1) If you listen to any music, what genre and/or bands do you listen to?
2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
3) How often do you program in OOP?
4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?

My answers:

1. I like to listen to Mike Oldfield, Pirates of the Carribean sound track, LoTR soundtrack, and not-very-hard rock

2. I prefer an IDE for long bouts of coding on a few particular files, but I use an editor quite frequently when messing with only a few pieces of several files.

3. I program in OOP almost every day.

4. Semi-dark room (enough that there are faint shadow's cast by the screen)

5. Most of the time, all my concentration is on my work.

6. I prefer to hack at night. EDIT: But I'm fairly productive in the afternoon if no-physical beings distract me.

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1) I work most effectively in total silence, but, being somewhat temperamental, my code rages can occasionally be turned aside by the sweet sounds of FF soundtracks (especially VII), certain hymns, Weird Al Yankovic songs, Star Wars soundtrack...

2) Almost exclusively IDE. For mac (insert "intrash" or "os-s(_)x", for the haters), I use XCode; Windows, Dev-C++. UNIX/Linux at work, though, I've started using text editor (emacs) with g++.

3) Using C++, I like to consider OOP optional; I can't stand the stuff with Java how everything MUST be encapsulated, but if I have a good little unit (say, a player/enemy character) that just begs for polymorphism and hot pointers-to-classes, I'll OOP all day.

4) The room's gotta be bright, meaning "normal" room lighting. My eyesight is horrible, I'm hoping to preserve what I've got. Maybe one day NASA or the Air Force'll take us with laser surgery... gar.

5) Concentration, I tend to have a pretty intense focus. That focus, however, can result in an extreme rage when things go wrong. As such, I may or may not keep nearby walls, desks, coworkers for some indiscriminate justice dispensed by my fists of fury. It also helps, when the heat turns up especially at work, to start reading some hot physics.

6) I'm a complete morning person; can produce most effective work pretty much between the hours of 9:00AM and 12:00PM, less until 2:00PM, then I'm pretty well shot. I was about to say that this is different when I'm on vacation and working on games, but I realize that my peak stays right about where it is for work. Maybe God really didn't make us to be code monkeys... (insert random, crummily drawn "evolutionary" procession from the code monkey to modern humans, just to daily bust on evolution).

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
Just thought I'd ask a few questions about what you do when you're coding:

1) If you listen to any music, what genre and/or bands do you listen to?
2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
3) How often do you program in OOP?
4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?

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1. Sci-fi, R6-Lockdown music(You know the kind it plays in the menus :-)), or whatever I've got on my computer atm.
2. Sometimes, depending on what language I'm using. I use Wordpad and Note pad fairly often.
3. Never, if I can help it. I hate OOP!
4. Semi-dark
5. Half-and-half.
6. Doesn't matter.

2. I have learned(for better or worse) to despise text editor and command line coding; I always use an IDE (currently VC++.NET 2003)

3. I go OOP every chance I get (You should see some of my structured programs in Blitz... Its scary)

4. I think a dark room would be nice; but my family probably would wonder about my mental health if I sat typing away in the dark for a few hours a day =D

5. In the past I've juggled several pet projects at once; now I've gotten better in concentration

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2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
IDE unless it's changing files like configs or html...something already created. If it's from scratch it's usually an IDE so I have some sort of widget to start with.

3) How often do you program in OOP?
Heh, I'm just learning how to program much less distinguish really between OOP vs whatever else. If anything most everything I do is probably OOP.

4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
Semi-bright to bright.

5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?
I haven't yet reached ability to code as easy as I do sitting here typing this post so I'm probably concentrating on the project. Or are you talking about during a day what am I thinking about the most? In which case, probably not the coding project. Now if I'm on a game staff (have been a few times) I might spend nearly all day thinking about details on the game - weapons, races, classes, gameplay interactions, maybe the storyline. I have kept a thought on how one could accomplish some of the ideas with code - mostly with "If we had an if-then or a while at this point we could..."

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?
Night. Definately night. Day I'm at work or busy on other things (like sleeping till 10am-noon...and if I work at night it doesn't remind me how much of the daylight I've 'wasted'.

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
Just thought I'd ask a few questions about what you do when you're coding:

1) If you listen to any music, what genre and/or bands do you listen to?
2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
3) How often do you program in OOP?
4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?

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1. - When I code, I generally listen to music, mostly metal and indie rock stuff. Sometimes I watch TV, though I get less coding done that way.

2. - At work I use Visual Studio 2003. At home I use Sharpdevelop in Windows or Monodevelop in Linux for GUI stuff. Right now I'm using Kate in Linux, which is basically a text editor with nice code coloring. I'd like to know if anyone uses any IDE's for python. IDE's are invaluable if they have integrated debugging like VS.

3. - OOP is good to know and use, but good old procedural programming is generally faster and simpler for smaller tasks. That's how I code.

4. - Semi-bright or bright rooms are best, or else the monitor burns my eyes.

5. - I'm all about the code.

6. - Evening and night is when I get the most coding done, mostly because I work during the day, or go to church, or sleep in.

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2) IDE all da way!

3) I try to use OOP as often as I can. Not all of the code at work is OOP, so I just deal with it.

4) semi-dark. No glare, nothing bright. Easy on my eyes. Since most of my programming is at work, and work is REALLY bright, I am not fond of the conditions at work.

5) Probably non-code related things. Like Christ, my wife, my kids, and photography.

6) I have no preference as when to program. But most of my programming is during the day while at work.

2) depends on the language. like for python, text editor all the way. i don't need any fancy IDE for that. but i like it for C++, especially since my IDE's linker (Dev-C++) and such are really great and easy. for BYOND, of course I have to use the IDE, at least for a lot of it. sometimes i can use outside stuff but mostly i use it because there's not much you can do outside of the IDE.

3) All the time, BYOND is what i program in most, and it's totally OOP-based. or very much so. C++, meh, haven't gotten into that much, probably will use it when i get around to it. Python, hmm... not really.

4) doesn't matter, but usally dark. i like it that way. keeps me more focused.

5) yes, definitely, i'm a very focused person lol. so yeah, that's easy.

6) depends on my energy. if i'm tired, i'll try to do it during the day. but at night, i usually don't feel how tired i am, so i can go for a while. but because of the limiter (my parents) i haven't really coded or anything very late at night, so i dunno.

edit: BTW Steveth45, i think Scite Editor has integrated debugging. it's used for Ruby but i believe it can do Python too.

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That reminds me. I gotta lend Steveth45 some TD.

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That reminds me. I gotta lend Steveth45 some TD.

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Sweet. (SSquared and I work in adjacent cubicles by day, and post on CCN from our respective homes at night)

BB, thanks for the hot tip about SciTE. I'll check it out.

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stylin'

He's a great guy and I am thrilled to have him on our team. You can thank the CGDC for that. We met there 2 years ago and a year later, we hired him.

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Yeah, I have something like 70 of their CDs and various LPs and 12" singles. I really like listening to Livemiles and Poland while coding. Favorite song? Hmmmm, they have so many great ones. Favorite albums are Livemiles, Poland, Logos...just about anything during the Johannes Schmoelling years. I really like to code during some of the driving, upbeat rhythms they have going.

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2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
-used to use TextPad and Visual C++ before that, but now, Eclipse.

3) How often do you program in OOP?
-yeah, as much as I can.

4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
- mid, I'd say.

5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?
-I'll be mostly be doing multiple things at once, but most of my work will be done with random spurts of coding where I lock out everything else. this usually happens more frequently when the deadline for a project approaches.

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?
-night.

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(2) Editor, mainly Vim, Emacs or Pico/Nano

(3) All the time

(4) Completely dark room for me. It helps me to concentrate and sets the mood nicely for coding...

(5) Depends if there is anything interesting going on in IRC

(6) Night time. The daytime is for thinking and planning the nights coding session.

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1) If you listen to any music, what genre and/or bands do you listen to?
2) Do you use an IDE or an editor for most things?
3) How often do you program in OOP?
4) Do you prefer to code in a bright, semi-bright, semi-dark, or dark room?
5) More often than not, is or most all of your concentration on the project you are working on or is some it on other (non-code) related things?

6) Do you prefer to hack at things at night, in the day, or does it not matter?

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1) no music, i prefer the sound of keystrokes...weird huh?
2)vb 2005 express right now, once i get enough for the student license it'll be visual studio 2005 standard(or pro, can't remember the name.). oh, i also like notepad for scripting, i wouldn't use openoffice/word at all, but the spellchecker and grammer stuff helps with school work.
3)i'm still too much of a noob to understand this, but i'm guessing it'll be almost always...?
4)bright to semi-bright, only like to be in dark when i'm sleeping or watching movies
5)...still working on the concentration part...hard to do 'cept when i'm at school, not use to focusing on anything "serious" at home.
6)between 10pm and 7am...and that could be an all nighter, or getting up really early, not much of an afternoon person. i'm kind of a night owl with spats of early-bird-ism.

@jestermax ...i'll take your list of rock bands...especially if they're Christian rock/metal bands...if you get really bored you can e-mail me so i can keep a reference list for future cd purchases...just incase you get that bored(or you're that nice) realkodiac [at] gmail [dot] com

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Just curious why you want 2005 Standard or Pro. The Express versions offer quite a lot. I am not asking this in a negative tone, I am just wondering what it is you may want from the higher end packages. That may also help me in understanding the differences between them.

I do find some features missing in the Express Editions. C++ Express does not allow for MFC, which means all of my old code will not compile. I get around this problem by really enjoying C# and using C# Express. I do not have C++ Express intalled. I just won't be able to do anything from work while at home. This issue alone has made me semi-think about getting the Standard version of 2005.

The other limitation I have is with database stuff. Express Editions will not let you visually design and hook things up with anything other than MS SQL. It's a really terrific feature, but I am now forced to use MS SQL if I want to learn how to use it.

<Currently listening to the "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" soundtrack while coding. Yes, I took a quick break to check the site.>

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proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

proverbs 25:7
open rebuke is better than secret love.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs

[This message has been edited by bennythebear (edited August 23, 2006).]

http://www.last.fm/user/Maveriser/?chartstyle=Awesome35

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