[aaron1178]

I was writing a tool that used a batch file to called programs. When I ran this tool in a cmd window this is what I got



Whoops I forgot the F

What has happened to you while programming that's made you laugh?

[Creecher]

Something worked for once.

[aaron1178]

I get like that sometime

[Nuko32]

I was watching a Java tutorial on YouTube, when I saw the Error 500

I laughed so hard

[Ryano121]

Once when I was pulling an all nighter to fix a pretty lethal bug I fell asleep and hit my head on the keyboard. Worst thing was my forehead hit F6 and started a 15+ minute global build. The rest of the team were not happy yet somehow managed to see the funny side of things.

However I did get to take a nap after that so it wasn't all bad.

This post has been edited by Ryano121: 22 May 2012 - 06:34 AM

[nK0de]

This is more like a WTF moment. Happened when I was working at a software shop where I was on maintaining old shitty VB6 systems. An error message saying no error!

This post has been edited by nK0de: 22 May 2012 - 07:02 AM

[Alderdragon]

Hmm, my first month of learning how to program (12th grade, C#), I asked my teacher how to convert a numeric string to an integer -- such a softball question, but we all have them. It was for a simple GUI calculator.

Anyway, her and I filled half a whiteboard with some pseudocode and after about 20 minutes we had a nice compact for-loop. It took each iteration and... well, I forget the details of it, but we used the index variable as an exponent to find the character at each place value and converted it to an int and added that to a sum.

A few weeks later I realized that you could do this just by invoking a method. Only later did I realize that she did that so I knew how and why the method worked rather than using it at face value. Since then I've taken a similar approach when it's reasonable; understanding the general logic behind something before relying on it too much. Always had a great time learning with her, it's funny how things work out. And that's in stark contrast to my high school calculus teacher, who once spent an entire period telling us that black holes don't exist instead of teaching (and this was in 2009, folks).

Other "funny" moments are just the giddy feeling of learning something powerful or useful for the first time, like objects/classes or even simple functions. I also tend to laugh at myself when I just do something completely stupidly wrong or get something to work out of sheer luck.

Sorry for rambling.

[NeoTifa]

My code actually compiled.

[no2pencil]

This was how calvinthedestroyer & I met in school :

We were in an electronics elective, & there were Commodore 64 computers. He was working on some code, & I was working some code. Eventually one of us asked the other for help, as we were sitting next to each other. We had good ideas of stuff to add to one anothers' respective program. After enough leaning & reaching & bending to see the monitor, we just swapped keyboards.

Apparently we didn't switch them back.

The teacher screamed at us because they had spent hours troubleshooting why the keyboards didn't work right, & I guess the students of the next class were using them at the same time. None of the right characters were printing.

lol.

NeoTifa, on 29 May 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

My code actually compiled.

This never happened.

[NeoTifa]

no2pencil, on 29 May 2012 - 06:18 AM, said:

NeoTifa, on 29 May 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

My code actually compiled.

This never happened.

Why do you have to call me out like that?! You never let me have anything!!!! fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[ishkabible]

hold on, I've seen Neo's code run before...right after I fixed it

[jon.kiparsky]

ishkabible, on 29 May 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

hold on, I've seen Neo's code run before...right after I fixed it

Oooh, ouch.

[NeoTifa]

I don't recall you having ever seen my codes before.

[The_Programmer-]

Same thing as @Creecher, one of my games made in Java finally worked!

[ishkabible]

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I don't recall you having ever seen my codes before.

really? about a year ago I helped you with several C++ programs in the C/C++ forum...so ha, I *DID* fix your code!