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Need Directions to become a programmer [closed]

- by Omin

Before youguys go on about how there are many types of programmers, please read through the post. Long term goal: Develop my own software (company) Short term goal: Get a job that involves coding/programming Current status: Support Analyst (at a software company but does not involve any programming) with 40k salary, 3rd year computer engineering student I had everything figured out. I'm going to develop a 2D scrolling game for iphone or android, publish the app, sell a bunch, and then apply at a studios as a software developer. And then something hit me. I think I need to get a job that involes programming to learn as much as I can in the shortest time possible. So I got a phone interview at a fast growing start up software company, passed that no problem, but then had to take an online technical assessment. That failed miserably. I thought that if I could just present myself, show that I am hard working, positive attitude, eager to make self improvements, type of a guy, I could get the job. I was wrong. And now, I am lost. Im thinking of staying with my job until I find a new one as a programmer. I will be working, self studying, and trying to make this happen without finishing university. I forgot to mention that the online technical assessment was based on data structures/algorithms, OO design, runtime complexity. I was hoping that I could get some guidence. Should I be focusing on app development or study computer science fundamentals? I have a list of books I can be going through: Learning C# O'Reilly (I got interested in C# because of Unity3D and Mono), C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, Head First Design Patterns, Code Complete, Introduction to Algorithms, Programming Interviews Exposed, Cracking the Coding Interview, The Google Resume.

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C#: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or Property

- by Omin

I feel bad for asking this when there are so many questions that are related but I was not able to find/understand the answer I am looking for. // 2. Develop a program to convert currency X to currency Y and visa versa. using System; class Problem2 { static void Main (string[] args) { while (true) { Console.WriteLine ("1. Currency Conversion from CAD to Won"); Console.WriteLine ("2. Currency Conversion from Won to Cad"); Console.Write ("Choose from the Following: (1 or 2)? "); int option = int.Parse( Console.ReadLine() ); //double x; if (option == 1) { Console.WriteLine ("Type in the amount you would like to Convert CAD to Won: "); //double y =double.Parse( Console.ReadLine()); //Console.WriteLine( cadToWon( y ) ); Console.WriteLine( cadToWon( double.Parse( Console.ReadLine() ) )); } if (option == 2) { Console.WriteLine ("Type in the amount you would like to Convert Won to CAD: "); Console.WriteLine( wonToCad (double.Parse( Console.ReadLine()))); } } } double cadToWon( double x ) { return x * 1113.26; } double wonToCad( double x) { return x / 1113.26; } } This give me the Error messgae "An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'Problem2..." I know that I'll be able to run the program if I add static infront of the methods but I'm wondering why I need it (I think it's because Main is static?) and what do I need to change in order to use these methods without adding static to them? Thank you

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Automatically selecting and creating class objects

- by Omin

Lets say that we have a box class: class Box { private int width; private int height; //Box Constructor public Box( int height ) { this.height = height; width = 450; } } and a series of Box objects in our main: Box Box1 = new Box(147); Box Box2 = new Box(178); Box Box3 = new Box(784); Is there a way to use a "for" loop to go through these objects? Also, how would you make the computer create class objects for us? eg. create 10 objects using: for( int i=0; i>10; i++) { //method }

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JS and CSS caching issue: possibly .htaccess related

- by adamturtle

I've been using the HTML5 Boilerplate for some web projects for a while now and have noticed the following issue cropping up on some sites. My CSS and JS files, when loaded by the browser, are being renamed to things like: ce.52b8fd529e8142bdb6c4f9e7f55aaec0.modernizr-1,o7,omin,l.js …in the case of modernizr-1.7.min.js The pattern always seems to add ce. or cc. in front of the filename. I'm not sure what's causing this, and it's frustrating since when I make updates to those files, the same old cached file is being loaded. I have to explicitly call modernizr-1.7.min.js?v=2 or something similar to get it to re-cache. I'd like to scrap it altogether but it still happens even when .htaccess is empty. Any ideas? Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

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