stanliwise:
Benefit - I learnt things the hard way and by learning it myself I tend not to forget which made me a solid programmer

Regret-Simple concept took me too much time to master, I did waste precious times on useless stuff and was mislead many times. Lastly, I was distracted many times also.

mike272:


Same here, wasted so many resources and time but at the end, I learned a lot. Sadly now have limited fund to implement most stuff have learned

stanliwise:
Benefit - I learnt things the hard way and by learning it myself I tend not to forget which made me a solid programmer

Regret-Simple concept took me too much time to master, I did waste precious times on useless stuffs and was mislead many times. Lastly, I was distracted many times also.

explorer250:
I have been programming close to four years now. The problems I had was reading outdated books. I remember the first time I tried inserting data into a database using php, instead of using $_POST[ ] array, I used something like $post[] or something like that, I can't actually remember. took me about three weeks to realize that syntax was deprecated. This is because the first book I read was php-mysql applications by jay Greenspan and brad brugger and this is a book written either at 2000 or 2006, so I wasted a lot of time on things that doesn't matter. But the advantage I had is that I got a strong foundation in programming. I really understood concepts and this has made me capable of designing almost any type of websites. I didn't take any short cut , hence, I don't use frameworks and libraries because I can do what those frameworks and libraries could do using the original language and this increases performance. you don't need to add jquery of 300kb to your site just to perform an animation you could do with simple JavaScript and CSS. Though I could use jquery, bootstrap etc but I hardly make use of them since I don't need much from them. When I look at most dynamic web site I have already mapped out their table structure using my mind and I can see the left joins, subqueries etc. word of advice for upcoming programmers, their is no short cut to programming. you get better with time and experience and don't stop learning. in fact , I just finished a book of 300 pages yesterday which has helped me transition from procedural and function based programming to oop. the name is Learn php 7. And lastly, I learnt the hard way using PDFs and it made me develop the culture of reading programming books. so far I have read at least 15 PDFs on php, 9 PDFs on JavaScript, four PDFs on HTML, 5 pdfs on CSS, 7 PDFs on SQL coupled with few videos and active participation on solo learn.

explorer250:
I have been programming close to four years now. The problems I had was reading outdated books. I remember the first time I tried inserting data into a database using php, instead of using $_POST[ ] array, I used something like $post[] or something like that, I can't actually remember. took me about three weeks to realize that syntax was deprecated. This is because the first book I read was php-mysql applications by jay Greenspan and brad brugger and this is a book written either at 2000 or 2006, so I wasted a lot of time on things that doesn't matter. But the advantage I had is that I got a strong foundation in programming. I really understood concepts and this has made me capable of designing almost any type of websites. I didn't take any short cut , hence, I don't use frameworks and libraries because I can do what those frameworks and libraries could do using the original language and this increases performance. you don't need to add jquery of 300kb to your site just to perform an animation you could do with simple JavaScript and CSS. Though I could use jquery, bootstrap etc but I hardly make use of them since I don't need much from them. When I look at most dynamic web site I have already mapped out their table structure using my mind and I can see the left joins, subqueries etc. word of advice for upcoming programmers, their is no short cut to programming. you get better with time and experience and don't stop learning. in fact , I just finished a book of 300 pages yesterday which has helped me transition from procedural and function based programming to oop. the name is Learn php 7. And lastly, I learnt the hard way using PDFs and it made me develop the culture of reading programming books. so far I have read at least 15 PDFs on php, 9 PDFs on JavaScript, four PDFs on HTML, 5 pdfs on CSS, 7 PDFs on SQL coupled with few videos and active participation on solo learn.

sadiqsalau888:


I have to say you are just like me.
I hate frameworks. I don't use shortcuts, code everything from
scratch. Reading is the only key to success. When i was studying webgl I got more knowledge on how the gpu works....

I have to say you just said everything..

explorer250:
I went through your website and I love your site! what API did you call to automatically update the scores?

explorer250:
I went through your website and I love your site! what API did you call to automatically update the scores?

sadiqsalau888:


it's a custom api i designed

explorer250:

I mean how don you update the scores like livescores? I believe you must be calling an external api to fetch the current scores, maybe in Jason format which you can use to update the scores on your website. or do you update manually?

explorer250:

I mean how don you update the scores like livescores? I believe you must be calling an external api to fetch the current scores, maybe in Jason format which you can use to update the scores on your website. or do you update manually?

ProfAmaben:


He can't update manually, it must be retrieved from an API, probably a LiveScore API with scores, country, leagues etc in json format. Except he's watching all the matches concurrently and updating in real time which is impossible.

explorer250:


lol I know that must be the case. if he doesn't get what I am saying then that means he is using an already written php script

ProfAmaben:


Most programmers just clone repositories and form jagaban. I prefer slow learning and mastery than hurry hurry and copy paste.




I may be wrong here though, although quite surprised he didn't understand what you meant by API

explorer250:


from his picture he looked young and I was wondering when he started coding to reach the level to be able to create that websites from scratch. this is Nigeria, you hardly see any teenager coding.

ProfAmaben:


Most programmers just clone repositories and form jagaban. I prefer slow learning and mastery than hurry hurry and copy paste.




I may be wrong here though, although quite surprised he didn't understand what you meant by API

sadiqsalau888:



i get you but that's not it,,,
because it's closed source. I can't give you any reference to a code.

ProfAmaben:


Young programmer, don't say what you don't know. Did he ask you to give him access to your code? Why are you telling us about your code being closed sourced? He only asked you if an API is being used to get the scores or if you were the one that created the API.
If you can't give reference to a code, why are you advertising it?

sadiqsalau888:


i'm sorry sir. It's not what i meant, usually an api has a documentation page e.g paystack..