Lucas
Well-known member
How about becoming a developer for XenForo? Ok, just kidding here.
You might be asking too much there, but who knows, maybe in the future.
How about becoming a developer for XenForo? Ok, just kidding here.
College is no help in coding whatsoever... The summer before I started college I read one of those "Teach Yourself C in 24 hours" books because my professor to be said I needed prior c experience to take his class and all I had done up to that point was various flavors of Basic. Long story short after reading that book I was ahead of the class for the next 2 years... when they were introducing simple graphics I had a pacman clone... Just find a good book and go to town, don't be afraid to think outside the box- combine 2 or more totally unrelated 'lessons' to make something great.
I hate to admit it but I don't know any language as good as I did c back in the day, but I don't 'need' to know it, I just know enough that I can find what I need in the php manual and go from there.
I found it left me more time for extra-curricular activities...
How about becoming a developer for XenForo? Ok, just kidding here.
You don't want to learn from sites like that as they teach bad habbits. I suggest starting off with a book suggesting coding standards as these things can be hard to break into when you really get coding.
Not necessarily. There are good sites and bad sites, just as there are good books and bad books. The trick is to know the difference, which can only come from experience; and from others who have been there done that.
I started with writing Assembly for the Commodore 64, and then the Amiga. I sent a few programs to Ahoy! magazine.
Tried C, Fortran, Basic, Pascal, but never liked them. Assembly gave you complete control.
In college I had 1 class that was assembly language of some Motorola chip... it seemed the most like "Basic" of any other language since each step had to be "basic" basically. I ended up using that for my senior design project and programmed an electronic parking meter with an IR interface. Oh my... I used to be smart...
I believe we used jumper wires instead of switches.Yeah me too.
You want tedious? My first programming course focused on loading programs by switches: Up = 1, down = 0. lol, talk about triple checking your work! 8 switches, one for each bit. Set the byte, and press "Load".
The first computing I ever did was learning 1+1=2. I must have been, what, 5? 6? (there was no Sesame Street back then to teach me any earlier)
for example go try to program a php script to count to 50 and output it on a page.
<?php
for($count = 1; $count <= 50; $count++)
{
echo $count;
}
?>
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