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Richard Deeming wrote:
I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers. And single-letter variables. And no functions.
Child.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Child.
I'll take that as a compliment! :-D
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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You had one at home??
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
Sadly no, but I spent a lot of time at a friends whos father owned one. Still have the printouts from a couple of games. My parents never saw the point in computers, so my first own computer was bought a bit later for my own hard earned money at my summer job. It was a used 6MHz IBM AT with an EGA monitor, 512kB RAM and a 20 MB double height harddrive. That harddrive outperformed most other drives for many years. It also outnoised them. ;P
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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This made me think of "Wanted[^]". That was a weird movie, but I enjoyed it.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I confess, despite my conversion to C# I first learnt to code in VB and there's nothing you can do about it!
The only appropriate venue in which to air this sentiment would be VBDevsAnonymous.org. :) /ravi
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VB?! You young whipper-snappers, with your "visual" this and your "inter" that! I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers. And single-letter variables. And no functions.
10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10That's real programming, that is! ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
AMEN!!! I learned on GW-Basic back in 1985. Now THAT was coding.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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On our quiet nightshifts as a tech, I first really started messing about with VB3, then onto VB4. I wrote a well testing application for the shift, as a standard approach for all the techs to use to minimise human error factors when calculating the test data traditionally done by calculators. and then poorly controlled spreadsheets. Then the other shifts adopted it. It saved about 25minutes man time per test, and usually did 1 test per day, so you can see the savings it made. And it generated a standard html output as a report that could then be attached to an email for sending to town. I got a spot bonus which was probably not far off a months wages (after tax) for my efforts. So VB has to be thanked for that!
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VB6 started off my career. My first major project, as a very green freelance contractor was VB6, because although strictly speaking I learnt to code in TurboPascal at uni, I found VB6 great for a beginner to get real world, working apps into the field.
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Sadly no, but I spent a lot of time at a friends whos father owned one. Still have the printouts from a couple of games. My parents never saw the point in computers, so my first own computer was bought a bit later for my own hard earned money at my summer job. It was a used 6MHz IBM AT with an EGA monitor, 512kB RAM and a 20 MB double height harddrive. That harddrive outperformed most other drives for many years. It also outnoised them. ;P
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
I remember they had a room full of ABC 80's at Fana Gymnas in the early eighties - I belive their primary function was to collect dust. The students had their own computers, and I'm not sure any of the teachers new how to turn them on. At the time I had a part-time job pushing Ataris, Commodore 64s, zx-spectrums, Acorns, etc. so that was one course I didn't sign on for.
Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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On our quiet nightshifts as a tech, I first really started messing about with VB3, then onto VB4. I wrote a well testing application for the shift, as a standard approach for all the techs to use to minimise human error factors when calculating the test data traditionally done by calculators. and then poorly controlled spreadsheets. Then the other shifts adopted it. It saved about 25minutes man time per test, and usually did 1 test per day, so you can see the savings it made. And it generated a standard html output as a report that could then be attached to an email for sending to town. I got a spot bonus which was probably not far off a months wages (after tax) for my efforts. So VB has to be thanked for that!
Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn
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I remember my first project, I was estimating roof tile materials, the company usually sent 20% extra material to cover estimation errors and breakages. My error rate vanished after I wrote the program (on a commodore 64) except I had to transcribe the results to paper after the calcs. The program eventually formed the spec for an app written on a PDP11 I think, I did not get a bonus, they fired me (I was a really crappy salesman).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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you may laugh but I was taught at technical college to program a jacquard loom, the lesson was 1/2 hour per week for a term the same as it was for basic programming. The difference was that we got to run the Jacquard program on a real jacquard something we were never allowed to do with our basic program
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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you may laugh but I was taught at technical college to program a jacquard loom, the lesson was 1/2 hour per week for a term the same as it was for basic programming. The difference was that we got to run the Jacquard program on a real jacquard something we were never allowed to do with our basic program
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Were you at least able to keep what you made?
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Were you at least able to keep what you made?
as if anyone would have ben seen dead in anything I had designed, it was so bad it would have easy won the turner prize today
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
