Well, Ash you seem like a computer expert.


I do prefer Windows.

I've been using a mac for a while, the main reason I didn't feel like switching was because it's just not worth the money. A mac can run all the things I really need it for, although I think I would like a PC better, a mac is just fine right now.

rondogw wrote:Well, Ash you seem like a computer expert.

Prolly 'cause I am

Been programming in machine language on mainframes since I was six. Wrote my first assembler programs not long after. Went from there to fortran and then the world.

Built all of my desktops and most of my laptops.

I love machines, both hardware and software. And yes, I get soppy about them. I have some 15+ yo machines that are still running as DOS game machines or interfaces to other old hardware.

Wow, six eh? Interesting... Quite a feat building your own laptops and desktops.

I plan on being a programmer someday.

rondogw wrote:Wow, six eh? Interesting... Quite a feat building your own laptops and desktops.

I plan on being a programmer someday.

I love logic and I love the magic that is programming. You are building things that exist in the real world out of nothing but your thought and electrons.

How cool is that?

I've been programming more than 45 years, and it never gets old for me.

That's pretty cool.

Wow.. How many programming languages do you know?

I can count/do basic geometric equations in binary, hexidecimal, decimal, and octal, but those are easy, and irrelevant anyways. As far as I know, programing languages are more code than math.

Indeed, but being good at math is pretty useful for that kind of thing.

rondogw wrote:Indeed, but being good at math is pretty useful for that kind of thing.

I would like to be a programmer in the near future, I just have fun doing logic and that type of stuff. Whenever I play minecraft I always end up making some sort of gigantic redstone thing just to complete a small task. :P

I see. XD I plan on being a programmer too as stated previously.

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Ok man, thats enough.

rondogw wrote:That's pretty cool.

Wow.. How many programming languages do you know?

After awhile, the language becomes more or less just syntax, and you can always get a QRC for that. What's important is the overarching design and logic structure the language was made to support.

I class them in five buckets ::

Machine languages (pure procedural)
Assemblers (ditto)
Structured programming languages (C, ADA, APL, COBOL SNOBOL, Fortran, Basic,and a cast of thousands) and scripting languages, other than Python, Ruby, etc. I also include the macro laguages like CICS here. (complex procedural)
C++, Java, C#, Smalltalk, Lisp and scripting languages like Python, and Ruby (Object oriented, nonprocedural languages
Haskell, IPL, and other functional languages (next wave, get on Haskell and the whole paradigm while it's hot)

I've programmed in all of the above and a whole lot of unnamed suspects.

See, if you know the structure the language supports and can think in it to do your design, the only relevance is that the language fit the structure.

In the beginning, it feels like there are a lot to learn, but in the end, they are all the same building blocks -- reference, addressing, arithmetic functions, type casting and conversion, loops and control structures and I/O support.

Some are really different.

I'd recommend Java, Ruby or Python, and Haskell as beginning languages now.

I started making a video game in some free java program, but I stopped making it because I didn't want to pay for an advanced modeling program, and my "dragon" was basically a few ovals and cylinders.

Sayeth_God_King wrote:I started making a video game in some free java program, but I stopped making it because I didn't want to pay for an advanced modeling program, and my "dragon" was basically a few ovals and cylinders.

I could come to the Halloween party disguised as a collection of unpainted polygons!

Perfect for Spore!

Dress up as the almighty gray blob!