WOOO!!!! I got congratulated....

[bidi]

For my code! I know that's not much for you guys, but I got an ego trip yesturday when the TA for my Modeling Methods class said I had a really nice written code.

Keep in mind I'm not a programmer, and the only programming class I took was Intro to Programming. I'm majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and Modeling Methods is a required course. It pretty much just teaches numerical analysis methods, and since engineering is all about differential equations, it becomes easier to get some answers using numerical solutions. And since most of these take a few iterations to be solved, we use computers to do it, but we need to code the problems into the computer. I do all my coding in MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory), which is pretty close to C but has a lot of added mathematical functions. It's pretty much a programming language for engineers.

But anyway, back to my ego trip... So I couldn't get this one part of the code to work since Monday of last week (turns out I was multiplying a number that was going to zero and the code blew up in my face every time), and I went to the TA's office to as for help. While I'm there, and he's trying to figure out what wrong, he mentions that my code is really easy to read and well organized. Then he went on saying that people that usually go in there have their code all over the place and takes him at least 10 minutes just to figure out what's going on with it, whereas with mine, he knew what was going on from the get go.

I'm just pretty happy that I got congratulated for something that isn't even my speciality.

[sharkyro]

Have some bananas

[jimbaloo]

It's always nice to see pretty, well laid out code. That way even inexperienced programmers have a chance of understanding what's going on.

Good job.

[bryansmith]

Congrats. Banana time!


Bryan

[AlexK]

Congragts, it is always easier to debug nicely written code. Keep up the good work.

[CodeRoot]

Congratulations! Many programmers in the world should be envious! :P

[pavlo_7]

Congratulations bidi!!!
Good job!

[a thing]

[daacosta]

I do all my coding in MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory), which is pretty close to C but has a lot of added mathematical functions. It's pretty much a programming language for engineers.

MATLAB??????

First of all congrats on your clean coding

If you want open source software to do exactly what Matlab does I wholeheartedly reccomend Octave to run the program... Better yet... Can you post your code it so that I can play with Octave a little and see if we can in fact reproduce Matlab's results?

I recently installed Octave on my box and I am also going thorugh their tutorial [ I am interested in non-linear dynamics and chaos theory but I am just taking my very first steps... Since a program like Matlab was going to be needed for my quest I found about Octave and started playing with it...]

Octave's webpage is: http://www.octave.org/

Check it out! It will be rewarding

[bidi]

Yep, I know about Octave, even have it installed in my Debian box, but I've never went too much into it. I use MATLAB instead of Octave to run programs just because it's the only thing they have in school.