miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Apr 17 2005, 06:15 AM
Lets start this thread and find out more about our coding roadmap! The first code I ever wrote was on a BBC Micro Computer that came with its on embedded ROM-OS and ROM-BASIC - this was when I was in my 5th grade (1990-91). It was pretty powerful for those times, offering decent 16-color graphics and a powerful sound engine behind it (using normal computer speakers) - that PCs never achieved. In about an year or so, I shifted over to PCs coz the lack of applications for the BBC Micro was getting to me (all appz for it had to be either written in Assembly or that ROM Basic). Then came GW-BASIC 2.0 on DOS 4.0. That was fun - big fun. It any of you still have the old basic interpreters (GW/QB) try out this code - this was one of my very first experiments with CGA graphics. It struck me so amazing at that time that I was able to magnify screen text and add touches of color through a few simple lines of coding. CODE CLS
SCREEN 1
PRINT "Text:";
INPUT text$
FOR x = 48 TO 48 + 10 * LEN(text$)
FOR y = 0 TO 8
IF POINT(x, y) <> 0 THEN
LINE (10 + x * 2, 50 + y * 2)-(12 + x * 2, 52 + y * 2), 2, B
LINE (12 + x * 2, 52 + y * 2)-(14 + x * 2, 54 + y * 2), 1, B
END IF
NEXT
NEXT Next came QuickBASIC, and then Pascal... finally leading to C & Assembly - in such quick succession that I lost count. Now I'm armed with Java, JScript & PHP a little bit, quite solid on the C++, C# & VB.NET Front. That would be 15 years now  God, can't imagine so much time has passed by in between.
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vizskywalker
Apr 17 2005, 06:29 AM
Similar progression for me. In 5th grade I started in Qbasic. Dabbled in assembly for libraries for qb7.1, then gave up. I switched over to c++, didn't like it and moved to working with websites. I learned HTML (which is NOT a programming language, it is a markup language) and javascript. Then my free webhoster allowed perl CGI scripts, so I gobbled that up. Feeling more confident with my ability I went back to c++ and added java. Then I got a TI83+ and started programing in BASIC for that. I wanted more control and started learning assembly for the calc and quickly switched to assembly for the pc. Then I joined astahost, got my hosting and started learning PHP and mySQL because I had access to it. Somewhere along the way I also learned VB. I hope to progress soon to GEL. GEL is a language I am writing in assembly designed primrily for making games. There are currently no high level languages that I can think of that are not based on other languages designed for games. So I decided to start work on GEL. (GEL = Game Engineering Language and is pronounced JEHL (the eh means short E)). ~Viz P.S. I am going to try out your code m^e, it looks really good. It reads like it checks a point and if it exists then it drawsa box for the point somewhere else, but shouldn't it be BF not B to fill in the box? P.P.S. Do you know any vesa coding in assembly? P.P.P.S If anyone wants to help on the GEL project, PM me.
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Apr 17 2005, 07:00 AM
Yaah - try experimenting with both BF & B - BF would draw Filled Boxes - here I'm drawing a simple non-filled rectangle for each point. You could also experiment with hatch patterns by adding in hex values after the B/BF... Like: CODE LINE (10 + x * 2, 50 + y * 2)-(12 + x * 2, 52 + y * 2), 2, BF, &HF3E
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vizskywalker
Apr 17 2005, 07:06 AM
Cool, I never knew about the hatch patterns, how does the hex value determine hatchiness? ~Viz
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Apr 17 2005, 08:12 AM
That I've long forgotten - but I used to experiment around with different values and find a hatch to my liking. Infact when I used this function regularly, I'd built up a reference table of patterns & their hex values - but don't have a copy anymore. Try putting it in a for loop - I mean fill up the screen with horizontal lines with different hex values using a for loop and you'll get an idea.
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Forge
Apr 17 2005, 09:32 AM
I have been coding since when, hm I believe I started with QBasic at an age of 7? and moved onto Visual Basic at 10. Now I am 15 years old and I am programming Visual Basic, Delphi and PHP at the same time.
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oncombeureum
Apr 17 2005, 02:40 PM
wah, in such a way, I feel almost as same as you. i woke every morning realizing my self, what's the next programming i should read or *worse* understood. ha.. your code like a sweet memory. 
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michaellam
Apr 18 2005, 01:42 AM
It's interesting how everyone started out programming by a computer... I started to learn how to program in 7th grade by a calculator. It's a pitiful age to start since I can never catch up with anyone . Well, it began with a Texas Instruments Calculator, the TI 83 Plus. Learning how to make BASIC programs on that thing was awesome. Then I moved on to computers and started learning all the basics as mentioned above, QBasic, Visual Basic, etc... Then eventually leading up to C++. I would love to learn assembly but I don't have the time anymore... Actually, if one was to consider HTML as a programming language, then one can say I started programming by 5th grade... but HTML isn't... If some of you wish you could learn your first programming earlier, when would it be? I say, I wished I could have started programming in 3rd grade (I mastered my basic math by then) so I would have the time to learn Assembly by now...
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vizskywalker
Apr 18 2005, 01:59 AM
Age three or four, that is when I was first allowed to use a computer for games. I had already mastered large number multiplication and long division and had a good grasp of how math topics worked. And at the time my sister was making a program in QBasic for school. ~Viz
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VJgamer
Apr 19 2005, 05:09 PM
I am now 17 years old and have been programming for about 5 years. I currently develop programs in QBasic, Visual Basic, and Flash Action Script. I am currently learning both Java and C++. I know QBasic and Visual Basic very very well, and am getting relly good at programming in flash.
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xboxrulz
Mar 7 2009, 03:05 AM
I'm a Java freak, if I want to do something, I'd do it in Java. I don't like C, but C++ is good. I've been programming since grade 10 (or about 14-15 yrs old). Now in college, I'm learning C++, but still accidentally add Java stuff sometimes lol. xboxrulz
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I first got interested from playing asteroids 24/7 when I was younger. I went through HTML -> Javascript and even played around in Microsoft Presentations making a knight move around through buttons and killing (making disapear) the enemy. All that was what brought me to wondering, how does it work. I've been programming for 4 years though. My first program was a walking stickman in Turing in Gr9. Turing is a beginners programming language developed by the University of Toronto for all those wondering. The problems with it are too numerous and only one company was in charge of development. The company died of two years ago, so basically the language went to the dumpster. I learn Java in school thanks to our curriculum last year. Since the class went along at a snails pace I looked at PHP ( I know it's a bamboo raft) and learnt interaction with MySql. I toyed round with the concepts of AJAX then, and now I've started learn OOP in Java alongside C++.
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joseph77
Jan 21 2008, 01:11 PM
i've been learning different programming language for 2 years now, since my current degree i took in college is BS in Information Technology. I've been learning C/C++ programming during my freshman year, Java Programming & Web Programming on the 1st semester of my sophomore year and now currenlty taking up assembly language with interfacing...
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Chesso
Jan 21 2008, 03:29 AM
Yeah I started a bit like that, just modifying some mIRC scripts, or more examining them to see which piece does what. It helps to gain a better understand of what more specific things do, especially if you can't manage to build things yourself from scratch, or know how to use certain functions and/or features etc.
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Andres Martinez Andrade
Jan 20 2008, 08:40 PM
QUOTE(Eggie @ Jan 20 2008, 08:40 AM)  i've been programming for about 1 month....i didnt even create my own scripts...i downloaded them and rebuilded,fixed,debugged and other things....never created one from scratch That is great, rebuilding scripts is a good way of learning how to program. I use to do that in high school when I make web pages, I create some things and other parts were modified scripts. Is a good way because you learn how things are programmed and then you can learn those techniques and create your own. Nowadays I program almost everything I use; I only download some complex and very good scripts (like scriptacolous.js).
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