What is the hardest in computer concept for you to grasp?

Just wondering what you guys have a hard time wrapping your minds around in the computer world?

With me, it's definitely networking and god knows I've asked a billion times about it so I could try to understand it. Like I can understand servers and all that but IPs, static IPs, routers, etc. it simply boggles my mind. And now with wireless networking!... Ack! WEP, WAP, they WALLOP my brain! :^P

My mind can't grasp coding and the interface between hardware and software. How does that little chip take what I type and make it into something worthwhile? How did the first person program the first microchip?

That is the the realm that I don't try and think too hard in...

I'm lost when it comes to any sort of programming/development. :bomb:

I can't understand why some people can't just "unplug" sometimes :black:

There is a whole world outside. Some people need to go out and get some fresh air once in a while

Yeah there is... one thing I can't grasp is Networking too, not because it's complex technology, but because no OS seems to have an easy way to manage, edit, store, delete or soemhow do anything to workgroups in my house. And somehow it never works between my PCs and Macs.

For me its programing. I tried and it just was lost.

its programing for me too. I know some programing, but for the web, never was really able to figure out coding an app or anything like that.

The CPU, as much as I have read about it, studied it, read more about it I still can't understand how it does what it does with all them "gates" and what not.

It's got to be programming for me as well

I can code - but I'm better at manipulating existing code or adding to it than producing something from scratch - whether that be web or app I get too hung up on the low level stuff - basically I try to reinvent the wheel every time!

And getting a program to pass variables and using arrays and... yuk!

I'd say programming and complex networking..

I get the basics of networking, I know how to set one up and make it work. I took CCNA as one of my courses in college, but it was VERY in-depth and complicated..

Programming I've tried to do, web and apps, but it goes no where..

Also, complicated programs such as 3Ds Max 9 and Maya 8. It took me a bit to get used to CS2 with the help of some books, but teaching myself 3DsMax9 and Maya seem a million times harder to learn.

I went to a 12-month course in 3D animation 11 years ago. I learned Softimage and Maya's ancestor, PowerAnimator, and we worked on Silicon Graphics workstations running on Irix, SGI's Unix version back then.

With all the advancements and changes in technologies in 3D software, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to find my way around these anymore, let alone try to learn them all over again all by my lonesome.

MacHeadCase said:

I went to a 12-month course in 3D animation 11 years ago. I learned Softimage and Maya's ancestor, PowerAnimator, and we worked on Silicon Graphics workstations running on Irix, SGI's Unix version back then.

With all the advancements and changes in technologies in 3D software, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to find my way around these anymore, let alone try to learn them all over again all by my lonesome.

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Yeah, it's hard.. Plain and simple.. I'm going to school for video game design/development in Sept. '07, if I can get the $15000 for the first year.. But I know the school I'm going to will teach me everything I need to know.. I have lots of creativity and ideas floating in my head that I want to turn into something of my own. They teach me everything form using 3DsMax9, to the C++/Java programming, to design, and even AI programming.

I'm just trying to prepare a portfolio to better my odds of getting into the school, but just learning the program seems like it's hard as h3ll to do on my own. Even Internet tutorials are very complicated and unclear.

Oh yeah... There was this super school near TO for the 3D course, not sure if it was Sullivan or something like that. In Canada, that was the Mecca of learning 3D.