<p>flopsy was a guy. he died in a car accident early 2008. 
:'(</p>
<p>[right]RIP flopsy[/right]</p>
<p>GrassBandit,</p>
<p>R u making this up? I receive a private message from him in June 2008. He was very kind and do not ridicule my writing-English grammar (though I can speak and write fluently in 3 other languages). I know he graduated last year and working LA-area.<br>
It is is truth my heart go out to him.
Regards, UCLA-2011-mom</p>
<p>grassbandit, i really hope you were just making this up. he seemed like a very nice guy.</p>
<p>Hahaha, people actually believe it. He may be “dead” from CC, but he’s working in Sherman Oaks last we’ve heard from him.</p>
<p>He was passing out packets for engineering open house a few years ago … when I first met him :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^ that’s when i first met him, too.</p>
<p>and grassbandit, you’re an idiot.</p>
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<p>that’s what i meant! :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>don’t attack me :(</p>
<p>That’s where we met him too with our S1. Honestly he was a very kind and throughful gentleman. We have few questions about S2 U out of state. He go beyond answering the basic. Even found out for us the Chair of the department was the founder of C++. Don’t joke about death, being an Allied Health Care Professional working in the Medical-Center, I have see a fair share of it. Glad this is all not truth. Many thanks to so many of you senior member taking over this forum and kept it alive.
Regards, UCLA-2011-mom</p>
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<p>Hey guys, I’m CSE, gonna be 2nd year, and up till now (CS31-33) the stuff we learned is mostly theoretical.
I was wondering if we get to do some more “useful” stuff anytime soon where we implement our code with GUI using GTK, QT4 etc or graphical stuff with OpenGL/D3D.
I was also wondering if we get to do any database coding like SQL, languages oriented for web (like PHP, Ajax…).
Furthermore, do you CS people learn these stuff by yourselves in your spare time? Or do we learn these in the later CS courses (ie CS131, CS111, CS electives)? Or how else are we supposed to be “prepared in the more practical sense” alongside UCLA’s CS courses?
Sorry for asking so many questions, but the reason is that most internship/job requirements I see ask for a lot of stuff. So I was thinking if it’s critical to get more acquainted with these stuff during my spare time.</p>
<p>C++ is useful stuff…</p>
<p>^ …to some</p>
<p>You guys are right, it really isn’t that important to learn one of the most widely used programming languages.</p>
<p>My mistake.</p>
<p>It really depends on where you end up working. Learn how to work with different languages helps, Ruby on Rails, understanding PHP/mySQL, Python, etc.</p>
<p>Deuces has it right :)</p>
<p>I feel like a fob, I keep forgetting the -ing’s and all sorts of characters. loool. And by the way, the open source community rules. So get involved if you can. (Drupal! Drupal! Drupal!)</p>
<p>I don’t think I said C++ is not useful at any moment.
My question is if we will soon start to use it to make real applications, including a GUI, database, able to access the net, and such.
Another small reason is that some people asked me if I could make some program for them (they were gonna pay a reasonable amount if I could do it in a short amount of time). The thing is I knew the theory behind it and how to implement it with C++ but it would be kind of lame to give them a “cmd prompt” program. It would require a reasonable GUI, and some database, in order to make it marketable at the least.</p>
<p>Edit: Yeah, I looked into Drupal last year and experimented with it for a while. Joomla also seems equally good.</p>
<p>Joomla and Drupal definitely are both good, they have differences (which I’m sure you know about), that make them better for some users/uses than others.</p>
<p>ooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>you can tell i’m an engineer by my reading comprehension :)</p>
<p>I don’t think we do GUI stuff, which is kinda lame IMO. I’m probably going to learn PHP myself, so yeah, I guess you do just kinda pick stuff up on your own.</p>
<p>Check class listings for languages you want to learn? Idk :P</p>
<p>jiceo1, I know exactly how you feel. I wish we learned how to do stuff with a GUI and pretty much make a piece of software all the way through from concept to coding to finalized product with gui, I think that would be insanely cool. But so far, I’m going to be a junior and I still haven’t gone as in depth as I’d like to. </p>
<p>In CS 111 all we did was pretty much code in C, but nothing totally hugely in depth like writing pages from scratch since pretty much everything was skeleton code.</p>
<p>But, I think there is a databases class where you learn database languages, but yea I know how you feel man I wish I knew way more and specifically more web based languages and stuff I feel like I’m way behind what some people already know just from their outside school learnings.</p>
<p>To be honest, I think you should all try and go out yourselves and do some volunteer/open source project coding to get really motivated. I don’t currently have the technical background to do so, but it’s just one of those things where you have to keep looking for learning outside the university. Take it upon yourself to find something to do - there’s a whole TON of jobs/internships out there if you can learn some of these languages. [Startuply:</a> Startup companies. Startup jobs.](<a href=“http://startuply.com/#/intern%20in%2095111/3]Startuply:”>http://startuply.com/#/intern%20in%2095111/3) and I believe Daily Venture has some stuff too once you get more experienced. </p>
<p>Short story: Friend of mine is a ME major, works with another guy and they put up mylifeisaverage.com - How awesome is that?</p>
<p>Moral: Just do it. And as for classes, search for wiki-universities and open universities (try MIT’s open course listings).</p>