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Poll Question: Rate you skillzzz
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17 [48.57%]
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    Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:42
I'm just curious how experienced everybody is with tech. I'm a CPE Major a year away from graduating, so I'm about a 4.25 on the above scale, so I rounded to 4. I could probably be a 5 if I wanted, but I'm fairly lazy.
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Examples of an "Advanced" task?
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Installing drivers/software, tweaking stuff. Fixing minor errors that you run into, that sort of thing.
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Yeah, I'm definitely a 2, then. Did some very basic programming a bit back, and I don't have any trouble doing anything I need to short of that.
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That's advanced? (Installing drivers etc?)
Christ, any idiot can do that, lol.
I thought that was the absolute minimum you needed to know to be honest, so I learnt stuff. It seems to work, my computer has been problem free since I got it in December 2007.
I sure as hell can't hack though, but to be fair computers are not a big interest of mine, so it's not something I'm interesting in learning all that much. I could handle a little basic programming, but haven't done much lately.
I used to create my own maps for Quake II FWIW, I guess that's not totally beginner stuff.
Vote of 2 for me.


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@ Orb -What language did you work with?

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Originally posted by Petrovsk Mizinski Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:

That's advanced? (Installing drivers etc?)
That's advanced? (Installing drivers etc?)
Christ, any idiot can do that, lol.
I thought that was the absolute minimum you needed to know to be honest, so I learnt stuff. It seems to work, my computer has been problem free since I got it in December 2007.
I sure as hell can't hack though, but to be fair computers are not a big interest of mine, so it's not something I'm interesting in learning all that much. I could handle a little basic programming, but haven't done much lately.
I used to create my own maps for Quake II FWIW, I guess that's not totally beginner stuff.
Vote of 2 for me.

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Haha, you quoted my post before I got to finish editing. Hate it when that happens.
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A high 2, I'd say. I've done some html programming and tried to learn "real" programming several times (C++, Pascal, Basic etc.) without success.
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Originally posted by Deathrabbit Deathrabbit wrote:

@ Orb -What language did you work with?


Was screwing around at a pretty basic level with C++... the CDs I've got for that have stopped working, though, and I was never particularly good at it.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

A high 2, I'd say. I've done some html programming and tried to learn "real" programming several times (C++, Pascal, Basic etc.) without success.

I'm a C++ man, myself, but I've used PHP, TCL/TK, QT, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, and others. I've basically done enough programming that if you give me a reference page and an example or two, I can figure it out pretty quickly. All programming follows the same logic more or less. Well, really high-level stuff like HTML is different. And so is low-level stuff like assembly. But in general, it's all very similar.
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Well, I'm an electrical engineer, not a programmer, so I'm an expert in MATLAB and a novice in C (haven't had to write many C programs, really).  So a 4 for this poll, but a 5 in overall tech geekiness, I'd say.
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Ah, well hardware counts too if that's what you're good at. I'm decent at HDL and basic analog circuit theory and digital logic concepts, but I'd have to brush up on it if you wanted me to make anything more complicated than a mux (or a simple power supply on the analog side.)
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I'd say a 2, which is good, since it stops me from being an idiotLOL.
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I'm an IT professional specializing in web-applications ... I guess I could hack you if I wanted to.Wink
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I'm about a 3. II mean, I have made my own viruses in the past for my own amusement (they are deleted from my system now), and I'm pretty familiar with ms-dos format (command prompt), but I can't do any programming or anything like that.
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I'm a computer science major, so everyone assumes I know a lot about computers, but I never know the kinds of things people expect me to.  I could write some complex algorithms, give you a good software design for your system, and probably even build a computer out of NAND gates, but I dont know a damn thing about how to fix your computer, install drivers, or what kind of graphics card you should buy.  As for hacking, I wouldnt have a clue even if I wanted to try to do that kind of thing.  If im going to have to install drivers or something like that, windows better walk me through everything or ill have no clue.  Its really sad when you look at how I can know so much about computers and yet so little.
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Technology hates me...Cry What have I ever done to it?
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