That's what she said.OrangeHound wrote:
You have to get your hands inside the things and tinker in order to learn.
But I learned from the internet and my dad, he used to do IT
But I learned from the internet and my dad, he used to do IT
Grew up with a 386 So I spent lots of time on that. The biggest time of learning came when I first built my own computer 3 or 4 years ago, learned a lot about hardware then. Built another computer a year ago, and I learned even more thanks to the Internet. Plus every now and then I'll read some threads from the Tech section out of curiosity.
1. Parents bought family Speccy +3.
2. Got BTEC Computer Studies.
3. Got A-Level Computer Studies.
4. Got BENG(hons) Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems.
5. Worked with and owned numerous PCs (including some self-built).
6. Kept up-to-date using t'internet and books.
2. Got BTEC Computer Studies.
3. Got A-Level Computer Studies.
4. Got BENG(hons) Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems.
5. Worked with and owned numerous PCs (including some self-built).
6. Kept up-to-date using t'internet and books.
Well I have been into computer my whole life. My fascination started with my very first computer, a hand me down from my dad, a Pentium 166mhz. I moved on to bigger and better things, including a pentium 3 1.0ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Clawhammer (which i sold for a pretty penny just recently), and lastly the computer I have now, a Q6600, on a 750i FTW mobo. I bought all the parts myself and assembled it with my buddy who really got me into computers again.
I just completed my BSc Computer Science and where i got that there was effectively no difference between the IT and CS courses. That's probably because the uni (Curtin Uni) sucked ass, but still.TheAussieReaper wrote:
I've just finished my Bachelor of Information Technology at University so picked up my programming skills, etc from there.
I'd like better computer science skills atm, rather than the IT based side.
As for learning shit it was mostly through hands on trial and error + lots of troubleshooting problems for myself and friends. For all the information you may be able to learn from a course, you'd be better off figuring it out for yourself. My mother is a perfect example of this as she has done several computing courses and still can't use a computer.
Forums are really the best place to learn about computers because you can ask a question and someone will know the answer. That's how I've learned everything I know.
Dad bought a TRS-80 (Model I) back in the late 70's, '78 or '79, I guess I was about 11 or 12, it only had like 16k memory, but it was upgradeable to 32k. It was the one that you hooked up to your TV also.
We had a couple of games, Star Trek being one of them, although the game was only in text, telling you what your ship was encountering, and you had to make a guess as to how to move your ship, very frustrating. I don't remember what the other game was, wasn't much though.
Dad had rigged the TRS-80 up to a cassette player as our "tape drive" so to speak, plus I remember him saying that you could hook it to a phone cradle, and one computer could talk to another computer. I remember thinking this would be to have our computer connect with another one, and be able to talk someone else on it. Little did I know. We never did get a "modem" for it though.
I guess my first experience with a "real" computer was the Apple II we had in high school. We had one in our drafting class, never really learned to use it though, as we got it at the end of my senior year, and didn't really mess around with it much.
As for modern computers 386's and up, dad had a 386 that ran at like 12mhz on the processor, don't recall how much memory it had, seems like 128k. Don't recall what size the HDD was, tiny though compared to todays.
I bough my first computer in '98, 486, 366mhz processor, 64mb ram, 360 0r 400mb HDD, got an AoHell accont, and I've been on ever since. Although not on AoHell, dropped them less than 3 months after I got them.
Built my first pc about 5 years ago. P4 @ 3ghz, 2gb pc3200, 120gb HDD, 17"CRT. I've since built two others for my sister and nephew.
Hardware would be my forte' I suppose, as I don't know programming.
We had a couple of games, Star Trek being one of them, although the game was only in text, telling you what your ship was encountering, and you had to make a guess as to how to move your ship, very frustrating. I don't remember what the other game was, wasn't much though.
Dad had rigged the TRS-80 up to a cassette player as our "tape drive" so to speak, plus I remember him saying that you could hook it to a phone cradle, and one computer could talk to another computer. I remember thinking this would be to have our computer connect with another one, and be able to talk someone else on it. Little did I know. We never did get a "modem" for it though.
I guess my first experience with a "real" computer was the Apple II we had in high school. We had one in our drafting class, never really learned to use it though, as we got it at the end of my senior year, and didn't really mess around with it much.
As for modern computers 386's and up, dad had a 386 that ran at like 12mhz on the processor, don't recall how much memory it had, seems like 128k. Don't recall what size the HDD was, tiny though compared to todays.
I bough my first computer in '98, 486, 366mhz processor, 64mb ram, 360 0r 400mb HDD, got an AoHell accont, and I've been on ever since. Although not on AoHell, dropped them less than 3 months after I got them.
Built my first pc about 5 years ago. P4 @ 3ghz, 2gb pc3200, 120gb HDD, 17"CRT. I've since built two others for my sister and nephew.
Hardware would be my forte' I suppose, as I don't know programming.
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mostly using them since a young age (had an old IMB laptop my neighbor gave me)
but most of the technical stuff i learned from haffey and trial & error
but most of the technical stuff i learned from haffey and trial & error
DeathUnlimited wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
By my own hands and a lot of junk.
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
i had to fix my dads (rA)
الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام
...show me the schematic
...show me the schematic
Learned at home. Then 2 years of computers at my high school and then 6 months of college.
I learned basic stuff during high school on a 486 66mhz we had at home and then on my celery 333 I bought after graduation. Mostly how to use basic programs and such. A few years ago I got back in to computers and was instantly hooked on the hardware side. I learned how to build from a friend and after that I learned about OCing and more advanced tweaking from forums (mostly ocforums.com).
Bf2s, internet, my dad.
Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:
Bf2s, internet, my dad.
Fixed.SpIk3y wrote:
Forums are really the best place to learn about computers because you can ask a question and someone will spam and you will never have an answer. That's how I've learned everything I know.
School, my mom's friend, BF2s.
I did courses on PC repair a few years back, you can learn to build a PC in a few hours on the net though, it's really easy, there's nothing complicated about it, repairing isn't exactly hard either, but you do need to learn what to look for and courses are best for that.
On my own & web
3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8
Then you go to the wrong forums for such information.Andoura wrote:
Fixed.SpIk3y wrote:
Forums are really the best place to learn about computers because you can ask a question and someone will spam and you will never have an answer. That's how I've learned everything I know.
Got a Commodore 64 when I was 10; wrote my first program in BASIC.
Learned a bit more on BBCs in highschool, then got a 286 and learned a bit about DOS.
Went to uni for a while to do computer science; flunked out and worked for my uncle doing database stuff.
Got a friend to build me a computer (for BF1942), and learned a bit about hardware.
Got BF2 and it sent be crazy not being able to fix all the problems or get good framerate; built a new system.
Now back at uni studying computer science.
Learned a bit more on BBCs in highschool, then got a 286 and learned a bit about DOS.
Went to uni for a while to do computer science; flunked out and worked for my uncle doing database stuff.
Got a friend to build me a computer (for BF1942), and learned a bit about hardware.
Got BF2 and it sent be crazy not being able to fix all the problems or get good framerate; built a new system.
Now back at uni studying computer science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFMIrishGrimReaper wrote:
How did you learn about Computers?
Americas Army actually.
It was the first online and demanding game i've played.
The game started going slow so i asked some tech people and they started talking about CPU, Graphic cards etc.
So I asked them and one of them kindly told me almost everything.
It was the first online and demanding game i've played.
The game started going slow so i asked some tech people and they started talking about CPU, Graphic cards etc.
So I asked them and one of them kindly told me almost everything.
- Self taught, mostly trial and error.
- Common sense.
- Also hardware manuals (as in, like documentation that comes with a new motherboard).
- Magazine or two.
- My dad
- Internet guides.
- Common sense.
- Also hardware manuals (as in, like documentation that comes with a new motherboard).
- Magazine or two.
- My dad
- Internet guides.
Possibly the most under-utilised resource ever. (see also: instructions for programming VCRs).liquidat0r wrote:
- Also hardware manuals (as in, like documentation that comes with a new motherboard).
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Max, Freezer and DU mainly
