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What does 'skiddied' mean?Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn
Programming takes time and patience to learn. It took me 2 years to understand how Objects work and what their benefit is compared to procedural code. (Thanks John for turning on that light for me).
It's an adjectivalized verb, from to skid, which means that something may slide in an uncontrollable manner.
In this context, however, I'm sure he refers to script kiddies, which also has been adjectivalized, to mean that the code is of a script kiddie. A script kiddie is one who can't program, but tries to convince other people that he can - or he maybe even think he can code himself.
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Ah, an insult. Whatever. This is why I was asking for help. I'll go find someone else who might be willing to help.
You are acting like a skiddy there is no doubt about it. You are just going around the net and ripping off other peoples code and then trying to get it all to work together.
Hence, you are a skiddy, someone that is very much so frowned upon in the coding community.
Learn the language.
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So, wait. Let me get this straight. I'm a "skiddie" because I asked for help because I don't have any experience in programming C++? Wow.
I have no problem "Learning the language", but I also like to experiment, so I was trying to make something, and I asked for help. Sorry if I don't know everything like you hardcore programmers. I've been doing it for two days.
I wouldn't call you a skiddie so much as I would inexperienced (with reason). I would highly advise against putting already written code together. Instead make some new goal.
Here is an achievable goal for example: Make a program that reads a text file and counts the characters and outputs how many characters there are of each type, for example this post may have 20 "a"'s. That would help get you involved and after you make that you could take it a step more and do something with that data.
Maybe this might help get you programming in a more appropriate directionGUI's are hard to start with immediately, they take a lot of underlying knowledge that I found I have to gain one step at a time.
morefood2001: A script kiddie is someone who rips code off from others and tries to put it together, and then run it as their own program. That is a script kiddie.
If you have only been learning the language for two-days why would you be trying to do something like this? That makes absolutely no sense.
Like I have said twice already, learn the language.
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I am trying to learn the language, but I'm also trying to do what I originally wanted to do. To further that pursuit, I am looking at things trying to figure them out. I thought maybe asking for help from experienced programmers would help me, and occasionally I'll get a helpful response; but if all you're going to do is what you're doing, what's the point in responding at all? Did you start with "I just want to learn the language, there's nothing that I want to do with it?
When I started I realized that before I could do complicated things I needed to learn the language. It's like trying to run before you can walk.
Right now you are attacking it all wrong.
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