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olliehillman wrote: »

I'm not sure of anything but I need the card for work expenses or I am simply going to run out of money and then I'm screwed. I am just thinking about what I can do to get out of my rock and hard place. The company I work for isn't even sending me timesheets and have been spoonfeeding bits here and there. I'm really not sure where I stand. I'm doing all my timesheets and I am certain my pay isn't right but if I leave this job I'm going to get kicked out of my home by my mum.

Are you working for an agency or an actual employer? Timesheets sounds very much like working for an agency.

What are these 'work expenses' and why isn't the company paying you for it? Why are they coming out of your own pocket?

Do you have any savings?

Why would your mum kick you out if you left your job?

Can you not look for another job?

olliehillman

msallen wrote: »

I was also good at maths, and hence spent twenty years as a software engineer (and still keep my hand in a little even though I no longer work at the code-face). I can guarantee that there is no "coding" that requires a £2.5K laptop. It is feasible that some proprietary tools used for development for certain platforms could demand an outlay of that much (and more) on both the h/w and s/w combined, but that is not what you seem to be talking about.

What sort of thing is it that you need to be able to do on it? I'm sure we can find you something that will do the job for well under £1K.

Was exactly what I was talking about

olliehillman

Candyapple wrote: »

Are you working for an agency or an actual employer? Timesheets sounds very much like working for an agency.

What are these 'work expenses' and why isn't the company paying you for it? Why are they coming out of your own pocket?

Do you have any savings?

Why would your mum kick you out if you left your job?

Can you not look for another job?

I am working direct
nope
I suppose but I don't think I am really going to do better than where I am

Terry_Towelling

Why not train to become a maths teacher?

msallen

olliehillman wrote: »

Was exactly what I was talking about

I'm not sure, but from what you've told us I don't think you are either. You say ...

I don't think it will be that difficult for me providing I use the user friendly programmes that are out there and the guides and help that is widely available on the internet

Which implies the money isn't so much for the laptop, but for this user friendly program that's going to allow you develop software easily/with minimal knowledge of how things work "under the cover".

I've no idea what particular user friendly programs you're talking about, but either you are still going to need a fair level of understanding "at the lower level", or these programs will be so lacking in power as to be useless for creating anything of consequence.

Congratulations on the ambition, but you have to be realistic about how quickly you will be able to generate an income out of something you haven't tried yet. Surely its going to take you many months at the minimum to learn how to do "it" (whatever that is), then you've got to develop your application and either sell it as a product to a distributor/single large customer or else sell hundreds or thousands of copies of it to individual customers.

Given that you say that you ...

want to get into object orientated programming but I will keep it more basic at first

... I would recommend going for a cheaper laptop for now and spending some time learning the skills you are going to need. Knowledge of O-O concepts and the more common O-O design patterns is a minimum that you are going to need to be able to create anything much more than a "Hello Word" application.

It will obviously mean putting up with your existing employer a bit longer - or finding another one - that would sound to be preferable anyway!

AndyPix

This is lunacy


You do not need anything like that kind of laptop for 'coding'.
You need something that can run notepad++ and that's it.


If you intend on creating something that is graphically intensive then obviously you will want a laptop that can run the program that you are creating but there is no need whatsoever for that kind of expenditure.


I am currently almost at the end of creating a first person shooter, in C++, running at 1080p, with realtime shadows, enemy ai, etc etc etc achieving 60fps and I am using a business refurb dell latitude that's worth about £400


I think you need a reality check


Or at the very least a LOT more reaearch