What can you program in?

How many of us can actualy program? I can who else can? What can you program in? I program in:

Visual Basic
Little of HTML
and some ASP.

PS: I'm Now an Elite

Nick

Edited by Nick Charlton 2005-04-06 6:20 PM

i can't but i want to learn it. and write programs for our hpcs

i have good grasp of the main object oriented programming concepts, but i have never really finished and compiled a complete program other than our school projects.

i've done visual basic, java, c, c++, and now c#. i like c# and coding in the .NET platform. it's actually really easy, like VB.

i think i would've been more motivated to write c# code for my HPC if it wasn't for the poor stability of the compact framework 1.0. i'm a coding newbie, so i don't wanna complicate things further with an unstable environment.

coding is always hard to start. but once you take off...it's a joy.

hey all, the poll is somewhat skewed, since most of us can code in more than one language! ... I submitted VB and then could not put in the other languages anymore ...

Anyway, for me:

1. BASIC, VB, VB.NET, VBScript (hehe ... they are mostly the same )
2. C, C++, VC, C#
3. Javascript
4. HTML, DHTML, XML
5. ASP, ASPX (which would be VB.NET or C# for the code-inside thingie)
6. PHP
7. Web services, SOAP, etc

Delphi (7)
thats about it.
I am fiddling with evc a bit, and managed to get something to work in evb on the HPC, but thats about it.

Delphi is the easiest enviroment to learn programming in, (dont go higher then 7 though, because then it becomes a lot more complicated) but unfortunately the programming experience I got from it doesnt relate at all to other languages. VB/eVB comes close, but not really the same.

I'll just keep fiddling and see hwere I can get to.

As mentioned in another thread, I dont believe in classes.
Everything I know about computers is selftaught, including my MCSE/Cisco/Citrix certifications. Just fiddling with the stuff makes it a lot better.

A previous employer send me on an A+ course for 5 days because they needed me to have that, but I ended up giving that class, because the training was paperbased, and since I had to work with the others following that class, I found it pretty useless to have paper knowledge. I taught them true computerstuff, and that made my life at work a lot easier.

I have seen so many people who got their 'superior' degree's all from books, but when they actually have to put it to use they dont know anything.
With programming it's the same way. If you wanna learn how to program, basicaly find something small that bugs you. Then find a solution for it, and program it.

My first application was a simple reverse bitrate calculator.
I only had a 128mb memory card, and was sick of calculating the bitrates by hand all the time for movie conversions.

It looked like sh*t, but it worked.

To make it took me 2 weeks, and it has about 10 lines of code.
Now I can program the same thing almost blindfolded in about 5 minutes.

PocketDVD has been rewritten quite a few times.
some copy/paste froom older versions, but the current 1.1 version was basicaly rewritten in a process of a few hours. Cleaning up code, removing things that were done double etc. You just keep learning.

mMedia mDVD (PocketDVD 0.1) had over 30.000 lines of code, and a lot of it was double.
PocketDVD 1.0 , a lot more powerfull and more features, used about 4000 lines of code.
And version 1.1, even more features, has about 1500-2000 lines.

(actual manual programming code is probably around 500, so dont get too scared)

A good programming IDE does a lot of the coding for you, and makes life a lot easier for a programmer. You just drag a button on a form, and if you double click on that button, the IDE will put in the code for the buttonpress, and leaves a spot for you to put in what you want done if the button gets pressed.

For new programmers, Just play and fiddle. Find some example code and play with it.
First try and see if it works, then make changes, and see what happens.

C++ all the way thru college. MFC is my long lost buddy.
Can do C as well, which was used in my Quake2 modding days
Java is just C++ with extensive ~ exclusive use of classes. No real problem there either; just need to hang out and have a drink with the libraries.
Finally UnrealScript is like Java too (except for that replication madness). Learnt just enough of that for my mods in Unreal 2 XMP.

Excuse me! My First Poll, I was bound to muck it up ( ) . And I can't edit it now .Just use it as a thread . I the idea of a poll was to see what we all can or can't program in and use it as a base for our web browser

Nick

I'm not a real programmer, but i can program in:

1.Perl (made a search engine)
2.embedded Visual Basic (making commercial programs)
3. Visual Basic (random tools for myself)
4. mikroBASIC (for PIC electronics)
5. PIC C
6. 8051 C for 814 CPU (for my robots)
7. HTML (lol)
8. javascript (for webpage)
9. vbscripts (made simple games and scripts)
10.embedded Visual C++ (tweaking programs
11. some assembly (editing a little bit)

The BASIC series are basically the same, but it's for different platforms:
embedded Visual Basic for Windows CE
Visual Basic for Windows
mikroBASIC: PIC (IC chip)
vbScript for scripting on Windows and webpages (IE)


Edited by stingraze 2005-04-07 8:39 AM

ROBOTS Nice, What are they like? Could you post a picture?



I agree with you on the BASIC series, I've programmed in:

QBasic
Visual Basic
VBScript
and eMbedded VB

There are all nice and easy to use and most of the code can be copied from one to another.

Nick

Heh, nice subject.

I've been paid for programming in: C/C++, Natural/Adabas, PL/1, Java. I'm programming some Lua now at work, but nothing really serious.

Also some programming, either as part of courses or of my own free will, in (and most of these I'll have to relearn): Pascal, Fortran, Ada, BASIC (of some sorts), Forth, several assembly languages (6502, Z80, 8501, IBM mainframe, 68000, maybe some more), ColdFusion, haskell, scheme, prolog, TCL/TK and probably some other languages I don't recall offhand right now.

Edited by ET3D 2005-04-07 5:00 PM

well i hope this will not be off topic, but this is the robot I made for the summer. very simple. one infra red sensor and two touch sensors (switches)







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A lot of languages I wish I could write in all that

Nick

Thanks stingraze, so cool. I want one How long did it take to build? There's this device you can get, you plug it into a serial port (Jornada one would work) You write the software, then you can control it through your H/PC

Nick

thanks. It actually took me two summers (6months in total) to get this far lol (during my summer vacation) First summer, I made a real simple robot that can avoid objects by turning only. Next summer (last year) I made it so that the infrared sensor detects distant objects, and the touch sensors work as "feelers".

The board wasn't a kit, it was already made, but I built the frame, software, sensors, and all that myself (except for the Sharp infrared sensor)

What is the robot name you said that can plug into a serial port and control it? Is it selling ?

With all these talents, we should be able to write anything and take over the world! ... hehe