This post is NOT I repeat NOT directed at any individual on this or any other forum!
I am cool calm and collected, so hope this thread remains purely to incourage meaningful thought in all who read it.
I remember the days at school where I and probably others would not raise a hand in class to say "I dont understand" to avoid the ridicule the teacher and to some extent my peers would inflict on me just because to them the particular topic was easy to undestand.
I am now 40 and still this happens to me, I have no formal qualifications and yet but luck and hard work I am in a very good job writing programs for my employers and for fun that others just would not have a clue.
My problem is similar I am sure to many, I can learn something and understand it, somethime quicker somethimes slower, in order to obtain the desired goal. But and this is the thing, if I dont use it I loose it. And come the time I need to do it again, I have to learn it all over again.
A few examples:
In 1993 I taught myself C++ and the required math to enter into the program the dimensions of any box and any size battery. The program calculated how many of the given batteries would fit in the box in the most efficient way possible. Not rocket science to many, but I did it all the same. If I wanted to do the same again now, I would have to learn it all again because I have forgot how to do it.
In 1995 a turning point in my life I wrote SpaceInvaders in C++ and assembler. YES assembler! I taught myself how to write a keyboard interrupt handler to enbale faster user input response. This taught me a valuable lesson, I am not thick, I do not deserve to be ridiculed by others for not understanding things straight away. I have two brothers, one a senior system analyst the other a financial director who is a member of mensa and a rocket scientist in math. Neither have a clue how to write such programs, does that make them thick?
On another forum a user was flamed for submitting a piece of work that others deemed to be basic and simple. It turned out this user was an 8 year old. I hope the flamers felt good inside. The user in question could have done what many would do, hide away and give up to avoid being humiliated again. But no she at 8 years old stood up for herself. But sadly others do not.
There my ramblings are over, I do not want to incite a flame war, I just wanted to share these thoughts with everyone and to simple remind you all, every man woman and child on this planet are different and if help is asked for they should not be ridiculed no matter how simply the question.
nuff said
I am cool calm and collected, so hope this thread remains purely to incourage meaningful thought in all who read it.
I remember the days at school where I and probably others would not raise a hand in class to say "I dont understand" to avoid the ridicule the teacher and to some extent my peers would inflict on me just because to them the particular topic was easy to undestand.
I am now 40 and still this happens to me, I have no formal qualifications and yet but luck and hard work I am in a very good job writing programs for my employers and for fun that others just would not have a clue.
My problem is similar I am sure to many, I can learn something and understand it, somethime quicker somethimes slower, in order to obtain the desired goal. But and this is the thing, if I dont use it I loose it. And come the time I need to do it again, I have to learn it all over again.
A few examples:
In 1993 I taught myself C++ and the required math to enter into the program the dimensions of any box and any size battery. The program calculated how many of the given batteries would fit in the box in the most efficient way possible. Not rocket science to many, but I did it all the same. If I wanted to do the same again now, I would have to learn it all again because I have forgot how to do it.
In 1995 a turning point in my life I wrote SpaceInvaders in C++ and assembler. YES assembler! I taught myself how to write a keyboard interrupt handler to enbale faster user input response. This taught me a valuable lesson, I am not thick, I do not deserve to be ridiculed by others for not understanding things straight away. I have two brothers, one a senior system analyst the other a financial director who is a member of mensa and a rocket scientist in math. Neither have a clue how to write such programs, does that make them thick?
On another forum a user was flamed for submitting a piece of work that others deemed to be basic and simple. It turned out this user was an 8 year old. I hope the flamers felt good inside. The user in question could have done what many would do, hide away and give up to avoid being humiliated again. But no she at 8 years old stood up for herself. But sadly others do not.
There my ramblings are over, I do not want to incite a flame war, I just wanted to share these thoughts with everyone and to simple remind you all, every man woman and child on this planet are different and if help is asked for they should not be ridiculed no matter how simply the question.
nuff said
