Post by hawkeyes on Nov 25, 2012 9:24:21 GMT -5
I know, "whaaaaat?"
When I was younger learning HTML, my wise and awesome teacher - master of languages both computer and human - once said to me
"Programming is like giving birth, no matter how much hair pulling and frustration you meet when you finish your project you always exclaim 'finally, that fuckin' thing is out of me!'"
At the time I was embarking on my first real project, a web page. In theory it seemed easy: design its overall look, its navigation tree and make it look at least 80% the same.
So naive. On the first part I'm no artist, my drawings of what it was supposed to look like didn't convince me much less him. I got the background stuff done in a flash, but the visual.
Move the navigation tree a few pixels up and now your body is way over there. Move it back to the way it was and now the footers are nigh but gone. Hair pulled, sweat perspired, curses cussed, life questioned, reality damned.
Eventually I got it done, keep in mind this was a few weeks into actually starting to learn HTML, I missed quite a few steps and worked around many problems that many people would scoff at. All in all I was glad it was over.
I have never, nor will I ever, feel the....ahem "joys" of giving birth (although my wife will surely let me know) I can attest to how correct my teacher was.
First joy - MY FIRST PROGRAM!!!
Next queasyness - How many pages?!
anxousness - Its due WHEN?!
somewhat normal - body/ ....hmm this isn't so bad
pain - WHY?! Just work, damn you!
deliverance - Gotta puuush through, its almost due! Puuusssshhhhh!
not wanting to see it ever again - fuck this shit, I'm never making a web page again!
loving your creation after a brief moment to vent - Aww, look at my web page, such a cute little web page!
Pride when yours is ugly, but not as ugly as the other people - AWWWW YEEEAAA!
So is it comparable? I would say...I guess so. My teacher said it so it must be right.
When I was younger learning HTML, my wise and awesome teacher - master of languages both computer and human - once said to me
"Programming is like giving birth, no matter how much hair pulling and frustration you meet when you finish your project you always exclaim 'finally, that fuckin' thing is out of me!'"
At the time I was embarking on my first real project, a web page. In theory it seemed easy: design its overall look, its navigation tree and make it look at least 80% the same.
So naive. On the first part I'm no artist, my drawings of what it was supposed to look like didn't convince me much less him. I got the background stuff done in a flash, but the visual.
Move the navigation tree a few pixels up and now your body is way over there. Move it back to the way it was and now the footers are nigh but gone. Hair pulled, sweat perspired, curses cussed, life questioned, reality damned.
Eventually I got it done, keep in mind this was a few weeks into actually starting to learn HTML, I missed quite a few steps and worked around many problems that many people would scoff at. All in all I was glad it was over.
I have never, nor will I ever, feel the....ahem "joys" of giving birth (although my wife will surely let me know) I can attest to how correct my teacher was.
First joy - MY FIRST PROGRAM!!!
Next queasyness - How many pages?!
anxousness - Its due WHEN?!
somewhat normal - body/ ....hmm this isn't so bad
pain - WHY?! Just work, damn you!
deliverance - Gotta puuush through, its almost due! Puuusssshhhhh!
not wanting to see it ever again - fuck this shit, I'm never making a web page again!
loving your creation after a brief moment to vent - Aww, look at my web page, such a cute little web page!
Pride when yours is ugly, but not as ugly as the other people - AWWWW YEEEAAA!
So is it comparable? I would say...I guess so. My teacher said it so it must be right.