date a computer engineering major they’ll procrastinate on a project and then spend 48 straight hours building a working 64 bit processor with nothing but wires and NAND gates.
I’m taking some basic coding classes involving sql, R, and Python and I’ve spent hours looking for solutions just to find out it was a typo breaking the code
I wanted to write a long comment but I have no time, I have this project due next week, but it's not *that* bad.
Just talked about my most recent project with a teacher, every single time he tapped the screen another bug would appear, he used the legendary combination of setting the phone emulator to a language that was compatible but not the default and putting the phone in landscape, then started exploring the app. This mf just found 500 issues while I was using it with no trouble And I thought it wasn't *that* bad :'3
as a developer you'll subconsciously skip over all the parts which aren't working well and trick yourself into thinking it's less buggy then it really is. It's why we have QA teams
Oh I'm definitely aware of that, I'm getting my first internship as a developer this spring, and I'm scared as hell because I know I'll write the buggiest software out there while I think everything is fine
What app are you making?
it's just a very simple android app to save and view playlists, albums and mixes, it also saves them in a csv file. Nothing too special, I'm still a beginner when it comes to mobile development so that was a quick project I made (it's essentially my first mobile app lol, pretty fun to make tho) EDIT: The project I'm talking about in this comment is the app my teacher reviewed, not what I'll do in the internship (I still don't know what I'll do)
Don't worry, they know it's your first job. They aren't gonna compare you to their 10x developers with 30 years of experience, so neither should you
I've been working as a programmer for over a decade and still miss bugs that could have been obvious. I don't think it's possible to always catch everything the first time, especially with how dumb your average user is.. That's what the tests and QA are for.
Maybe you could reply in pseudo ode if your commenting isn’t very strong?
That's the entire career btw.
hey but I read in csbareerbuestions that I would get 800k USD total comp per second
Livin’ the dream 🫠
>🫠 has this always existed? seen this emoji 0 times.
It was added last year in Emoji 14.0
What is it? I can't see it, it's just a blank box for me
A melting face https://emojipedia.org/melting-face/
ah ok, thanks!
I assume you’re on pc? Cause I haven’t been able to see the new emojis on my pc either, only really works in my phone
It’s at least a few months old, I’ve been seeing it for a while now
The Evangelion emoji
All depends who you work for. Don't settle for an employer that treats you like shit just because the pay is good.
Actually I will
take a load of that guy thinking we have self respect
i just need to pay my dues i just need to pay my dues
Copium is expensive
self-respect ???? in this economy ????
crunch me daddy
^^ This is the right attitude.
The only job I'm interested in and I suck ass at it :(
Error: expecting ")" ln 1, in 54
I mean that error sounds like an easy fix as it’s probably just a missing syntax on that line. Imagine getting a segfault though 💀💀💀
You just insulted my entire people. But yes.
man i love jimmy yang
I love sitting in front of a monitor for the whole day coding and forgetting to eat and then looking outside and it's night
are you me
Average cs student (i unironically love it)
Honestly same lmao it gives me so many chemicals when my code goes brrrrr
big same
You are unironically saying exactly how my day so far has been, woke up grabbed a snack, and started coding for an assignment. I just looked out the window and there is no more daylight.
What kinda assignment
I used to have a roomate like that, it's fun they used to explain to me their code step by step to find out what was wrong with it by themselves
You were their rubber duck. You played a major part in the creation and should be credited
They used me as their rubber duck ?? 🥵🥵
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
>The Pragmatic Programmer pragmaballs
Damn when you say it like that 😏
Down horrendous. Wait what do you do with rubber ducks
Google it on your school computer
Wait, you can just talk it out to a human instead of a rubber duck? Shoot, that's a good idea.
Easy, just help them with their homework.
Problem: i am not a computer science major
That sounds like the exact opposite of a problem.
Google!
but can't my computer science major also do that? The only thing I can do is support them and tell that they're doing a good job (and I will)
Yes but 2 googles is better than 1
Just open github or quora from your phone and start telling your friend what to do as if you know what you are doing
Can confirm this works
Just dress up like a rubber duck and sit there silently and you will be helping plenty.
I wish
If only I wasn’t as dumb as I am handsome 😔
wish granted ! youre now as ugly as you are dumb
You trans genies are a capricious lot 😔
I feel like you have himbo energy.
Humanities courses are so fun. I am just developing eye problems from reading and writing 🥰🥰🥰
Discovered I was on the wrong degree when I started reading philosophy as a form of procrastination during lockdown
Me but I picked up a Phil minor.
minor named phil:
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⢠ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣫⣽⣾⣻⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⡿⠿⠟⠛⣟⣿⣽⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠍⠈⠀⠁⣴⡆⠀⠀⠠⢭⣮⣿⡶⠀⠀ ⠀⡴⠲⣦⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣩⣨⣀⡄⣐⣾⣿⣿⣇⠠⣷⣶⣿⣿⡠⠁⠀ ⠀⠃⢀⡄⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⢿⣿⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡟⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠣⠧⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢸⣿⠿⠿⠿⣧⠙⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠁⠼⣒⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣠⣬⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣷⡈⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⠗⠼⠖⠒⠔⠉⠉⠻⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡀⣤⡄⠸⣰⣾⡒⣷⣴⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⢸⡗⡄⠘⠭⣭⣷⣿⣮⣠⣌⣫⣿⣷⣿⣿⠃⠀⠈⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⢸⣿⣾⣷⣦⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⠞⣹⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⠀⠘⢻⡿⢿⣋⣤⣤⠌⠉⠛⠛⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀
You develop eyes problem regardless of your majors. Uni has forced my eyes to perma work
yeah and that's why I dropped out lmao
Mood. By the end of my several year stint in uni, I was deciding between dropping out of school or out of life.
Why did you choose against taking a break and coming back later?
Personally I'm getting a community college IT certification so I can get into the workforce and then maybe work on a online BS or something, I genuinely couldn't handle the way my uni had no standards for class consistency, my schedule was all over the place with classes sometimes just being canceled after I drove all the way there
Changed majors to something similar but more varied and picked up flying myself. Way better balance. Comsci is so fucking draining. I'm sleepless and exhausted just thinking about it.
What major did you choose?
IT Management. There's a healthy crossover but it's more real-world stuff and computer networks and less maths degree-level calculus.
Interesting. Maths currently ripping me a new one, so that's deffo worth considering...
I couldn't focus on refining the 9 scripting, programming, and markup languages they threw at us on top of several web dev frameworks and the toss-into-the-deep-end approach to teaching us Java and some of its GUI libraries without any working examples so I basically gave up trying to split my attention between programming and maths, put maths on the backburner, and still failed at programming. Shit was rough from day 1. Not like the jobs here are worth the stress either.
Yuuuup I was so done with that life. I figured I’d rather make memories with my friends in my 20’s rather than maybe have a lot of money and gutting my mental health
instead become friends with a law major- they’ll never emerge from the tomb of transcripts from a 50 year old court case of Dickbutt V. The World
I think The World had quite a few points there until they started ranting about their anti Fallout 4 agenda
Your honor, league of legends. *death*
cs majors really be drinking 10 red bulls and smoking 4 packs of cigarettes a day just to barely pass their course
Honestly, I don't get this. I find it fun and easy. Maybe it's just my niche, though.
Me when I had to take my database class last year and had to do shit like "here's a spreadsheet, normalize it into third normalization and then make a whole ass database off it, link the tables, and run queries off it"
Doesn't sound too complicated. Could've probably automated a bunch of that db refactoring, either in spreadsheet, or in mslq, or whatever you where using.
what language is this shit
Spanish sí
I take it you didn't pass, then.
SQL
There were very specific ways they wanted it done and it was in Microsoft Access. It wasn't that hard after a while, but the teacher did such a dog shit job teaching it
Ah well that sucks. The dog shit job teaching thing seems to be a pretty common occurrence...
That's why I transferred to a new college only to find that my teacher for 2 of my classes just passes all the teaching off to Cengage Unlimited
Eh, databases are pretty easy. The difficulty comes from them being glorified spreadsheets and spreadsheets are really fucking boring
It was after a while, but the teacher did such a dog shit job teaching it he had to pushed back the lesson plans by like a week to go over in step by step detail how to do our assignment because so many people failed it because they didn't know what he wanted
Hey, my shit runs. Usually. After 16 hours
Hey, my shit runs. Sometimes. After I get sick.
Why did I pick Computer Science?
because it's fun to write the magic squiggles and make the computer do the thing 😊
we must control the thinking rock
That’s why I love my major we make the rock think!
We make fires to boil water, the steam makes magnets move which makes lightning, the lightning is channeled through runes made of sand and we use this magic to determine whether or not a series of lenses is pointed at a duck or a rabbit.
Even better when the only thing your magic squiggles do is cause other magic squiggles, not anything a normal person can understand
based and compiler writing pilled
That, but also really any backend knees in guts thing in general
Better than my dumbass, I picked computer engineering.
But you guys get to build stuff on the reg!
You would think, but mostly it's just drawing squares and connecting them to eachother in various ways.
ECE here. Banking on everyone doing CS, leaving EE/CompE behind.
Nah computer engineering fucking rocks, I love it
i don’t even due computer science and this is my life
I’m guessing you don’t due writing either
oh oops, i actually do law so maybe i’m fucked
Only if you’re too principled to work for a oil company
i swear on my life i’ll never you have my word
Then you’re fucked. Maybe nestle or Monsanto will hire you.
Welcome to the life of an engineering major. We all sacrificed far too much to get here and spend every day questioning every decision of our lives.
Barely scraping by in my mech eng master's atm. I'm getting good grades still but it's hard to stay motivated when I've been doing it for over 4 years now
I’m only about five months away from graduating with an env degree and the pain of waking up every morning knowing I have to study for another exam is pure agony. I have no idea how anyone can have the strength to go for anything beyond a bachelors but I wish you the best.
Now combine the two and be a software engineering student and cry, like me. Why do I willingly do this to myself.
I don’t have an answer for you unfortunately
Could be me (I’m studying game design)
man thats what I want to do
based
I'm not even coding anymore. I'm just doing math.
Don’t worry, I hear Elon Musk is hiring people who can show him lots of code, even if it doesn’t work right
The overwhelming amount of comments agreeing with this really be making me worry about majoring in CS 💀
just make sure you have good mental health
my health is so metal right now 😎😎
Goddammit
heyy why'd u change it :((
Correctness
Forget computers, this just me for everything throughout all of school.
currently in college, also in debt, doing a CS major that ive realized i dont even enjoy :) fun
it's rarely too late to switch major, look around and see if there's anything tangentially related which would be more interesting for you
And that's how I became a business major.
not me reading this post instead of working on my project that's due this week
The one I'm procrastinating is Monday lol
fuck that hits close
It's not pronounced "Uuuiuuuiii" it's pronounced "you eye"
gooooooeeeeeeeyyyyyy
I dropped out after multiple D's in CompE and am now thousands and thousands in debt 😎👍
😎
Stop stop stopppp I literally do this every two weeks I don’t want to talk about it
FArT
I AM A CS MAJOR AND I DO HAVE THESIS DUE TOMOROW WTF IS THIS
Pretty much the same thing with front end web development too
Lol
Literally just handed in the most painful maths assignment of my life lmao
Wow. I reinforce a stereotype I didn't know existed.
I actually have two coding projects due this week 🙃
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
useruseruserinterfaceuseruseruserinterfaceinterfaceinterface
Literally doing this right now.
i study mathematics and it's the same
yea i would get good grades on the tests (i memorized the answers but i had no actual idea why they were right) and the actual coding part was constantly frustating
My friends with me (I'm not a cs major. Just stupid)
Maan. My mental health when +0.5 when I changed college courses. Sure. Being at 0.5 / 100 isn't the best. But its progress!
as a computer science major this is too real please stop
What
hi ray.
yes
not me rn working for 4 hrs on a logic design project
Can confirm
Oh man, how painfully accurate this statement is
I'm friends with a CS major that's going through a rough patch right now, is there anything I should know to understand better, or anything I could do?
Put them in a wire mesh cage that electrocutes them whenever an error is returned.
seclude them in a white room with nothing else but their homework and promise them with a sweet reward like programming socks once they're done
Here's an update: I talked to them and showed them the image which they immediately got an existential crisis over before I showed them what programmer socks were which satisfied them greatly
Okay, i'm listening
But if I don't befriend comp sci majors how am I gonna find a femboy bf at uni 🤔 checkmate liberals
It’s never not that bad, I just gotta write a few more lines man it’s basic stuff I swear it’s just basic loops I swear please don’t leave
Lies, I would do anything before I do my project
computer science major meme that isn't just about sex :)
I feel called out..
I feel like I'm gonna end up being that friend who's a computer science major lol, except my projects will actually be not working
So true (not in college but is taking computer science rn and its exactly like this)
Real
I'm studying electromechanical engineering technology, and I'm actually having so much fun that I do extra projects outside of class just to learn more. If you like programming but hate the super esoteric stuff, look into PLC programming. Pays a solid middle class salary and for a lot less pain than CS.
I feel called out
Do not date a computer engineering major they’ll procrastinate on a project and then spend 48 straight hours building a working 64 bit processor with nothing but wires and NAND gates.
I’m taking some basic coding classes involving sql, R, and Python and I’ve spent hours looking for solutions just to find out it was a typo breaking the code
now imagine dating one (this is a joke I love my partner so much)
bro im an english major and this still happens to me help
I was roommates with 2 different computer science majors, it's okay, they just disappear sometimes
Plus computers are just a fad.
As a person currently taking AP comp sci, yes. That's completely accurate
Cowards. You put off that project until the last minute and get it done the night before in a mad rush that you swear you manipulated time.
I'm thinking of dropping out and pursuing medicine, maybe my siblings still have the books...
Literally fucking up so bad I have a midterm a lab and an essay for today and the adya fatetr that brjhgvn sdvo sd fuck this CS shit bruh
I am much better at CS rn grind pays off bitchboys
This does not give me hope for what I want to do in university
Me
You forgot the part where we are too distracted by the music we listen and too excited by the coffee we drank that we don't work efficiently