I'm smoking so hard that I failed a basic assignment

[K.I.L.E.R]

I have 75% for my programming assignment.

My C++ was flawless (thankfully) but my visual basic assignments clear button didn't do 1 extra thing so I didn't get marks for that.

Want to know the dumbshit part?

I was so retarded that I accidentally placed my C++/VB printed code into my HTML assignment and lost marks for that. (2 marks)
Not only that but I didn't do the validation for the specific VB buttons.
Lost more marks with that.

45/60

Then comes my shitty HTML assignment. I got 39/40 because I was so fucking retarded that I didn't leave the form alone when it was working PERFECTLY!
That's right, it was working exactly as it should and the teacher had seen it and so had everyone else. It was perfect until I fucked it up as usual. Great going there you fucking retarded loser.

I AM FUCKING SHIT!

I am pissed because the mistakes I had made were stupid mistakes. If those mistakes were common mistakes then I would be okay and I would have let it go. Now with hindsight I find out that ALL these mistakes would have been prevented if I had used a little [un]common sense.

See? I am a dumbshit for sitting on my lazy ass and not doing things properly with a little [un]common sense.

So how does this relate to my topic? Well I believe I failed. I don't care what I have compared to everyone elses as I am not competinig against anyone else. I have failed because I didn't go as good as I knew I should have.

 

[Legion]

Code monkeys .

Well I will be the first to say as a member of Beyond3d i would be glad to throw you a pitty party! How would that make you feel?

We as the members of B3d could sob collectively for you and your momentary laps of better judgement. Imagine the tender sweet emmotion pooring forth from the sensitive and open hearts of the forum goers. So pitiful indeed I wax poetic! What better to help you understand just how much we care about you and your mistakes? Can you hear their cries KILER? Can you? I can. We love you so very much Kiler. You and your momentary incompetence.

Later, after the torrent of tears, we could help you find some one to blame for your errors in order to better serve or futher your diluded belief in personal perfection. After all how could this be your fault?

What more can you ask for?

Better yet we could gather in a merry and joyous group spanking! Yes Kiler! Does your heart not yield to the over powering presence of B3d as your intangible collective parent? You deserve to be punished, Kiler. I think you realize this. We think you have been naughty as well. Why else would you tell us all of this unless you yourself wanted to be punished Kiler?

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[K.I.L.E.R]

What more can you ask for?

Help me become better at coding?
Offer some advice?

BTW: 75% is not anywhere near perfect.

 

[Legion]

we can. Oh we can. But the spanking comes first.

 

[jvd]

What more can you ask for?

Help me become better?

fine for every point you lost do 50 laps around your block naked. That will teach you to mess up .

 

[Legion]

What more can you ask for?

Help me become better?

fine for every point you lost do 50 laps around your block naked. That will teach you to mess up .

sooosh! The spanking must come first. There is no learning without the spanking.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Guys, this is serious.

I made some stupid errors. I doubt any of you guys on here make them on a VERY simple assignment.

I obviously need help if I am going to get such crappy marks in the future (especially for the more advanced stuff). I can't afford to be getting such low marks next semester.

This is utterly unacceptable.

I want to know what you guys do to avoid such dreaded mistakes.

 

[jvd]

Guys, this is serious.

I made some stupid errors. I doubt any of you guys on here make them on a VERY simple assignment.

I obviously need help if I am going to get such crappy marks in the future (especially for the more advanced stuff). I can't afford to be getting such low marks next semester.

This is utterly unacceptable.

I want to know what you guys do to avoid such dreaded mistakes.

I forgot to stop a looping program at one point and i got really pissed and couldn't figure out what the problem was for a week. The program would just loop and loop and loop and it was happening so fast i couldn't see the data. So yea... that was dumb . Btw i'm still in school. Mistakes happen. Thats part of life.

 

[Legion]

So what did Fat Albert an his gang learn t-day? Mistakes happen!

See you again kids. Tanks for eatin the puddin

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Guys, this is serious.

I made some stupid errors. I doubt any of you guys on here make them on a VERY simple assignment.

I obviously need help if I am going to get such crappy marks in the future (especially for the more advanced stuff). I can't afford to be getting such low marks next semester.

This is utterly unacceptable.

I want to know what you guys do to avoid such dreaded mistakes.

I forgot to stop a looping program at one point and i got really pissed and couldn't figure out what the problem was for a week. The program would just loop and loop and loop and it was happening so fast i couldn't see the data. So yea... that was dumb . Btw i'm still in school. Mistakes happen. Thats part of life.

A. I am attending this place

B. I am 18 years old.

C. I don't have any trouble with the code.

D. The mistakes I made are stupid.

E. Problems with loops are common and do not mean you are stupid because you didn't get it right the first few times.

Mistakes happen

They occured where they should not have.

 

[Sabastian]

It is good you recognize you are responsible for failing. All you can do is take the hit, try harder next time and don't quit.

Sabastian

 

[jvd]

thats where mistakes normaly do happen. Its the places they shouldn't c ause your paying attention to all the things you should be having problems or you are not good at.

Basicly don't wait till the last day to finish your project or start it . Leave enough time to bug fix it. Run it a few times before you hand it in so you know it works. Check your code and have friends check it. If its not broke don't fix it . Remember what you did wrong this time and don't do it again. That way you wont mess up.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks for the advice guys. Keep it coming.

 

[Legion]

I have just the thing to cheer you up!

Get ahold of the MP3 entitled Kermit the frog on weed.

 

[Kristof]

I am pissed because the mistakes I had made were stupid mistakes.

Did you ever make a clever mistake then ? 8)

IMHO everybody does this and after a while you get used to it... I used to have this when doing maths exams, perfect technique/idea on how to solve something and then fuck up on the basic adding up of 2 numbers Gets better when you have to go and defend your exam so you can actually go and explain your technique and you can talk your way out of the stupid little details.

K~

 

[Ilfirin]

I used to have this when doing maths exams, perfect technique/idea on how to solve something and then fuck up on the basic adding up of 2 numbers Gets better when you have to go and defend your exam so you can actually go and explain your technique and you can talk your way out of the stupid little details.

K~

Yeah, that happened to me a few times. Despite knowing everything perfectly (ok, probably not quite right, but there was never a question I didn't know exactly how to solve) in my Calculus classes, I never once got a full 100/100 on a test. There was always one or two problems where for no reason at all a stupid mistake was made and that answer was on the test. The most annoying part is how no one seems to understand - everyone does this, but whenever someone other than them does it they get pissed and yell at you despite the fact that they do it all the time too. They tell you the only reason it happens is that you don't study hard enough.. so you study harder and harder, lose more and more sleep, get more and more pissed off at yourself and go back there and 9 times out of 10 make more stupid mistakes than you did before. Then you have to listen to the instructor bitch and moan again. Seems everyone has their own theories for why this happens and how to fix it, and all of them are wrong. The "education" system really sucks.

[Edit] As for advice, I would just say don't stress too much over it. For the above situation I ended up just not caring about the stupid little insignificant mistakes and they all but went away. Whenever you come across them, look at them see what it was you did wrong, check to make sure if it actually was a fundamental thinking problem and if it is try and fix your way of thinking, if it isn't just correct your mistake and move on. Life is too short for this stuff.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Did you ever make a clever mistake then ?

LOL! That's a good one.

I believe that there are 2 types of mistakes.

1. Casual not so bad mistakes. Not costly/or too costly anyway

2. Mistakes that can cost you. IE: stupid mistakes.

In this case, it cost me a few marks. I passed the actual assignment but not to the standards I had set. So hence, I believe it is a failure.

 

[Fred]

Everyone does them, from the college kid all the way to the great ones.

Theres a classic paper by Einstein where he divides by a quantity that could be zero (though its nice and subtetly hidden), and leads him down a whole lengthy chain of reasoning that was completely wrong. He retracted the paper, though it was realized that there were key points that were valid.

One of my proffessors, says that its the mistakes that make the scientist. You tend to learn more from them, than you do from just memorizing aimlessly. Theres a certain nasty emotion thats attached every time one fails.. Thats a good thing.

There are little tricks you can use that help. Like dimensional analysis, and sanity checks (Hmm my answer is 1e35.. that doesn't make sense), as well as plugging back into the original question if time permits.
Sometimes there are alternate ways to solve problems, and if the answers dont match its typically math mistakes somewhere.

Personally its always been a bit of a problem for me, I tend to concentrate so much on the physicality or crux of the problem, that the little details are often sloppily done. Fortunately there are computers software nowdays and calculators. But even then, the devil is in the details.

 

[Gubbi]

Only one way get rid of sloppy code: test, test and more tests.

Cheers
Gubbi

 

[epicstruggle]

late in my sophomore year in college, i made an extremely stupid mistake in one of my programs for a big project. Took me a solid day of debugging to get to the problem. Didnt sleep for about 36 hours which might have been why it took so long to catch the error. anyways what id did was this:
for(something);
{
code
}
you see the problem? try to catch some sleep, youll make a ton of mistakes if your sleep deprivade. btw the mistake was that ; at the end of the for line.

later,