Thread: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Unread 29-03-2010, 20:47
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Originally Posted by Mr. Lim View Post
A wise mentor once told me:

The smart have a great understanding of the things they know.

The wise have a great understanding of the things they do not know.

David, as a teacher I would NEVER stop a student from pursuing a project as ambitious as this. Based on your other threads, you definitely strike me as a VERY smart young individual. My only word of advice is that I hope there can be a very wise (and hopefully smart!) mentor to provide some wisdom along the way. I guarantee it will be the difference between having the most hard-working, fulfilling and successful 6-weeks of your life, versus a few moments of undirected enthusiasm followed by sustained frustration, eventually giving up, and resorting to playing Madden on your hand-held.

If you can find that mentor and successfully work with them, I'll certainly give you an internet high-five regardless of whether you actually produce a functioning fully-autonomous robot...

Deal?

Well one of my programming mentors is very supportive of my ideas, I wanted to used C++ this year, but he didn't trust my skills to pull it off since I was brand new and just a sophomore, but by the end of the 6 weeks, I have managed to get his attention and hes letting me use C/C++ next year. the other one thinks I will get extremely frustrated or something trying to use C++ and move back to Java. I have learned C++ as my first language and have been using it for 4 year, I don't think I will give up on it. Yea both are great mentors, but I have yet to deliver this message to them yet. I told them to let all the other programmers to code in Java and I will just out perform them with my C++ code.
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