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Programming Megathread
Drydess:
--- Quote from: devildogelite on January 20, 2016, 01:35:23 AM ---I had my first class of Operating System and Network Security today which seems like it'll be pretty cool. Our last lab is a capture the flag type of game where we try to get into someone else's computer while still defending our own. We're allowed to use any attack we want since the lab is on it's own network isolated from everything else.
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That sounds pretty damn fun...
Pecon:
--- Quote from: Flame on January 20, 2016, 01:54:24 AM ---what the forget can i sign up for this class???
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--- Quote from: Becquerel on January 20, 2016, 02:50:20 AM ---woah
damn
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--- Quote from: Drydess on January 20, 2016, 03:04:04 AM --- That sounds pretty damn fun...
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It seems fun on the surface, but information security is a really tough profession. Requires a ton of knowledge and extremely good problem solving skills, significantly more than needed for just programming.
McJob:
Been studying DirectX 11 all night. This stuff is cool man. I mean, all I've got is a blue background so far, but I actually understand what's going on, and I like that.
I'm surprised I understand pointers as well as I do. It's just a matter of remembering to release any borrowed memory now >.<
Becquerel:
--- Quote from: McJob on January 20, 2016, 07:03:53 AM ---Been studying DirectX 11 all night. This stuff is cool man. I mean, all I've got is a blue background so far, but I actually understand what's going on, and I like that.
I'm surprised I understand pointers as well as I do. It's just a matter of remembering to release any borrowed memory now >.<
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Thats pretty cool
Do the projects you do for game design involve DX11?
devildogelite:
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on January 20, 2016, 01:40:32 AM ---that sounds fun. what is the thing you're trying to get off their computer?
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I'm not a 100% sure, it's like our final lab for the class putting everything we ever did throughout the semester to use. Like I think it's more to see just who can properly secure their computer, I think we need to like try and break the computer so it doesn't work. It was funny the CIO for the school said something explicitly about this class and how there is 0 tolerance for any of this to happen outside of our sandbox area on the actual network.
--- Quote from: Pecon on January 20, 2016, 04:35:26 AM ---It seems fun on the surface, but information security is a really tough profession. Requires a ton of knowledge and extremely good problem solving skills, significantly more than needed for just programming.
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Yeah once you get into it there is a lot of stuff that you need to know. I never really planned on going into a security related field after school but the degree for it is only like 3 extra classes on top of the comp sci ones, plus understanding the fundamentals of security is always a good thing. One thing that really turned me away from security is how he said almost all of those in the Computer Security field are in more of a support role, also after taking a class that touches on all of the laws, regulations, ethics and other various policies related to proper security it kind of sapped any remaining interest I had in going into the security field for work.