Poll: How tech-savy are you?

[Something Amyss]

I know some code, but my cat is the real genius. She upgraded my computer, cleaned the mouse, and even included this new Flux Capacitor thingy.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

ummm how i being a coder making you tech savy?

as nice as it is there is more to computers and how to deal with them than just coding. so i won't take part in the pole cause it's an old antiquated form of computer knowledge

 

[TheSanityAssassin]

what about fixing/making hardware?

 

[Nova5]

I can program my VCR's clock. Now that's fucking hardcore.

Seriously, though, I know enough code to read through a page in an HTML editor, and some C++. On the hardware end, I can dismantle my laptop in under 15 minutes down to the main board.

 

[Ekonk]

Somewhere between iType and Codist, but it isn't Shortcutter, because shortcuts can take a running jump at the grand canyon.

 

[Agayek]

Seeing as I'm basically a professional programmer, I went with 6.

I've never bothered to learn how to read straight binary though.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

ummm how i being a coder making you tech savy?

as nice as it is there is more to computers and how to deal with them than just coding. so i won't take part in the pole cause it's an old antiquated form of computer knowledge

To be fair... it basically is. The more tech savvy you are, the more likely you are to have to have programmed something. More and more, it's probably related to your job, and so on. At the point where you are merely a user, you are average. Once you start building things for the tech, you've gone to the next level. Be that mod tools for it, but once you start heading towards mod tools, you are on your way to programming. It's a natural progression.

I fall probably in to Category 6. I am professional programmer, and when this site went down recently, i sent them an email detailing security flaws in their code. There pretty much isn't a piece of tech you can buy i can't figure out, or write something for.

To be fair, there is the level above mine, which is... knowing how the tech works, usually at driver level. I have knowledge on how each component tends to work, but i wouldn't have a clue of how to write a driver. I have written basic programming languages and o/s though for uni though.

i don't code and i'm probly more tech savy than most. i make scripts every once in a while but i don't code programs. there's tons of people like me out there that don't know how to do a lot of coding but are very tech savy.

that paradigm was true 10 years ago, however today that's not overly true and hasn't been that way for a while.

 

[Robert632]

i can get around, and i do know some code, but i'd end up fucking sht up with what i know.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

It's all about understanding how things work and the process you use to solve the problem.

Seeing as I'm basically a professional programmer, I went with 6.

I've never bothered to learn how to read straight binary though.

Do chemists memorize the periodic table?

 

[IxionIndustries]

I'm a 3, but I want to be at least a 4.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Thanks for totally slapping this pages CSS in the face with your binary. In any case I'm going with about a 4-5 , closer to 4.

 

[Lukeje]

Seeing as I'm basically a professional programmer, I went with 6.

I've never bothered to learn how to read straight binary though.

Do chemists memorize the periodic table?

Yes, yes they do. Well, real Chemists anyway.

Edit: to clarify, that's not a good analogy. Memorisation of the Periodic Table seeps in gradually as you are using it all the time. The whole point of most programming languages is to hide the binary as it is irrelevant to what you're trying to do most of the time, and just obfuscates writing programs.

 

[kboman]

3,5 if html/css counts. I've actually tried with some determination to avoid programming and any deeper system knowledge for the simple reason that I don't want to become the unofficial tech support guy for everyone I meet (I've seen it happen to other people, it's not pretty).

My girlfriend still calls me a total nerd but she knows chemistry so look who's talking...!

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Between 4 and 5, isn't being able to read the code like Neo and reading the binary in the last one about the same or Neo's is better?

 

[mokes310]

4, and I've stopped there because there is no need to know more. Don't believe me...watch when a good number of US tech professionals see their jobs outsourced to India...then China...

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I can just about read code on certain programs to be able to alter them, but only programs I use all the time. So between 4 and 3 for me.

 

[Epifols]

Since when is code the way to test being technically capable?

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Sadly I'm a 3. I can work with a computer, but not as well as other people can

 

[Trivun]

I'm sort of between 3 and 4. I can read basic HTML and I generally know my way around, I'm a bit of a software whizz but not really much good with hardware. Mainly because although I want to build my own gaming rig and I want to learn more about hardware, I can't afford to, nor can I afford to replace the laptop my parents bought me last year If I break it in any way. Plus since I live in rented accomodation and I'll be moving out next June or July, a proper gaming rig wouldn't really be practical when I leave.

I intend to do a computer programming elctive next semester though so I'll be learning how to program in the easier languages, and if I'm any good then I'll carry on with self-teaching next year (especially since I'm hoping to do a year's internship at a game developer next year as a year out from university). So hopefully by this time next year I'll be between 4 and 6. Prefereably erring on the 6 side of 5.