Hey there I am Mads
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Hey people
My name is Mads, and I'm rather new here. First time venturing into the forums, else I have just had fun with the problems.
I'm currently studying software on Aalborg University in Denmark, 3rd semester. As such, my programming knowledge is limited to C, C# and somewhat C++ :P
I started getting interested in programming when playing with the Warcraft III world editor, game maker, and minecraft/computercraft. Then I started coding some C++ for fun, and ended up on the UNI.
Feel free to ask me anything you want to know.
Funny story, I had just spent 15+ minutes formulating a plea for help with the Safe Landing problem (5% off), when I see my little tiny mistake. In conclusion, I trashed everything I had written :P
I trust you landed safely? :)
Welcome to the site, hope you have fun and maybe learn a few things. I know I did.
Hi Mads, thanks for your post :)
Really, funny story! We call this phenomenon Rubber Duck Debugging - or often "Teddy Bear Debugging" here in Russia. The tradition says that every programmer should have a small teddy bear at the working place. When feeling completely stuck, the last resort is to put the bear in front of you and explain to it the trouble in the very detailed manner...
Though more often it looks like this - you come to some colleague, start relating him all details - then suddenly you feel enlightened and say "Oh, chap, thank you for being teddy bear for five minutes, ha-ha" - and you happily leave your colleague while he probably even still could not understand what you were trying to relate him :)
Hello Mads! I like C# too, but I have to learn Java now. My Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/vadim.tukaev
"My cat, as it turns out, is an excellent debugger, and she has helped me solve a number of nasty bugs when I talked to her about them." — John Robbins, Debugging Applications, Microsoft Press, 2000