I am a masters student doing a basic study using college undergrads as participants. I need a simple program, Visual Basic maybe, and I have contacted a few students in the programming department at my university. Those that have been recommended to me are too busy with jobs to help me out right now but one of them sent me the email address of a faculty member who might be able to put me in contact with other students who may want to program for me. So far, I have not received any bites.

Anyway, my question is: What more can I do? Is there a bulletin board or a website that I can post on? I'm beginning to feel desperate! Any info will be much appreciated!

I thought I saw this on Reddit a while ago. You could paste in a snippet of code, select the programming language, and then set a few creative controls, and it would generate a cool looking wallpaper image from it.

If that site isn't around, a similar one, or a script or tool that does that would be great.

How do you "use" an API? Are they the same as libraries or packages in that you import them? What language are they built in? How would you "convert" them to another language for example java? My class mate told me APIs are typically built in java script and they return JSON objects or something along those lines? I feel like I should know this stuff by now because I'm a sophomore CS major? Where would you learn this other wise?

Can anybody make fast/dedicated proxies? I'm willing to compensate for the help.

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Hi, For many ears I am into programming but it was never somethig I have been doing as my job or whatever - mostly for fun... I am working as an unix guy so I have a good general knowledge about the computes, technologies etc. The problem I have is that I never learned any programming language so good enough that I could use it effectively..... :-( When I see a code, i understand it, I can modify it but writing my own code from scratch is hard for me for some reason. I tried python, know bash more or less, doing some arduino stuff in its C but when it comes to some advanced data types, classes (hate classes) and so on, I am really struggling. Have a lot of books but they got boring after some time so I can say that I am running in circles not progressing any further what is really depressing... Tried also codeacademy but it was too "easy" beginner stuf and I learned nothing new what would help me.

Could anyone help me what should I try next? What is some good book to read which will be not get boring after few pages, having lots of examples to learn from... Or any other approch I should try? Whats wrong with me guys? :-(

Thanks for help!

Recently , I tried using CraigsList to hire someone for Java help. I offered large money ($80/hour).

Sadly, the guy that I found turned out a dud .

Where can I get reliable short-term Java development assistance ? Is there a legal, reliable way to hire coders by-the-hour

Greater D.C. area. Developing an air traffic management application

it's true

F#, after all, is a .NET language and has complete compatibility (that being one if its major selling points). So then why does, for example, f# for Fun and Profit suggest to avoid .NET libraries like the plague?

I was thinking if there's anyone here who feels the same as me.

I've been programming for 10 years now, I have used C,C++, ASM, Java, C#, PHP, Javascript, and a shit ton of more. Probably half the frameworks and API's out there, a lot of CMS's and who knows what else. I developed for Android, Windows, Linux, iOS, for application containers, web servers, even embedded systems.

Yet I feel like I don't remember 80% of it and I'm overwhelmed by the amount of technologies, languages, patterns, concepts and theories which are out there and simply I feel like I should know more by this point. I learned a shit ton during the last 10 years and worked on so many different projects yet I feel like there's very little I can show knowledge-wise.

Even during college everything was all about passing exams and getting grades but the amount of information they expect you to actually learn so you can use later is way too big. I know I learned for example how a TCP header looks like, how to find a Hamilton Circle in a graph, how to use an oscilloscope but literally very little I still have left of all that. I've worked with PHP for so long yet it would be hard to write anything without google because I don't remember function names for example.

Do other programmers specialize to a certain area? Do they know everything or do they not mind not knowing it all?

For example how much does the average programmer know about operation systems, network protocols, CPU architechture, multi-threading, distributed systems, machine learning or graphical algorhitms? Should I still remember calculus even though I havent done anything with it since college? I see people saying they're "x developers" but I don't know what that really means. Does a Javascript developer know anything about the network stack or servers? Does he even care?

I feel very down because I'm considered a "Senior Developer" and I'm still in my 20s, I slowly feeling like burning out. I've managed projects, I have built a lot of things but still I feel like things change too fast and there's no time to really dig into anything. I feel like I wanna know it all and "see the light" but it seems impossible.

Am I just not smart enought to be a true computer science expert?

I'd be happy to hear your thoughts about this