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A "would you" needs qualification, otherwise it's just too wide open. As the question stands it can't be answered.
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it can be answered. many have answered it.
take the plunge.
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Heck no. If I say "Yes", I may get a call saying Granny wants to learn VB!
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and...? What would you say to her?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I would not encourage such behaviour.
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I'd have to ask if she stopped taking her meds.
Darroll
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That's what I saw the maybe answer as doing, allowing for an if...
WarePhreak
Programmers are tools to convert caffiene to code.
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Nop. They think "hey free tech help!"
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Simply put 'You are taken for a free ride. '.
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I get always free cake, cookies and coffee for helping. :->
Greetings from Germany
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Thats true for a lot of techies. People always feed me when I am at their house working on their computer.
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Family/friends IT for (or in the morning).
Software Zen: delete this;
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I usually require food and socializing for me and my fam if I am to work for free. I have a wife and 3 kids. They will weigh that heavily against 40-50$ per hour. It also depends on how much work I have to do. if it is more than a couple of hours then I don't offer the work for dinner. Yes this applies to immediate family too. The grandmas always choose to cook.
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I like very much what I do.
I feel like like very few people enjoying to work, not just working because I have to but because it's what I like to do.
A big problem I see with kids now is that they don't know what they like.
They seem like they don't like to do anything despite TV, hanging out doing nothing, sleeping,... whatever...
Computers are a easy to like, and if a kid can overcome the "fascinating" world of games and chatting, I think he/she can take a profession out of it with some ease.
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AlexCode wrote: I like very much what I do.
I feel like like very few people enjoying to work, not just working because I have to but because it's what I like to do.
I've had the privilege of doing something I like to do for a living for 30 years. What's to hate about that?
If someone in the family likes to "make" things then, sure! Making software is as creative and can be as much fun as making anything else!
-CB
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I'm a kid that overcomed the fascinating world of games and chatting and started programming. Well, the fascinating world of games was the main reason. I'm a kid, you know. And still - my goal is to code a game...
But that's not really related to the poll
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Good for you that you made the "jump"
What I meant was that usually kids (and the not so kids) just play and chat and do nothing else.
Spending all day glued to the keyboard playing doesn't mean that that person is talented to be a good IT professional in whatever area including development.
True is that most computer get their entrance into homes because of games and word processing occasionally revealing new talents.
As an advice if you want to take it, gaming industry is just one small part of software development and depending on where you are (country) may be very difficult to be professional on that. Stick to what you want but also consider other areas.
Cheers!
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Right...
And I surely won't make games only. There are other interesting branches. My first program had nothing to do with games...
-- modified at 12:54 Tuesday 11th September, 2007
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Funnily enough I got my start in programming when my parents bought a computer knowing it was the future, but they didn't know they had to buy software as well (or perhaps they couldn't see the value in such expensive little disks). So I had an expensive computer and no software, except for this funny program called 'basic' which allowed you to write other programs. My first paid programming gig as a teenager was writing a program to tally the survey results for a local committe opposed to a highway bypass. Today you could do the same thing in 30 minutes with Excel or Access, but I didn't have any software so I had to write it myself. The worst thing was I kept bumping into the 256Kb RAM (yes, that's KB) limits so I had to write everything off to the floppy and read it back in again as needed. I've still got the code on a printout - all it needed was some bolognaise sauce and a bit of grated parmesan.
(edit : the highway bypass was built anyway - thus also marking my first large project that eventually went nowhere)
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I love a bit of one upmanship (and expect to get done again) I started on a commodore 64 and had to use the audio tape to store the program - ahh those were the days.
More to the point my son who I tried to encourage to become a programmer is hopeless at anything but games (he regularly beat me at any computer game). He is now a divemaster in Cairns and very happy with his choices.
Unless they have at least some talent and more important a passion for creating solutions, stick to the games.
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I think it's possible, but it would be much better to not invite relatives in your projects, company or team.
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Nickolay Karnaukhov wrote: but it would be much better to not invite relatives in your projects, company or team
Definitely not. This would bring in more politics right? Also, many organizations have defined HR Policies to smoothly deal with this type of issue. Isn't it?
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I don't know how companies deal with that issue but I know one married couple worked in same team on the same project and they divorced after 6 month of work together just because husband didn't liked a code his wife done...
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Nickolay Karnaukhov wrote: they divorced after 6 month of work together just because husband didn't liked a code his wife done
Bad Bad Attitude. Personal things and Professional deliverables should have thier own limits and a distinct tangible line of demarcation is what is emphasized here or what goes as the moral of the story.
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That is really sad...
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