the first thing I ever wrote that has to do with programming was in applescript lol, that was around 12 years ago I remember the main reason was trying to automatize an chat-client showing a message of what I'm listening in itunes, well, now I'm 24, professionally have 3.5 - 4 years living of it, I develope in .net platform, and trying to learn some old school programming (dont like the fact of "programming" click oriented with wizards, even though I use wizards but I'd like to learn some low level programming languages as you guys who have 10 or more years in the bussiness)
Poll: How long have you been programming?
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Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#222I assume the question is referring to programming professional (i.e., for pay). I've been programming since the Basic on the Commodore 64 but I've only really been doing it professionally for the last 5 years or so.
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#223You forgot 40+ and 50+ [I qualify for the first and almost for the second].
How old were you in the age of 8" floppies then? :)
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#224I started out in 2001. Back then I was working for some company as a graphics designer -- I had been there for about 1 year (fresh out of school) -- building the layouts for their countless websites. Back then the whole internet industry was about to collapse and I could see the proverbial axe dangling over me come the end of my year contract. A coworker of mine was responsible for the programming. Mostly perl and ph…
I was a business major and just found this great site and started teaching myself programming a year ago. I started with Python...the question that always nags me is that,in what situations (in programming) would this deficiency become a problem?
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#225My very, very first contact with computers and programming was back in 1982. Our math teacher found somehow a budget to buy a handful of SHARP PC-1251 pocket computers and taught us rudiments of BASIC on overtime, unpaid hours. 30 years ago, phew, I'm just feeling old now. Thank you Mr Imbert.
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#226You got me thinking for a long time. :)
At first there was BASIC on Sinclair ZX-80 ('81), then I got ZX-81 ('82), afterwards was ZX Spectrum 48K ('83). On Spectrum I learned Z80 assembler, Hisoft Pascal in Hisoft C. Next was Commodore 64 ('84), where I learned 6502 assembler, then Atari ST ('86) and Amiga 500 ('87) with Motorola 68000 assembler. When in high school we got PC-XT and afterwards PC-AT with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. On PC-AT was my first professional development. I was in Yugoslav Army ('89), where I developed ERP system with Nantucket Clipper (remember? :). After a year, when I got out I went to University and there learned ADA, ALGOL, PROLOG. Worked for private company on HRM software ('92), developed with C++ and multi-db interface (Oracle, MSSQL, Access). Then worked on Time & Attendance SW (extending HRM) using Ruby and JScript as internal scripting language. After that in a startup team developed first Slovenian version of Activation software for Windows (year after WXP) for our local e-Dictionary publisher .... Now, I prefer working in Python, sometimes in C++ or C#.
Re: Poll: How long have you been programming?
#22712 years, started at age 13. I am 25 now. Started with QBasic transcribing games from a book I found in the library, then modifying them to do all sorts of new things. Quickly migrated to Visual Basic then back to C, Assembly then went to College and did the rest.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
yet there are a lot of concepts they need to digest before they jump into the html/js world. it already means they need to learn two languages (html and js), interaction between them , etc... I'm not even mentioning things like - open notepad, save the file, make sure you get the extension right, fire up the browser, click open (why not in address bar? oh yeah, you can, but tell a kid the file:/// business and see if…
I still maintain that - Start -> Run -> notepad - Hello, World! , Save As "hello.htm" on desktop - double-click it and watch it appear in a browser Is 1% of 1% of the effort it took to program an 8-bit machine.
Yeah, but the thing with that is, it fucking sucks.
What about 10 print "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10
Or something like that? If I wanted hello world on the screen I'd get a piece of damn paper. The beauty of quick basic was it got you into procedural code, where the computer does stuff. You can get someone going with Python relatively easily but not as easy as QBasic was on a Mac II in the school computer lab.
You can say there's been a cultural shift but every generation's been saying "kids these days", back to at least Socrates. I'd say that not having QBasic be one of 6 icons you can click is a bigger change, it's not the kids.
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#229Related: are there any 2nd or 3rd generation programmers around? My both parents are professional software engineers. (Waiting for someone to go: "I am a direct descendant of Ada Lovelace, now get off my lawn")
2nd. I started learned BASIC at 5 by watching my dad program a VIC 20 and copying what he wrote on paper. When he noticed he sat me down in front of the computer and showed me enough to get started.
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#230After graduation, started in '90 at a consulting firm with oil field apps using 4GL's: FOCUS, PowerBuilder, DataEase (anyone remember that?), then Paradox, DBIV/Clipper, then C, VB1 (client just -had- to use it), then VBII, III, Delphi, VB6.
Lived in SQL Server from when it was hard to differentiate from Sybase / OS/2. Did anyone ever have the problem that if you unplugged the monitor on an Sybase / OS/2 machine the whole box would crash?
In the mid-90's, the saving grace for us with VBIII / SQL Server was a small, self-published (at the time) book, Hitchhiker's guide to SQL Server, by Bill Vaughn. Actually went to dinner once with the guy- He flew helicopters in Vietnam on SAR missions... give him a couple of drinks and he'll tell some -very- interesting stories.
Three very cool years 2003-2005 creating games using Torque and GameStudio to host educational content (an FPS, hosting .avi's instead of shooting), then the C# .Net world on the desktop and the web. A little Python and Pearl thrown in for fun.
I'm lucky that I'm the go-to guy for weird requests. Keeps the job interesting.