how can i start ???
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the same way we all did. buy a vic-20, and start typing in programs from compute! magazine.
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the same way we all did. buy a vic-20, and start typing in programs from compute! magazine.
Or a commodore!! I loved that magazine till it became PC Home Comuputing! :laugh: Geez, the old days. Even worse, get yourself a copy of vb6 and several books for a buck at any used store and go to town!
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by going to school, reading books, web sites, ... Start with simple "hello world" programs, then learn from that, try to focus on simple things before, like how to structure your thoughts and how to structure your small programs to make them easy to understand and make them easier to update and increase their complexity.
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Maximilien wrote:
Start with simple "hello world" programs
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where the "Hello World" program came from, and why it is so popular? You could just as easily say "Hello Bob" or something completly different. Why "Hello World"?
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown
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I'll let you into a secret. All programming breaks down ultimately into 3 things. Programs have: Direction - i.e. they have a start, middle and end. Iteration - they can loop around and do things again and again. Decision - all but the most trivial program will make decisions at some point, i.e. if this is true then do this else do that. Everything else is just learning how to apply this. Now, read as much as you can about programming - don't limit yourself. Download a programming language or two to learn, there are numerous freely available ones; even the more popular ones such as C# or VB.NET. Then get some tutorials and follow them through. Congratulations and welcome to the weird and wonderful world of development.
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I'll let you into a secret. All programming breaks down ultimately into 3 things. Programs have: Direction - i.e. they have a start, middle and end. Iteration - they can loop around and do things again and again. Decision - all but the most trivial program will make decisions at some point, i.e. if this is true then do this else do that. Everything else is just learning how to apply this. Now, read as much as you can about programming - don't limit yourself. Download a programming language or two to learn, there are numerous freely available ones; even the more popular ones such as C# or VB.NET. Then get some tutorials and follow them through. Congratulations and welcome to the weird and wonderful world of development.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
You forgot Google on the list!
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You forgot Google on the list!
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I also didn't put Don't Post Programming Questions In The Lounge; I'll save those flames for later on.
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Or a commodore!! I loved that magazine till it became PC Home Comuputing! :laugh: Geez, the old days. Even worse, get yourself a copy of vb6 and several books for a buck at any used store and go to town!
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the commodore vic-20 was the predecessor to the commodore 64 (which i believe is what you are referring too). all that power in a c-64, with all that memory and 9 hardware sprites, would be too much for a newbie.
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If you really love it, just have fun learning a language and writing code. It will all flow from there. If you do not really love it, why bother?
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If you really love it, just have fun learning a language and writing code. It will all flow from there. If you do not really love it, why bother?
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] All of life is just a big rambling blog post.
Josh Smith wrote:
If you do not really love it, why bother?
I do it for the chicks and the machismo. Why do you do it?
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Maximilien wrote:
Start with simple "hello world" programs
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where the "Hello World" program came from, and why it is so popular? You could just as easily say "Hello Bob" or something completly different. Why "Hello World"?
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown
Kernighan started it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world[^]
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
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the commodore vic-20 was the predecessor to the commodore 64 (which i believe is what you are referring too). all that power in a c-64, with all that memory and 9 hardware sprites, would be too much for a newbie.
Ah, but if they got the standard floppy drive, they would learn the joys of constantly opening up the drive and putting the belt back on the spinner! Or better yet, they would continuously try to use a tape drive and go mad from the experience! ;P I wonder how many people on here came from this similar back ground? Aaron
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Kernighan started it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world[^]
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"
I was hoping for something more... um... worthwhile lol... i mean that was boring lol
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown