women & programming

[bonjour]

No offense to any women programmers out there, but for us guys, it seems that girlfriends & programming just dont mix.
Or is it just me? But finding time to write code AND spending time with a loved one is impossible. Maybe that's why I've gone through so many girlfriends.

Well, at least my computer doesnt argue with me or get jeolous when I download pics from Playboy.

Perhaps your joystick driver is incompatible!

[zmerlinz]

I know that you may think that i am an annoying person, but shouldn't this be posted in the chit chat section,

sorry to be a nag, but i am trying to leave this section free for real problems

Merlin ? (a good guy really)

[marnitzg]

Some people are just sad. I agree with wossname!

[zmerlinz]

who are you refering to ?

Merlin ?

[parksie]

Hmm...calm down, people.
I'm going to have to side with Merlin on this one - it can get a bit annoying when non-serious stuff clutters up the forums .

Although I may let it slide, just this once .

[zmerlinz]

cheers parksie, finally someone agrees with me

Merlin ?

[marnitzg]

I agree. This shouldn't be here. Kill IT!

[KENNNY]

u old boring complainers
if u don't wanna see a post, dont click on it

[zmerlinz]

i'm not a complainer i just don't like time wasters, this post would be much more useful in the chit chat section as it has nothing what so ever to do with general vb PROBLEMS

OK

Merlin ?

[Jop]

Yeah yeah I agree this has to be posted in the chit-chat and stuff, but I just wanted to reply

Why the hell do you think girls and programming doesn't mix? Do you think all the members here are single? Some of them are actually married!
Most people here aren't of the stereotype 'nerd', they don't all wear glasses (no offence for everyone who does ), they don't only eat chocolate (no offence for everyone who does ) and they don't all have faces full of spots (no offence for everyone who does )

Just tell your girlfriend you'll get rich of it and she'll marry you!

Just kidding.

Look, I'm combining school, girlfriends, bars, parents, friends and a lot of drinks with VB, it's just for the fun and I'm not addicted to it at all, if you put me in a room without a computer for like 5 years I'll survive, especially when there are chicks in the room

[zmerlinz]

nice one jop you described me to a tee, if you don't believe me then look at my picture on the "me" section on my website www.angelfire.com/geek/zmerlinz

but i know you didn't mean to offend any one so i forgive you, btw i have a girlfriend and she doesn't mind me and my computer mainly becasue she knows i will make quite a bit of money.

Merlin ?

[parksie]

Oh well, since it's here and interesting, I'll make my point now .
Now, Jop - your checklist...

Nerd? Yep
Glasses? Nope
Chocolate? Occasionally
Spots? Nope

Hmm...not a bad score. I agree that we shouldn't take stereotypes of people, but I have seen loads of computer people who are actually quite normal. In my frequent trips to computer fairs (done to get bargains, rather than being geeky), about 90% of the customers are there for the same reasons as me - stuff is a lot cheaper. But for some reason, if you say you've been to a computer fair, loads of people think you're weird.

[Jop]

It would be quite fair to fill in the checklist myself.

Nerd: Don't feel I am, I don't only computer, I go out alot too
Glasses: Nope, my eyes are ok
Chocolate: Nope, otherwise I'll sure get those spots , but without the chocolate it's fairly ok
Sports: Soccer (indoor + outdoor), fußball (the soccer on a table, not really a sport ) and having fun with my girlfriend hehe actually I don't have one at the moment, well, not quite... she's a bit my girlfriend... nah to hard to explain, forget about it

see ya guys, going out now.. you can find me in Amsterdam!

[QWERTY]

I don't agree that the programming and womean don't match. It may not be the best match, but you can live quite normally and still be a computer programmer. Personally at this time I'm girlfriendless, but that just because I just moved to a different city (different country too) so it takes some time. But before that I was just as normal as everybody else. Girlfriends, pubs (looooooots of drinks) and stuff like that. I have to admit that the money I can make from programming make it even easier to have an extremaly good time.
As to the way programmers look. It makes me sick that people think that all of us are just nerds. What's "nerd" about me? I'm good at sports (playing varsity all year long), not the worst looking person in the world. I do have some "spots" on my face, but it has more to do with my skin problems than with computers (at least my dermatologist says that ). The only thing that makes me different is that I maintain a perfect 4.0 gpa, I can finish my high school at any time now, becaue I have enough credits, and I'll probably get my degree in cmpsci at the end of my sophmore year or at the beginning of the junior year in college (I have lots of college credits already). If all that makes me a nerd then I don't mind being him. Adding to that all the fun I have with my friends (yes, girls too), all the places I went to thanks to my knowledge of C++ and VB - I love being a nerd.

Just my $0.02.

[zmerlinz]

!!I AM A NERD / GEEK AND PROUD TO BE ONE!!

Merlin ¿

[PRIVATE1]

Include your Girlfriend , if she's interested in P.C's .

THe issue is Programming is Problem Solving and Men by nature are problem solvers and women aren't thats why more men program than women , but I bet you all knew that already .


[]P

[zmerlinz]

nah my girlfriend is not a nerd or a geek, she doesn't like computers that much, she finds the boring.

Merlin ¿

[bonjour]

Ok OK OK... I should have never posted that comment here.
I appologize!!

All of you have answered VB questions that I have asked and I'm thankful for it.

Just been one of those weeks when I'm dedicating 24 hours a day to code and a girlfriend gets jeolous of my PC.

So setting girlfriends aside and getting back on track to VB....... Do any of you get something like writer's block? I mean, I get right in the middle of an app, and WHAM! A dead stop!

Guess I need a break. Maybe I should see if the outside world is still there.

[parksie]

If you're in Britain, stay inside and lock all doors and windows. Believe me...you don't want to see what's happened to the outside world .

[jkurpias]

Maybe your inability to see why your question is inappropriate in the Q & A section is a clue to why you're having relationship problems?

[zmerlinz]

why what has happened, i've just been out to let a mouse loose, and all i noticed that was different was the wonderful smell of gunpowder, and burning wood, (fireworks demonstration in case you wondered)

Merlin ¿

[agent]

Now what I really want to see is some women programmers...

i wonder if Computer Shopper magazine has a Programmer's Wives section! heh heh. :P

[Asaf_99]

Originally posted by parksie
If you're in Britain, stay inside and lock all doors and windows. Believe me...you don't want to see what's happened to the outside world .

You're saying that he showld'nt go out if he's from Great Britain???
I'm living in Israel!!!
So I think I should stay at home with VB and umm...
My invisble girlfriend?
Besides have have female friends but not yet a GF but soon will be

I think staying indoors i britain is for 2 reasons:

1. Most of the country is flooded to hell
2. Its Bonfire Night season

Guy Fawkes was a programmer, and all his town folk though that making a machine that follows voice instructions (he was ahead of his time!) was witchcraft, so the set him on fire. And thats why you'll never see VB enthusiasts wandering around in the streets on Nov 5th.

I'm just talking a load of crap now, so i'll stop here.

[Sam Finch]

If he hadn't made his computer out of gunpowder, or chosen somewhere apart from the basement in the commons to program he'd still be alive today.

he'd soon die of exhaustion from blowing out several hundred candles on his birthday cake though!

[Hollie]

I thought I would stand up for women programmers all over the world and reply to this sexist thread.

You see, we women programmers manage to live very successful lives - jobs (good paying), men (with their own money) and good homes (in our names) - not at all like our geeky male programmers.

Bonjour - you really need to get a life and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Hollie


p.s. Britain isn't flooded - England and Wales are. Scotland is still nice and bonnie! (Don't know what the weather is like in Northern Ireland - sorry)

[KENNNY]

good for scotland - its wet and cold here in london
btw bonjour - about your writer's block thing - i dont get a "block" - more bored of a program sometimes
i think it's cos i dont make any money yet..

[Ramandeep]

I agree with KENNNY, if u don't want to see the link/send reply why click f*****g thing?