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DanielTheGeek:
What more can I say, all these smart people above have said important things but let's look at it from a different angle:
NOTE:: Steve Jobs didn't write the codes for Apple, Steve Woz did, and he was the one doing the late night things while Jobs looked for opportunities and discussed business related issues.
The truth is, the Night time is very precious to a programmer, It's when you're free from distractions and can focus clearly it's when majority of the world's population would be asleep and for you to stay up every night till your project is complete will probably result to success. Nobody on Nairaland has met DanielTheGeek offline except some few developers and when each of them saw me, I was mostly not even with my laptop...left it at home/at work and that's because I do most of the hard thinking and problem solving during the day (which is why I usually have time to post on Nairaland), go ahead to sleep for about five (5) hours and then at Night around 7pm-4am I'm doing what I love doing best and I do it FAST because I already knew what I wanted to do, asked all the questions during the day-time and that works fine for me only that I've got to listen to the noise of witches in my area ;-) . Just try reducing the backlight of your pc/laptop and arrange your day, you don't need to make a high-school time-table.
You have no better option than to work at Night because you tend to be more productive and try to understand what works for you, for instance if light in your area comes around 5pm-9pm everyday in your area then know that's your work period, postpone your sleeping (don't forget to sleep, just postpone it) and once it's 11pm (Your battery should still carry you on) shut-down both your laptop and yourself. With that routine, mama can catch you in bed always and you can keep developing always too.

About your project, I was at a developer conference organized by Microsoft some while back and the speaker said, "share your ideas with someone who can make it a reality" not on a forum where people who won't even comment can scroll through and next thing is your app has launched without you, lol. Not everybody has the ability to complete a project from start to finish single-handedly, so my advice is to learn to trust and share your Idea, you shouldn't worry about who will steal it because in the process of sharing it you may land yourself investors...who knows?
Now sit-up boy and write tha motha-fu***ng code like you've never done before, when you want to give up, remember that everyone, is waiting secretly for you to lose, don't justify them.

Thanks alot!. I got much from your text.

Almost Everything has merits and disadvantages, I think the merits are greater in my case...I'll just keep missing from bed (sometimes... and in a stylish manner so mama wouldn't gbab me)

And about my project.. I know I'll have no options but to trust someone someday...but I'll do that when I've gone super far

Codenister:
It is all about striking and maintaining balance. Even if your mum will not get angry, you need to as well consider your own health.
I always have adequate sleep, and I still manage to stay productive, always, all the time.

For the records, I am still in school, and also work at the same time and I still maintain the balance

Thanks. But it's his so hard to 'maintain balance '
...especially when I start writing. Hmmm, I'll try sha

brightdv:
During the week i came across go programming language that was developed by three of google's software engineers and i kind of got interested in it.
I dont know if anyone here is using it or has tried his hands on it? lets hear your say on it.

Show a sample of "Hello world "

Sircomeference:
I can be your co-author.
Let's work together.

Iam interested, but how I wish I can trust you

silento:
try to code in mid week like Wednesdays and week ends Sunday two intensive days in a week is ok hope is nothing without life

wish u best of luck

Thanks alot... I think that's what I'll do. I'll use the other days to work on my Algorithms and Pseudo codes (on paper) so on some other days, I'll do coding

mogozi:
Man, try balancing things up. I've realized after a prolonged period of parental defiance that the elders have the benefit of hindsight. So I'll suggest you crash in between exciting project. Look at it this way... Your body is producing too much adrenaline because of your excitement. This is okay in the short term, but on the long run you don't want to be a sick pioneer ...Ask Steve jobs.... ...
Good job man.

Thanks Man. I'll try sorting a timetable... even though I'll find it difficult to abide to it for now. I'll try

She and some others tells me I'll face health challenges in the future.

I'll be greatful for whatever it is you have to tell me.

hmmm (I take a deep breath as I write)

Once upon a time, many years ago when I was beginning programming, I devoted alot of time to learning inasmuch as I tried to proof the "programmer-missing-from-bed-at-night" joke wrong... but now, itve caught-up with me.

The Reason

Recently, I came up with an idea that is not just entirely unique in the web but also an idea that would change the mindset of programmers / webdevs... the internet is not just for things that exist now (forum, blog, social networks, bla bla bla, etc )

I keep thanking God for giving me such a brilliant idea (after thinking for more than a Year )

Well, Iam a rapid doer and I've gone really far already, just that stay more than 15hrs straight on the Computer.

What got my mom Angry

Though I didn't even try to explain my project to her (she doesn't think I should do anything at the detriment of my health ) ...though my elder ones will understand with me... yesterday...or early this morning (around 5am) she discovered I was still on the computer... she got "maddest" and I don't like it when she thinks I've grown so much that I will no longer listen to her

My state

Fear and curiosity is what I feel now. Though Iam not too scared because even someone can think of that idea... it will never be like mine, above all that person can never overtake me with the sophisticated features and current progress in development.
Secondly, Iam really curious to show the world that brand new idea... it may be like an alien visiting earth openly.

What I think

I know I may just need a co-author (who will help me when I compulsorily take a break) but I just find it difficult to trust anyone, especially as I havnt yet launched it.

Fact

— I hate getting my mom angry.
— I love programming.
— I love originality in inovations
and...
— I need your advice.

Thanks.

NLAK'P'

dhtml18:
great, except that you need to use MsgBoxStyle.Troll (if they dont have that, we need to tell microsoft to create a TROLL ICON).

I got that

Nothing as good as being with my fellow Nigerian Code Writers

- I nominate badthinds https://www.nairaland.com/badthinds

- I nominate myself https://www.nairaland.com/logicalhumour

How ever the competition goes, I hope u guys show maturity.

Your NO1 really got me tired. I discovered lately Nairaland programmers only reped OOPhp because of it's "intimidating look".

Programmers are forgetting simplicity these days. When writing some kinda projects, you'll discover OOPhp is not worth it!

- When I learn a language, I use it so well that I seldom use a framework

- I agree with NO 6

airsaylongcon:
You are further butressing my point. Our forebears were mediocre shooting arrows, the white man with a better understanding of the theory of projectiles decided to make guns. Their guns made them top-notch big game killers while our forbears killed small game. You know I can kill more big game with a gun than with a bow and arrow.

And you shot yourself mentioning Cocoa. We locked the beans while those with better understanding of the theory of biochemistry made chocolates which command considerably more financial value. Their so-called

We roasted meat with fire while better knowledge of theory showed that you can harness the power of fire to do more than roast meat. You can roast a whole city of your enemies with less effort. Heck you can make fireworks that will hold people spell bound.

For crying out loud it was knowledge of theory that made us realise that we can cut wood in more efficient ways before sawdust can even be obtained. Even the knowledge that banana leaves can be used to wrap moimoi is knowledge of theory. Why didn't they use any leave like pawpaw leave or the leaves of the fruit we call "fruit" (called Indian Almond in English or Ebelebor in Warri/Benin pidgin)

My friend without theory you can go thus far, with theory you can go farther than "thus far". That's the difference between an Average programmer and a top-notch programmer. We shouldn't be satisfied with mediocrity. We should aspire for excellence.

A clear example of a top-notch software is Moodle, a widely used Virtual Learning Environment. While most Nigerian programmers will want to build from scratch a VLE, top notch developers (and lazy people like me) take moodle and use it in very diverse ways than the originator intended. I for example use Moodle to conduct a variety of Computer-Based exams that the average Nigerian programmer won't ever think of. Knowledge of theory my friend is very crucial

You Are A Smart Guy, but, wake up and stop thinking the white man woke and just started making guns! (they started also from the stone age, they shot arrows, they wore seamless gowns etc ).

Your point was that there would have been no electricity or something similar ...Not Correct !

Go to Wikipedia and read the history of planes (may look like a lengthy scribe - but endure till you finish. )
You'll discover something amazing (which would prove my point )

Scientists who never saw each other (scattered all over the world ) began to postulate theories of how an object could be made to fly (can you beat this?) ...all of them may have known about torque but called it different names.

Wikipedia would show you some pictures (you will see how entirely unique their inventions / theories were).

Theory is divided into two. The written and non-written. The primitive Africans had theories, A child in those days would not just start making arrows without learning from the father who may have said "boy, always stream-line your arrows" ) the white man stream-lined objects... maybe to reduce air friction, and the primitive African did so... maybe to have a greater penetration power!

The world is dynamic...

Needs always arise and invention is the outcome

Galilee Galileo said to himself when he was a little boy "I want to go into the moon" ...he wasn't able because Haman intelligence had not yet evolved to a greater state as at then But Lo and behold !...just because he wasn't able to enter the moon didn't mean someone never entered!

Look at this...

There was a time when a famous scientists' works were reviewed long after he died, scientists discovered he was trying to invent something that already existed in a BETTER And DIFFERENT way...this had happened many times in history.

Just dedicate a week in reading science histories... you'll discover!

'Electricity ' have solved the problem of electricity and we are so preoccupied to reinvent it!

Columbus didn't circumnavigate the plannet because he lacked resources and saw land - America. He stopped. That didn't stop Ferdinand and his crew from truly circumnavigating the plannet!


The Guy who discovered photo cells and how to store charges ('somehow electric charges') wasnt set out to discover another form of electricity ) ...those are our solar panels today...
though he continued his work (but if there was no electricity... he would have stopped there and electricity today would have been just solar! which is entirely different from this ancient electricity ...it doesn't even depends on it. )

Solar(reuseable ) energy is another "electricity" which does not depend on "electricity" AND can do what "electricity" can do and can do what "electricity" can't do which makes it better than "electricity". (oboy? abi yhu Don forget? ).

airsaylongcon:
I laugh when people hypothesise. Something better? Like? The fact remains those guys built the theory on which electricity is based on. My point really is that without the theory there won't be any practice. If there is no computer science theory there is no programming. If you don't know how the theory works, you can never be a top notch programmer. This is the point

You make me laugh.. really.
look, the fact that mama Jenifer at lagos uses manufactured leather to package her moimoi does not mean mama Ene somewhere at Ipole-owukpa cannot use banana leaves (of which gives the okpa / moimoi a more yummy taste ).

I bet you don't know saw dust can be used to cook in a stylish tin (a way more efficient than kerosene... no whiteman gave any "theory" for that... tws hard necessity of a naija person who never learnt physics ) .

white men never thought us how to make fire... though our ancestors ate roasted meat!.

The cocoa we planted before the arrival of the white men was natural and healthy (they stole some and brought bournvita... brought bqck some genetically modified (dangerous ) species... brought back theories of 'best ways to plant cocoa ' - WTF... did they give us those useless theories before they stole our naturally cultivated cocoa? ...(before I forget my last bracket - for a proper nesting , let me add it ))

We had cotton, we used cotton to spin yerns to simple clothing - no theories.

we were intelligent enough to make and shoot arrows without knowledge of projectiles... we killed animals without angle of projection.

When I was in the U.S, I usually got some old folks drunk and saw how some...

(I Don vex. I'll charge my battery and come back ) OP - Iam sorry sha

airsaylongcon:
U fail to get the point! Without Einstein or Newton there would be no electrician! There would be no electricity in the first place. You cannot be a top notch programmer if you do not know the theory if computer science. Average programmes yes but never top-notch. If you doubt it let me drop one question for you here that will leave you in twist for days

Oboy, you should be more intelligent than this na... na war for you oo.

…yes, there MAY be no electricity...there would have been something better! (so sad students go to school improving on those ancient stuffs... not many realize they could invent a primary thing any longer ).

Look, before the white men came to spoil us with their technology... we had ours. We had things they actually stole the idea... if the white man hadn't brought an airplane.... one day, an African would have made something that's not an airplane... but flies like one (and used it to discover those white men ).
Sincere white men said if they had left us. our innovations would have been unbeatable.
Oneday, if you're oppotuned to see an alien plannet with intellectual / intelligent beings like us. you would be amazed.


1. There would be no 'electricity ' because there was no... ...some kind of crazy intelligent scientists
2. There would be no 'what we call car... maybe something better or worse.
3. ...

...oboy no talk like that abeg.

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Raypawer:
Am not totally condeming those video, but what am saying which is the truth is that they will not and will never show you or teach you everything...

P.O.C: No human nor machine can teach you everything...you Learn from the videos and do more research for yourself (na your type wan learn hac-ing and dey type "download complete PDF on how to hac-k" abi )

Limerick:
Can I make money off Programming? As in become a real-time earner?

YES!... forget what these pple are saying and settle for php + MySQL. na there money dey! (you can replace PHP with Django, JSP, or Rails in the future if you feel somehow )

ysd01:
Haba Bros, when you write OOP code... you can reuse it, do more with less code. e.g creating a class that needs some properties where it is already somewhere, you just INHERIT the parent class, OOP code is also modular than pp. polymorphism where you treat objects in several forms, etc. this are my reason for saying that.

Seems asiv you just learn with PDFs. without putting into real-world practice... most times, your program WILL never need inheritance. (na your type dey buy Ferrari (for example) go farm... just because it's trending )

Raypawer:
Php as a whole is not secured, neither is it a language i would advise any to learn, i thank God i had a good tutor nd experienced programmers arround me that told me the truth. if u want to end as an average web programmer, stick to php, otherwise get out of that zone it has never helped and would'nt help...!

are you serious? Tell that to Facebook

Raypawer:
i totally disagree with number 3, you can say average or php programmers flod the market, as you would hardly find those that can write a program that can speak to hardware like thumb print scanner, face recognition app, gate opener, not to even talk of SAP ERP, IOT, Embeded systems, etc Thats why it is said that come 2o...
it will not get better as many other sectors are getting automated, it calls for more programmers.

Learn those stuff... waka with ur CV till you tire (for naija )...the money is with the underatted PHP ...I left those things... just a few months with PHP... levels Don change. PHP... I Rep you!

ysd01:
People Usually see Programmers as super humans with special powers to command computers. But this is not true, as every person grows in his profession through practice the same applies to a computer programmer, [Read more...] they are just people who know how to speak to computers and nothing more, But wait, let us see the ten things a programmers wants a non-programmer to know about them.


0. Programmers start counting from zero .
1. Becoming a doctor o...

10. It can be bad for your health if you're not careful (programmers sit a lot, they stare at a glowing screen all day, they type a lot). But it does retain a healthy brain because they're always solving problems.

source: https://techneer./2016/05/31/ten-things-non-programmers-should-know-about-programmers/

Lol. My mum and every one around me are really scared now. I stay more than 15hrs standby on My desktop. I don't have a black spec (I'll try to get one soon though ).

My Mom and some others keep warning me of the feature health challenges I may experience... but I just keep wishing my Mom was a core programmer like me. Iam currently working on something... something I thank God (literally ) daily.. for giving me such unique idea... it's something that would change the mindset of programmers / web devs. it's not a forum, not a social network... just nothing you can imagine yet .


Iam so anxious of completing the entirely new idea... #can't wait... that means #can't sleep too !


Phewww!

……OP. Your title conflicts your post. You mentioned 11 thing's

foldl:
@logicalhumour I suspect you're trolling but I'll answer your question in the off chance that you're not.

That is how you create a user in mysql but not quite in the same sense as creating a user account for users on your site. Creating a user in this manner is similar to creating a Windows user (I.e. the type you use to login to your laptop after booting) for every user of your site. So, in reality you only need just one (or a couple for things like replication, backup etc) such mysql user.

Your website will then use this one mysql user to connect to the mysql server. In addition to having this mysql user you must create a database in mysql and explicitly grant access to that database to this user. Within this database you also must create a table in which the actual login credentials of users of your site will be stored.

To recap, use the mysql user account to connect to a specific database on your mysql server. When connected create a record in a table with username and password for your site's user.

PS: For one who claims to have 'years as a programmer' and given your username it is hard to believe that you're not just trolling with this question. However, am glad to be punked.

Lol... Thanks... but how on earth do you think its real

Thanks everyone. I'm no longer bordered. @tr3y - this link php.about.com/od/troubleshooting/qt/view_source.htm.added to What u said

foldl:
1. Store your connection parameters as environment variables and read them in with the getenv function.
2. Store your connection parameters in a php file outside your server's webroot (not in www or any sub folder inside www), i.e. the file containing the parameters should not be accessible to anyone visiting your site in the browser. Require this file in the source file where you need to use the parameters.

but if I do this, am I not ...like allowing port 80 to access my computer?. If its hosted, wouldn't port 80 have to communicate with something outside the server which is my physical computer?

but if I do this, am I not ...like allowing port 80 to access my computer?. If its hosted, wouldn't port 80 have to communicate with something outside the server which is my physical computer?

tr3y:
Your question is not clear.

What iam trying to say is... can't someone get my connection password by viewing sourcecode?

losprince:
you still need to choose the database you wish to connect to

try mysqli_select_db(“database_name“);

No... my point is not how to connect

I want to log my user in on my site... the username and password are in a table of my site's database

Now I'll have to login with root (for instance ) because it has enough permission to carry out the operation. ie
mysqli_connect ('host', 'username', 'password')
to check this table and retrieve data …but that would appear in my source code. Help me out please. Thanks