I started programming at age 13
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I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?
I started in high school, freshman year. My first project was teaching the owner of said computer how to program his own computer, then he had the bright idea of rewriting our favorite game. So I produced a graphical version of the text game that bombed Russia. Using only a TRS-80 and quarter text-block graphics figures, I produced a complete HUD with radar sweep and other controls. :) Unfortunately we tried to sell it back to the company who made it, got our first run-in with various business issues. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?
7 or 8 with for loop controlled block art on a trash 80. I played around a bit with qbasic later. My first major project was rewriting (in turbo pascal) a text based video poker game (with major WTFs like all global variables) hacked up by a classmate into a graphical draw poker game with a really crappy artificial idiot when I was 15. The next year for my final project in HS CS2, I wrote a tetris clone using raw VGA (instead of TP line art and fill) and a custom keyboard interrupt handler. Over the summer I partially wrote a top scrolling shooter. Lack of documentation did me in there. I knew what I needed (OO with polymorphism), but not that the language provided it. My attempts to do the same with a single class and function pointers never quite worked. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Paul Watson wrote:
Luxury! Our dad beat us to death with Emily, the youngest of us!
Luxury!! your dad beat you with a soft person? Hell, my dad ripped off my arm, stripped it of flesh and then beat me with it! You don't EVEN want to know what he had the Nazis do to us! damned mutagens!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
El Corazon wrote:
my dad ripped off my arm
You had arms! Luxury! Dad long ago used up our limbs beating us to death. Emily was just a stump of rag and bone when he beat us. And only our rich neighbours had mutagens!
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Paul Watson wrote:
Luxury! Our dad beat us to death with Emily, the youngest of us!
Luxury!! your dad beat you with a soft person? Hell, my dad ripped off my arm, stripped it of flesh and then beat me with it! You don't EVEN want to know what he had the Nazis do to us! damned mutagens!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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El Corazon wrote:
Hell, my dad ripped off my arm
Literally?
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
Literally?
with his teeth! ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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I was in school and my first project was making a stop sign that light red, yellow, green. I was using PC LOGO When did you start programming? And what was your first project?
See my profile.
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer