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Re: What do you think about how easy theyre making programming?

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Originally Posted by seanwitte
This is real life. Nobody is going to pay you to write something thats already been done a hundred times. The challenge is to take all of this pre-existing code and do something useful with it. Believe me, I understand what you're saying. Do you honestly think that NASA could have put those rovers on Mars if they wrote everything from scratch? Take what they give you, study it, and extend it. Its great to want to do it yourself, but while you're coding and testing your math library in week three you could be refining some mind blowing autonomous code.
I agree 100%. Just because they give us some better scripts doesn't mean that they're handing us the code. Instead of giving us some wood and nails and saying "build us a box", they're handing us power tools and saying "now make us something cool"

I, for one, am very excited about the idea. I just need time to look things over and play with it a bit.
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