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[Deepfreeze32]

Ever take a course in Compilers?

[ArcticFox]

How do YOU orient your braces?

[ArchAngel]

@Deep: No, and I kind of wished my CS program required it.

@Arctic:

Generally as:

Public Class
{

}

public string Method(){

}

if(...){

}

But unfortunately, I've been having to do a lot of VB.NET work, so it's been like

If VB Is Stupid Then

Else If
Throw New LiesException
End If

Function StupidVBMethod(ByVal StupidVBParam As String) As String

End Function


It's just an awkward language, all in all. And what's worse, I've been getting used to iterating through arrays with by using parentheses and leaving off my semi-colons... It's getting to me.

[ArcticFox]

Yeah... I've had to maintain VB.NET code. It was a .NET shop and all the "Business Analysts" used it. I secured permission to use C# in new stuff I was developing though, so at least there was that...

ASP.NET?

[ArchAngel]

Yeah, we have VB for all the web app code, but for our framework we have it in C#.

Yup, I use a good amount of ASP.NET and not thrilled about it, but don't hate it. When doing work it was intended for, it can work pretty well, and the logic is in the code-behind anyways.

But it's twisted, evil step-mother Classic ASP...
It makes me wish for VB.NET.

All the engineers are pushing to get this completely out of the code and upper management is looking like their approving it.

Classic ASP. Not even once.

[ArcticFox]

Classic ASP or JavaScript?

[ArchAngel]

I prefer working with JavaScript than Classic ASP.

Classic ASP really lends itself to convoluted spaghetti code. Just thousands and thousands of lines of mashed together ASP, html and VB Script.
It's an abomination.

[Deepfreeze32]

Least favorite Computer Science course in undergrad?

[ArchAngel]

Ahhh. Hmmmmm... There was this one algorithms class that had just an awful professor. I ended up skipping the final so I could fail it and retake it.
There was also the Unix classes. It's not that they were bad; they were just useless. I was being lazy, so I took some of them as electives just to skate by. Really wish I went to do Network programming or something more important. Didn't really think of it then, but now I realized I just wasted my time. Good to see that you're more motivated than I was.

[Chozon1]

Gallstones book of magic?

[ArchAngel]

lol wut?

[Deepfreeze32]

So my Software Engineering Project is to construct a file archiving utility like tar. Not sure what to do, since we're not allowed to use any libraries...

Any advice?

[ArchAngel]

Cool project. Never did that myself. You can probably script better than I can, too.
Good luck and good googling!

[Deepfreeze32]

So I also have to write a Software Requirements Specification. Any experience with those? XD

[ArchAngel]

Some during school. Almost never had to do them later on. The places I worked for weren't so much for the formal when it came to documentation.
I honestly don't remember a whole lot.

From my memory, much if it's very rote. Find a template and start filling in what it's supposed to do and handle.