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A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 4:35pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
My name is . And i hail from from Ondo State. I am 16 years old and i graduated from secondary school 2 years ago. I have a strong ambition to become a world class programmer, and i just realised i need to get into practice from my teens to become a pro as i gro older. But something has been my hinderance. It is "Computer". Since the very start of this year i have been struggling to buy a computer that i can use to start learning programming languages, as i plan to study computer science. But i have not been able to buy it. The reasons are on the next paragraph. I live with my mum in Ondo state. And my dad had since when i was a kid separated with my mum, as a result, struggling to cope with everyday. I don't even know where he lives. I also don't have any extended family i can relate with. All i need is a kind hearted Nairalander who can help me buy a Laptop computer that meets the standards for programming. Please help me, I beg of you all. Thanks. Edited - 2018 Got a PC shortly after. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibam: 5:30pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
Kkkk...how much u gt?? |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 5:49pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
Ajibam: Kkkk...how much u gt??i don't understand you |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by worldbest(m): 10:20pm On Aug 16, 2013 |
Hehe. See wetin that ten ten boy (Elvis) cause. I hope you get your computer soon. I know how you feel. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by elvis10ten(m): 8:09am On Aug 17, 2013 |
worldbest: Hehe. See wetin that ten ten boy (Elvis) cause. I hope you get your computer soon. I know how you feel.I haven't even gotten a laptop up till this moment. Am just fustrated here. If only i can lay my hands on a pc in about 3 years i will be in forbes list. Hmm |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibel(m): 2:00pm On Aug 18, 2013 |
U are 16 years old, u graduated from schl 2 years ago that is at 14years Guy i have doubts abeg |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 3:30pm On Aug 18, 2013 |
Ajibel: U are 16 years old, u graduated from schl 2 years ago that is at 14years Guy i have doubts abegi graduated very young. i was going to clock 15, i was born on november. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibel(m): 7:17pm On Aug 19, 2013 |
Okay. Do u have a cafe around u or can u be productive for a while to earn u some dough to buy u a lappy What about going into Uni where u may find someone u can share his/her lappy with I dont think anyone may willingly buy/give u a laptop here. U maybe termed a fake, that'd hurt and be bad for ya. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 12:14pm On Aug 20, 2013 |
Ajibel: Okay. Do u have a cafe around u or can u be productive for a while to earn u some dough to buy u a lappy What about going into Uni where u may find someone u can share his/her lappy withthere's a cafe around here, what do you mean by be productive for a while ? Is there anything you can teach me to earn money online to buy a laptop |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by adexsimply(m): 5:46pm On Aug 20, 2013 |
How much do you have? If you are really serious about it, show a little effort |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 8:06pm On Aug 20, 2013 |
adexsimply: How much do you have? If you are really serious about it, show a little efforti am making serious efforts (been saving for a very long time). i only have #14k |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by GraphicsPlus(m): 6:03am On Aug 21, 2013 |
You have 14k? Good. What did you do to get the 14k? I advice you keep doing it and keep saving. Stop asking for financial assistance online. You can always learn programming at a cyber cafe until you get a laptop. At 14 years, you are not yet matured to be on a public forum, talk less of asking for financial assistance. 1 Like |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by elvis10ten(m): 7:05am On Aug 21, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi:check my profile, open that thread i created about affordable laptop. Then you will see a netbook and a cheap fairly used pc at 18k and 28k respectively. Just a little difference from your 14k. *cheers bro you are almost there*. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by worldbest(m): 7:25am On Aug 21, 2013 |
GraphicsPlus: You have 14k? Good. What did you do to get the 14k? I advice you keep doing it and keep saving. Stop asking for financial assistance online. You can always learn programming at a cyber cafe until you get a laptop. At 14 years, you are not yet matured to be on a public forum, talk less of asking for financial assistance. You are jobless. Why can't you just ignore the post? You are looking to be popular again. If you were answering questions on SO like you create unwanted replies it would have been better. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibel(m): 8:18am On Aug 21, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi: what i mean by being productive is to do something with a skill u have in mind to fetch u some dough. It might be anything buh not sth illegal. If u have a cafe around, u can Try to be friends with the owner and if u have some basic computer skills, use them and freelance or apply to work for a little fee either helping people type on MsWord their docs or getting involved in printing/photocopying. Infact look around u. There should be sth u can tap into. There ought to be someone u can talk to. You can even go to ur alma mater. Bro, there are things u can find urself doin' far better than coming here to ask for help. I wont support and encourage it. Why? If i help u, tomorrow someone and many more would come on NL with the same story that they need a laptop. This would start an ugly trend here. Just sit and make a list of what u can do then post it here. Instead ask/plead on how u can do sth to be productive with ur skills rather than pleading for a laptop. C'mon!!! |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibel(m): 8:21am On Aug 21, 2013 |
Mtn is an id1ot |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Ajibel(m): 8:28am On Aug 21, 2013 |
Graphicplus i joined NL @14 |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 10:25am On Aug 21, 2013 |
Ajibel:Do u know that i'm a well cultured person? even, bofore i could create a thread like this, God knows i've tried my best. If only you know this town i live in, i wished i live in a better town. There was a day i walked a very very long distance to a pure water industry with a stomach, on getting there they told me no vacancy, i have to trek back in the evening. I wrote application letter to a school, they told me there was no space and i was redirected to a far place, "almost another town". On getting there i saw the man i was directed to, there were like five to six students in his school, he told me he started the school for two years, in summary, he cant even pay me. he just wanted to use and dump me. The only thing a young person can do in this town to get paid N500 per day in this town is labouring or bricklaying job which i cant do. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 10:38am On Aug 21, 2013 |
GraphicsPlus: You have 14k? Good. What did you do to get the 14k? I advice you keep doing it and keep saving. Stop asking for financial assistance online. You can always learn programming at a cyber cafe until you get a laptop. At 14 years, you are not yet matured to be on a public forum, talk less of asking for financial assistance.will be 17 in three months time. Do u even think that i have the money to go to a cafe? i have gone to the best cafe in this town, i just wasted my money because their cafe is so slow that you cannot even open nairaland. If i keep going all my money would disappear in a flash, cafe is expensive. Besides that don't tell me to hook up with a friend that have a pc, because it's impossible, friends here don't have pcs. Grown ups that have cannot subscibe and cannot give you their pc either no matter how close you are to them. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Djtm(m): 2:38pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi:Did you write Jamb? If yes, wait till you get into higher institution, you'll definitely find someone whose laptop you can use. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by jboy01(m): 6:54pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi:Which of the cafe is slow medoline, dominion or post office? you are saying the truth because I know its very hard to get a person that can release his or her laptop for u to learn even though most of them use their lappy for dj stuff and for playing games, you hardly see a person ready and willing to go into programming. 1 Like |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by GraphicsPlus(m): 10:29pm On Aug 21, 2013 |
@Ajibel, thank you for your wise counsel to the Op. Ok, maybe NL doesnt have an age limit rule for users. However, it's not always a good idea coming to a public forum full of faceless individuals to ask for financial assistance. If you have gotten 14k, my question is, how did you get it? Then keep doing that thing until u raise about 30k, which is enough to buy you a small and fairy used laptop. You must learn this lesson now that you are young that the way to success is not always an easy ride. My brother, you have to know that it's only you that can fight your way through to become what you want to be. Life does not give you what you want, it gives you what you demand. Again, you want to be a world-class programmer, but since you joined NL, you have not opened or posted anything on the webmasters and programming sections. You were busy on Phone sections. Then you quickly remember that you want to be a programmer and came here. And the very first thread you created is a thread asking for financial assistance. Why not create a thread asking the best way to learn programming without having a personal pc or laptop? Why not create a thread asking experienced programmers how they started when they had no laptop? You cannot just appear from the blues and start asking people to assist you financially. You should just relax here in the programming section and be contributing to threads naturally and with time you may get what you are looking for. So, go back and keep fighting your way through the challenges of life. You cannot tell me that you have tried all the options available to you and the only chance you have now is NL. With that 14k, you can even use 4k out of it to be going to cyber cafe and quickly learn html and css. Then approach certain individuals or companies in your area and tell them that you can design a website for them. You can walk into University of Ibadan and tell anyone you meet that you can design a basic static website for him if he wants. You can even open a thread here on NL asking people that you want to design a basic 5 pages website for them at 20k. Two or three persons maybe interested. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by CODEEATER(m): 5:37am On Aug 22, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi: My name is Georege Tosin. And i hail from Arigidi |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by CODEEATER(m): 5:38am On Aug 22, 2013 |
WHeeZyBoyi: My name is Georege Tosin. And i hail from Arigidibro,i no go lie u,i feel ur pain,cuz we r on d same boat here...but i wil tel u wat i did/am doin to ova cum dat problem...BUY A SMART PHONE IF U CNT GET A PC..my parents no rich,but we no poor eithr,bein d last born in ma family,na me smal pass,all my siblings hav pc's,xcpt me,my bro promisd to buy me a powerful system wen i get admision to skul,whch i hav..bak to d mata,ova d yrs i didnt hav a pc,i discovrd dat symbian phones n androids hav sum programin relatd apps,my area is web developmnt,n i found a symbian app dat can act as a ful fledge servr,wit php5.2 n mysql support,once installed u can do ur codin on ur phone directly,it may nt b as fun as usin a pc,but i usd dis 4 2 yrs n mastrd all basics n advancd aspects of php,n nw,i knw i m way beta dan most pple who strt learnin wit pc...androids r evn beta,wit an android phn,u can program or code php,html,js,c++,java,python,etc..d apps r available free,android has a full mobile SDK,whch u can use to write android programs or apps in native c++ or java,n evn compile it to .apk n upload to app store direct...apache+php+mysql servers r also available,script editors ful ground....so dnt let d handicap of nt ownin a pc hold u bak...use wat u hav to get wat u wnt...God spd |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by DharkPoet(m): 10:14am On Aug 23, 2013 |
+1 for Code Eater's suggestion, another alternative is to use online IDE, there are a lot of them, depending on the programming language you've decided to do.... e.g. is www.ideonline.com |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 1:07am On Jul 01, 2018 |
DharkPoet CODEEATER GraphicsPlus jboy01 Djtm Ajibel worldbest elvis10ten Ajibam It's been a really really long time. Just logged into my old email and found I had a Nairaland account under this username. I was curious to see what's inside the account, only for me to find this. I don't have time to waste on this like this so I'll be very short. I have a beef with that GraphicsPlus guy, just how stupid can he be? He didn't even open his eyes to read well that I was 16 & not 14 and I did go to the cafe and yes, I had to create a separate account to post this then. I don't even know if you're even reason at all. If I remember my life then, all the psychological problems i didn't even imagine were on me. You may try to think you're reasonable, but you're not. If only I got a PC then, just at that moment then things would have been different for good. Although, it's also good somehow that I didn't get what I needed at that moment, the delay was good, the psychological effects of the life around me was good, years wasted was good. All those things made me rigid in the end. My health is in God's hands. I did get a PC shortly after, it wasn't the best of times though, things happen. I need to call you a goat, Graphicsplus because when i think back in time, and see myself typing my state out and using the word "dysfunction" to describe me on a public place like this, it must have weighed me down for a really long time. You just talked carefree the way you liked. Even if you met a teenager in real life, I'm sure you would not help. You're just a depressed person finding errors in people because you think people have to be like you. I actually wanted to call you a piece of trash, but it's not who I am. I don't really care if you have a changed mentality now, I criticised you based on how I saw you in 2013. And those those who criticised me and those who gave helpful advices, I thank you all. I can't explain, but your advices where impossible at that time. Word is cheap, action is limited and expensive. |
Re: A Letter To Nairalanders by Nobody: 2:59pm On Jul 03, 2018 |
CODEEATER: You can destroy the quote please. |
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