[Doma]

Hello people!

My name is Dominika, but you may call me just Doma and I'm a girl from Hungary. In fact, I found this forum at a venture as I was browsing the internet for a supportive computing community. I have found a neat list of related communities and from all this site grabbed my attention, partly because of the nice design, partly due to the high quality content I could view as a guest and the members whose posts I have read so far seemed to be open-minded and helpful ones so I created an account here. I finished my flexible modular studies in high school and hopefully I'll become a university student very soon where I'd like to study computing and languages at a high-level. I love languages in every sense and computing too, that's why I chose a department where I can learn a big variety of studies within IT and have the chance to continue my studies at the university of an other country where I could learn and practise foreign-languages too. According to the official curriculum of my chosen university, we'll have a bunch of lessons about ethical hacking and about many other topics that this site focuses on and since the official language of this forum is English, I can expand my English knowledge too as well as gain some help and extra knowledge for my studies.

In my view, I'm generally nice, but my reactions strongly depend on my actual mood. Also, it's fairly easy to hurt me and then I keep my wraith for a long time. I hardly stand negative or „constructive” criticism but if it's true I accept it particularly as I'm always perfectionist and if I do something, I want to do it well and be excellent in it. Plus, I'm always open-minded enough to listen to good advice especially if it comes in nice packets. On the one hand, I'm said to be sympathetic, reliable and intelligent in case I'm in a good mood. On the other hand, … you don't want to get to know my bad side when I'm in a bad mood.

For instance, these things I said about myself should be enough. There are many experiences I could say in addition, but those are really not happy things so I may share them with you later when I get to know you better. I expect to be part of an open-minded, helpful and friendly community and we'll see the others. I too will try to help people here to the best of my skills. Hopefully, you will find my presence pleasant :Heart:

If you’d like to add me on Skype, PM me first on the forum, but I warn you because I have a horrible Hungarian accent. We can give it a try, though.

Best wishes,
~ Doma

Edit: Read please this part before sending me a PM! Unfortunately but understandably according to the restrictions as new user I neither can open new private conversations nor reply to your private messages. You may consider this fact when you send me a new private message or expect a reply from me. Anyway, I read your PMs and would like to / will answer when I can. Thank you for your understanding!

[BlueCat]

Hello people!

My name is Dominika, but you may call me just Doma and I'm a girl from Hungary. In fact, I found this forum at a venture as I was browsing the internet for a supportive computing community. I have found a neat list of related communities and from all this site grabbed my attention, partly because of the nice design, partly due to the high quality content I could view as a guest and the members whose posts I have read so far seemed to be open-minded and helpful ones so I created an account here. I finished my flexible modular studies in high school and hopefully I'll become a university student very soon where I'd like to study computing and languages at a high-level. I love languages in every sense and computing too, that's why I chose a department where I can learn a big variety of studies within IT and have the chance to continue my studies at the university of an other country where I could learn and practise foreign-languages too. According to the official curriculum of my chosen university, we'll have a bunch of lessons about ethical hacking and about many other topics that this site focuses on and since the official language of this forum is English, I can expand my English knowledge too as well as gain some help and extra knowledge for my studies.

In my view, I'm generally nice, but my reactions strongly depend on my actual mood. Also, it's fairly easy to hurt me and then I keep my wraith for a long time. I hardly stand negative or „constructive” criticism but if it's true I accept it particularly as I'm always perfectionist and if I do something, I want to do it well and be excellent in it. Plus, I'm always open-minded enough to listen to good advice especially if it comes in nice packets. On the one hand, I'm said to be sympathetic, reliable and intelligent in case I'm in a good mood. On the other hand, … you don't want to get to know my bad side when I'm in a bad mood.

For instance, these things I said about myself should be enough. There are many experiences I could say in addition, but those are really not happy things so I may share them with you later when I get to know you better. I expect to be part of an open-minded, helpful and friendly community and we'll see the others. I too will try to help people here to the best of my skills. Hopefully, you will find my presence pleasant :Heart:

If you’d like to add me on Skype, PM me first on the forum, but I warn you because I have a horrible Hungarian accent. We can give it a try, though.

Best wishes,
~ Doma

Welcome to the site, Read the rules. www.hackcommunity.com/rules.php

If you stick to what you're doing you will be at uni in no time mile:.

By the way, I really get the impression that you're another version of @Deque Not sure why though lol

[Deque]

Welcome to this forum. Your introduction is what I call a great introduction. If just every introduction would have a slice of the quality of yours, this section would be much more interesting.
You get a big fat fresh coffee by me.

I hardly stand negative or „constructive” criticism but if it's true I accept it particularly as I'm always perfectionist and if I do something, I want to do it well and be excellent in it.

Standing criticism (constructive or not) is something you can learn and exercise very well in forums. I am a sensitive person and haven't always been that distant to criticism, especially when I was a teenager, but after years of dealing with criticism (in literature and arts) I also moved to seeing them as very useful and an opportunity to improve my skills.

Forums have the advantage that you can take your time until you answer. So if you feel offended, don't answer immediately. Let some hours pass, maybe days and get some emotional distance to the post. Or just wait for your mood to turn into a good one again. Is the post constructive? Then reframe your view about the person posting it from an offense to an effort in helping yourself to improve. I think the hardest part about all that is to be able to wait with your response.

Is it not constructive? In that case the person might not even worth to answer to. Stand over it, even if you have a hard time to do so emotionally. Some people really want to offend and will see a victory if you let them know you are hurt. Don't let them feel like they won, demonstrate that you are not hurt. Others are trolls, these need to be ignored constantly as tempting as it is to react. Others may just have been hurt as well because of a misunderstanding and overreact. They will calm down and sometimes appologize if you react friendly despite their post.
This is the best playing field to work on your own capabilities in dealing with criticism. It will reflect in the world outside the internet as well.

That said, welcome to HC.

[Deque]

By the way, I really get the impression that you're another version of @Deque Not sure why though lol

However, it would be great if I could duplicate myself.

[chmod]

An army of @Deque's would be something to see indeed

Welcome to forum, we are mostly a friendly and helpful bunch of people here, so any criticism we give is meant to help improve one's knowledge. Which field of IT interests you most, we have a wide variety of subjects here for you to get stuck into and if you need help with anything just ask.

[Doma]

Welcome to the site, Read the rules. www.hackcommunity.com/rules.php

If you stick to what you're doing you will be at uni in no time mile:.

By the way, I really get the impression that you're another version of @Deque Not sure why though lol

Thank you, @BlueCat ! I received the (automatic) private message from @bluedog.tar.gz , which contained the most important information to start my HC career in the right way included the link to the rules. Thanks again for the reminder, though, I'll know what page to check if I'm uncertain about something.

Actually, I love what I'm doing so I do my best to stick to it. You know, I started programming self-effort as an extra-curricular activity way before they taught us anything about it in school and in those former times I didn't know I would go in this direction. I dug deeper and deeper because I found it interesting and enjoyed. Honestly speaking, I had serious IRL problems in those times and hardly could deal with them mainly because of my rather sensitive being so I had to focus on something that helped me overmount these problems. First, this thing was literature. I'm still writing proses and poems and I read alot. Furthermore, when I had the chance to play with an old role-playing computer game, I fell in love with gaming, especially with RPGs. By time, I became interested about how did these games work and whether I too could make one so that's how I met with programming (started with C++). It was in elementary school and I wasn't a very experienced programmer, but it felt good that I understood something that no one did in the whole school and this exploration did good for my confidence. Later, in high school, I applicated into an upper level IT student group where we learned Pascal first and I became uncertain if it truly was the way for me to follow as I hated that language and didn't see any use of it other than solving the boooring tasks that the teacher gave us. Practising that hated language took so much time from JS and C++ that I was learning self-effort that I was thinking of leaving the group. However, the worst experience was that everyone seemed like robots in that group and not only because I was the only girl there, but mainly due to the fact that they seemed to love what I hated so I started to think programming is just not for me. It was a very hard decision for me because when I built cool scripts in JS or small RPG games in C++, I felt it so much fun ... Finally, I decided to stay and it was an EXCELLENT decision. Next year, we started to learn C and despite the differences it felt rather comfortable for me (probably due to my experiences with C++) and soon the teacher praised me and said I'm one of the best students in the group, which obviously gave me even more power to continue. In C, I could realise several ideas of mine beside school projects, which was good for my artistic being. So that's how I found and stick with programming.

Haha, Although I've just arrived, @Deque seems to be an excellent member and beside our own uniqueness I'm happy if we share one or another attributes. I'm sure we'll hit it off with each other. The human brain can create interesting associations, anyway.

Welcome to this forum. Your introduction is what I call a great introduction. If just every introduction would have a slice of the quality of yours, this section would be much more interesting.
You get a big fat fresh coffee by me.

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I hardly stand negative or „constructive” criticism but if it's true I accept it particularly as I'm always perfectionist and if I do something, I want to do it well and be excellent in it.

Standing criticism (constructive or not) is something you can learn and exercise very well in forums. I am a sensitive person and haven't always been that distant to criticism, especially when I was a teenager, but after years of dealing with criticism (in literature and arts) I also moved to seeing them as very useful and an opportunity to improve my skills.

Forums have the advantage that you can take your time until you answer. So if you feel offended, don't answer immediately. Let some hours pass, maybe days and get some emotional distance to the post. Or just wait for your mood to turn into a good one again. Is the post constructive? Then reframe your view about the person posting it from an offense to an effort in helping yourself to improve. I think the hardest part about all that is to be able to wait with your response.

Is it not constructive? In that case the person might not even worth to answer to. Stand over it, even if you have a hard time to do so emotionally. Some people really want to offend and will see a victory if you let them know you are hurt. Don't let them feel like they won, demonstrate that you are not hurt. Others are trolls, these need to be ignored constantly as tempting as it is to react. Others may just have been hurt as well because of a misunderstanding and overreact. They will calm down and sometimes appologize if you react friendly despite their post.
This is the best playing field to work on your own capabilities in dealing with criticism. It will reflect in the world outside the internet as well.

That said, welcome to HC.

I agree with you, @Deque . Thank you for your advice! I wish I had realised it earlier, maybe I could have prevented some sad events in my life, but it's too late to cry about the past, it's time to learn from it and do better in the present and in the future, am I right? There can be some exceptions anyway, but now, I know what direction to go at least.

Also, that coffee is very similar to the one I have drunk lately. That was delicious and I'm sure your one is fine as well. Thanks :Smile:

You mentioned literature and arts. I am into these too so may I ask what is your relationship with these? We can discuss via PM too if you wish, and in case I can reply as a new member, since this thread is an introduction thread.

An army of @Deque's would be something to see indeed

Welcome to forum, we are mostly a friendly and helpful bunch of people here, so any criticism we give is meant to help improve one's knowledge. Which field of IT interests you most, we have a wide variety of subjects here for you to get stuck into and if you need help with anything just ask.

Thanks, @chmod ! In my experience, every community has its exceptions, but it's nice to see the core (at least) of the people here truly is helpful and open-minded. I'm glad to be part of this community C:

As I mentioned above, I'm mostly interested in programming at the moment, but in case I get accepted to the university (I'll get to know if I'm accepted TONIGHT and therefore I'm rather excited too) I'll get an insight into a big variety of IT related areas (including ethical hacking as well) so that I can decide where I should deepen my knowledge in the following years. Now, I would say beside programming and software development I find ethical hacking and artificial intelligence research really really interesting. However, since I have no valid experience with those, I cannot tell it for sure.

No matter what area I'll focus in the future, I appreciate your offer of help, @chmod and thank you again!

[Psycho_Coder]

However, it would be great if I could duplicate myself.

(-_-)




Please No its a request! One Deque is Enough imho, please let the other other Data Structures have their chance to prove themselves :epic: :troll:, like Stack, LinkedList, BST, AVLTree, TAG (Tree Adjoining Grammer).

@Doma First of all, hello and I hope you're fine. I was very pleased by seeing such a good introduction. I am usually not interested in most introductory threads, since most of them are crap (You can look into them by yourself and decide)

About criticism, well I am very very open to criticism, its something which helps you grow beyond what you might not have even imagined. I am a live example for someone who improved with constructive criticism. When I joined this place, I was very bad coder, well today I can call myself a programmer (Yes there's a difference between coder and programmer). Great thanks to a few people. I hope you stay and learn and help others and at the same time get helped by us if you face any problem.

A few direct questions :

Do you code, I read that you did some C++ and PASCAL, but do you still code ? I would love to see you in the programming section.

Are you a girl ? (If yes then it would be great to see some programming action from your side.)

About being perfectionist, earlier even I thought about being perfectionist, a women once said, "Being perfect is boring", after careful thought I concluded that she was quite very right. Let me tell you something she is fantabulous.

About Deque well guess what, atleast for me, she is no less than a celebrity. Just tremendously awesome. I am always out of words when explaining he awesomeness :Heart:

hahahaaha

Well, Welcome on board and enjoy.

[Solixious]

@Psycho_Coder : I think she mentioned that she is a girl already :Crazy:

By the way welcome to HC @Doma. I hope to see you around :Content:

[Psycho_Coder]

@Psycho_Coder : I think she mentioned that she is a girl already :Crazy:

By the way welcome to HC @Doma. I hope to see you around :Content:

I was confirming again :troll::epic:

[Doma]

@Psycho_Coder , Thank you for welcome! I like to write. When it comes to art (For instance: poetry), I prefer my native language, which is Hungarian, but for everything else English is fine. That's why I decided to put some effort into this and because I think first impression is important and I didn't want to be worsted among such HQ members. I'm pleased to see you (and other people too) appreciate my joining.

I announce I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED TO THE UNIVERSITY THAT I CHOSE AT THE FIRST PLACE, :epic:

(I would be at a party now if I wasn't so introvert)

It means two things for us:

• I'll be very very busy soon so don't worry if I don't post on every day. I'll frequently visit this site and share my thoughts when I have some time
  
• I'll stay to obtain extra knowledge, experience (I believe I'll need these during my years at the university) and test my skills by helping others
  

Yes, I am aware of the difference between programming and coding. When I started coding, I didn't know proper programming, but in high school we started with studying programming before coding so I realised the differences and now I am aware of the basics of programming and know some coding too. Although I wouldn't call myself a programmer at the moment, I hope I can do it with honour on one day.
Honestly speaking, I haven't done much coding except some small scripts in the past few months, but I'll enter into its spirit very soon because of my announcement C: However, first I'll have to get to know what language(s) we will study in the first year. No matter what language we'll study, you can fall back on me in the appropriate part(s) of the programming section.
I'm a female, but I think I have mentioned it already, haven't I? C: Also I think the source code doesn't care whether its creator is a male or a female so when we discuss coding it doesn't matter, does it?

You know, being perfectionist is not equal to be perfect. A perfectionist has mistakes as everyone else. However, while some people don't care about these, a perfectionist tries to do something to the best of her skills and therefore tries to avoid unnecessary mistakes. Of course, she won't be perfect because of this, but this attitude can help her reach her dreams.

@Solixious , Thanks! I think you'll see me around because I truly like this forum so far. Despite my low post count, I have looked around here and I didn't regret my joining.