How Technically Savvy Are You?
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Topic: How Technically Savvy Are You?
Posted By: Failcore
Subject: How Technically Savvy Are You?
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:42
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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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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:44
| Examples of an "Advanced" task? |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:45
| Installing drivers/software, tweaking stuff. Fixing minor errors that you run into, that sort of thing. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:51
| 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. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:52
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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. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:52
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:52
| @ Orb -What language did you work with? |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:54
Well, you'd be surprised. My grandparents can't work their Ipod without an hour long conversation with me on every single mouse click they should make in iTunes. |
Petrovsk Mizinski wrote:Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:55
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Haha, you quoted my post before I got to finish editing. Hate it when that happens. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 07:59
| 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. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:01
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. |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:03
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. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:07
| 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. |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:13
| 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.) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:23
I'd say a 2, which is good, since it stops me from being an idiot .
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 08:34
I'm an IT professional specializing in web-applications ... I guess I could hack you if I wanted to.
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 10:45
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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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Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 13:01
| 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. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 13:03
Technology hates me... What have I ever done to it?
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 13:31
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Now let's all wait for Vibrationbaby to post... ...if he manages to  |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 14:08
| I am actually in networking in college, myself. I have programming/script editing experience, via .net and others. I also have some web design under my belt. Years of repair and IT experience, and a complex working knowledge of the internet and its facets. I could say a solid 4(possibly rounded up from a high three). 5? no, as I am still in the learning process of most higher functioning things. Plus, I hate subnetting. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 14:27
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I guess I'm close to Pat and Mike though in conversations with both of them on the forum Mike is years a head of me on software and Pat could run rings around me on hardware.
I'm an electronics engineer specialising in mixed signal and DSP, covering frequencies from just below RF down to subsonics. Software forms a major part of what I do, but it is only a tool needed to do my job much like a 'scope or a spectrum analyser is. I have tried chip design using Verilog in the past but I wasn't quite smart enough (okay at layout though). I'm an IT manager by default on a mixed PC and Sun network and I hate it - brain the size of a planet, been on MCP courses, can build servers from scratch and all I do is change frigging ink cartridges.
I can program machine code and assembler for Z80 and 680x0 processors, but lost interest when the 80186 came along so I've never really bothered learning the ins and outs of programming the PC to that depth, but find VisualBasic does most of what I need on that platform. C is a doddle, C++ and C# have the ability to do my head in at times so I have a bad habit of dropping into C when I get lost, but generally I can fumble my way around.
On this scale I'd say I'm 4.8 since I may have been able to hack at sometime in the dim and distant past, or not, but you can't prove anything and I'll deny it anyway and I may have been involved in cracking at sometime too, or I may not, again, you can't prove anything, and if you can then it wasn't me. Okay?
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 15:13
I am about to start college for programming, but I know some VB6 which was kind of useless except to teach basic programming skills, and I have been playing with python for a while, which is fun. I can make a basic looking html page with CSS as long as I have w3schools open, but I never properly learned anything about that, I just spent a week following examples and learning some syntax. Over the summer before school starts I think I will start into C++ or java, I learn more from experimenting on my own anyway. As far as networking is concerned I don't know anything, mostly because I have never learned anything about it, and as far as "hacking" is concerned I don't know anything about that either, but I have my eyes on a book that teaches some pretty useful stuff.  |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 21:36
| It seems we have quite a few geeks here! I was just wondering about the correlation of progger and tech geek. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 21:46
| I suppose that I'm a 2, but as a little kid, I was above all my friends, a real nerd, to say the least, was playing all the games and knew every stuff, that my friends are doing right now :P |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 25 2009 at 22:29
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Sweet, I get to the be the first 1. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 03:03
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I'm a 2 as well.
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 03:37
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I'm a 2 also. Most people that know me IRL probably think I'm a PC geek because I can fix their problems, show them how to use programs and complete tasks, and install hardware. I try to teach them good habits that will keep them problem free. My knowledge isn't very deep though and my interest in computing is only specific to any goal I need to achieve.
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 04:22
| That's about how I was before I started college. If if didn't help me, I didn't learn it. Come to think of it, I still kinda am that way, although now I will occasionally go off and learn something that I find interesting. I'm also going to build a zelda deathmatch in QT this summer. Should be fun. |
Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 05:25
| I have a BCompSc and specialise in watching progress bars move across the screen. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 06:48
Please see the above. I understand nothing of that post - not a jot - nada - zilch - I thought C++ was the autocensor kicking in 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 08:03
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I can program reasonably well in the languages I know. Would probably say a 3.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 08:58
I used to be quite proficient in VHDL (similar to Verilog in its goal, anyways) - I programmed a complete radar processing subsystem on FPGAs in that language as my first job out of college. Sadly, programming is like any other learned language - if you don't use it, you lose it, and at this point it's been so many years since I sat down to write a piece of VHDL code that I'd almost have to learn from scratch.
Which I'm sure you were doing when I was still in nappies. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 11:33
Our company needed another IC Designer so they basically sat me in front of the design software and took photographs
 . Most of our work is at transistor-level and I hadn't done anything that low level in 20 years - as you said - if you don't use it, you lose it and I lost it some time ago.
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 11:35
| Ouch, Solid State math is an utter bitch from hell. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 21:15
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I can't program a VCR, though I'm fairly familiar with T-SQL, etc.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: April 27 2009 at 23:13
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 28 2009 at 01:58
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Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: April 28 2009 at 02:22
| I'm so useless I can't even fix my broken avatar. |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: April 28 2009 at 02:44
I take it this guy is some sort of modern day Luddite? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 28 2009 at 04:54
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 28 2009 at 06:04
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