So what're YOU doin' here, MEEka?

Actually make that Python...changed my mind ;)

Python isn't bad. It's what I used to start out. You can make some fairly interesting platform-independent programs with it. You'd be surprised what uses it. It's a fairly pleasant language, but there are definitely better ones.

Just out of curiosity, and to keep the Geek Girl thing going, are there any other girls other than aspiegirl who program? Or what's the most 'geekiest' thing you've done and/or moment?

Ok, we are in DESPERATE need of translation here, now, here goes:

Geek: Loves video games, card games with fantasy in them, movies, and anything that has to do with make believe

Nerds: Are smart and know how things run.

Dorks: know and love everything.

If you are learning Python complement it with Django.
http://www.djangoproject.com/

Screw VB... I dislike all Microsoft bloatware...

oh btw I'm a tried and true geek :-D haha still my luck with geek girls though has never been great.

You drink what looks like either an amber or dark beer, so you dont count!

I ripped out the phone wires in my house, installed cat5, a server, and 3 computers. I added VOip. I''m a little geeky

I built an Oracle 11g RAC cluster on RedHat 5 using VMWare and virutal shared disks in order to run ASM. Is that geeky enough?

Wow... I understood all of that. I'm afraid for myself now.

I didn't although I do understand RedHat 5, and recognize VMWare (although I don't know what to do with it.

Not nearly geeky enough.

Also not a girl, so not the subject of this thread.

I have to say I'm more of a nerd than a geek. I'm in my third year of a computer science degree and have been known to pull 17 hours stints on guild wars. I grew up in a house with 27 computers, and currently live in a geeky student house where we'd rather msn each other than come downstairs, though we have a lot of gaming tournaments.

I run a guild, I don't larp, I sold my consoles, so I don't have any now, but there are enough in the house to make up for it, and I'm more software than hardware. I'm not a hugely strong coder, but i can do prolog and c#. My skills lie more to the project management side of things, and are limited by the amount of stuff I can actually afford.

My third year project is about creating a reusable learning object for teaching finite state machine theory. Do I qualify as a girl geek?

I have geekier glasses than my brother now, does that give me extra geek points? xD (Not the glasses in my picture...I just got new ones lol)

They're new glasses and not held together with tape so no extra geek points for you

Sadly, so did I

You're my virtual dream girl

But you're PC and I'm Mac... our love can never be

Hehehe, I did.

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Geeks and Nerds: both have same characteristics. But the biggest difference is that Geeks will get something new and figure it out by using it. The Nerds will read the manual first.

Dorks: Tend to look like geeks and nerds, tend to have same interests as geeks and nerds, but actually don't know anywhere as much as they think they know and can't really do as much as they think they can and are about two to three times MORE socially awkward than geeks and nerds.

Lol... at least you didn't go with "but you're 8088 and I'm P5 Quad core"

P5 Quad Core