[Moonbat]

I do have another habit, although it's not necessarily related to programming. Anytime I am doing anything on the computer, I have to save it every 30 seconds or so; Ctrl-S is my most often used shortcut. I am suprised (and somewhat scared) that people type out 3 pages of an essay on "Document1"

[Locke]

Dizdain, on 13 Nov, 2008 - 02:19 PM, said:

Although not a direct relation to programming language, I often attempt to find a save point before doing something and just reload reality afterwards if it doesn't work out.

Spoken like a true RPG player. I'll let you decide if that's a compliment or insult.

[KYA]

Hell, after playing Fallout 3 for a while I keep pressing F5 or thinking about F5 during the day..

Spoiler

F5 is quick save

[gabehabe]

I always hit F9 to compile and run my programs. F9 is the Code::Blocks shortcut, F5 is #Develop.

I write shorthand stuff, and look at everything logically.

example:
if (code_speak){
// damn
}

&& I do stuff like write or as || and 'and' as &&



There's a lot more but I can't be bothered to type it.

I look at stuff recursively.

[GWatt]

Actually, I have had a couple fumbles.
I have tried to end emails with ":wq" a few times, as well as typing "exit" to try to terminate a chat session.

[Kresha7]

counting from zero

[Locke]

Ah yes...counting from zero.

That gets bad when you're trying to compute Reimann Sums in Calculus. The teacher starts from one...I've actually started from zero before and gone to n - 1.

[absynthe]

Kresha7, on 14 Nov, 2008 - 09:28 AM, said:

counting from zero

That is a good one!! DO THAT TOO!!

[NeoTifa]

I think of everything as a switch statement.

switch (call_off) {
case(yes)
get_fired();
break;
case(no)
still_employed();
break;
default
break;
}

[chili5]

Yeah counting from zero is a big one, that I do often.

I haven't gotten any bad habits from programming, that I can think of except for 0 to n-1, but who doesn't do that?

[5ubw0r1d]

Moonbat, on 13 Nov, 2008 - 03:16 PM, said:

I do have another habit, although it's not necessarily related to programming. Anytime I am doing anything on the computer, I have to save it every 30 seconds or so; Ctrl-S is my most often used shortcut. I am suprised (and somewhat scared) that people type out 3 pages of an essay on "Document1"

ctl-s is a favourite of mine as well.

NeoTifa, on 14 Nov, 2008 - 08:58 AM, said:

I think of everything as a switch statement.

switch (call_off) {
case(yes)
get_fired();
break;
case(no)
still_employed();
break;
default
break;
}

As is the switch statement way of thinking.

[polymath]

I have a tendency to end sentences with semicolens;

I also use terms that i find simple in conversations only to be shunned by my less-enlightened peers;

I agree with the certian feeling of superiority over the computer that i don't get with a person;

I think that the escoteric knowledge that is programming should be much more accessible to the public;

And Finally i tend to think diferently then other people, though i don't count that as a bad thing, simply a differant style of orginization, even among other programmers.

[Locke]

polymath, on 15 Nov, 2008 - 08:29 AM, said:

I have a tendency to end sentences with semicolens;

Clearly...

You ended every piece of that post with a semicolon.

[KYA]

Probably done on purpose;

[Andora]

This topic is awesome! I had no idea my strangeness was so common among programmers.

Most of it is rather trivial, but the thing that bothers me the most is how other people view programming. To all my friends, "code" is complete gibberish, even though it uses fairly recognizable words: "if" "else" "and" etc... I'm not a super genius! I'm just not afraid of gibberish!

Another one of my bad habits is viewing images in notepad and looking for patterns. That freaks everybody out.