Languages

[Locutus]

I'm curious about people's programming skills here.

Also, for the SLICers, were you already a programmer when you started with SLIC, or did you learn SLIC first and did that raise your interest in programming, causing you to learn other languages?

I for one have been programming since I was 10 or 11 years old. I know SLIC, HTML, C, Java, Basic, Perl, PHP, ASM, Maple and SQL well and have limited experiences with most of the other languages on that list (and I know at least a dozen other obscure little languages or other languages that didn't fit on the list ).

[Pedrunn]

As you may know i know SLIC. But i also know HTML. But since i started only to use DreamWeaver 4, probabaly most of the programming creation stuff has been forgotten. At least i can still understand and edit when i sea a source.

I can also do flash animations using Shockwave flash thanks to webdesign course but, as for programming itself, other than those ready functions that exist in the shockwave I cant do much. I dont think this can be call programming, cant it?
After all i just know how to use the flash software
if that enough for you to call it programming you mark flash for me since i didnt.

[Maquiladora]

Voted for Flash and HTML, theyre the only two im not completely lost with (and interested in), but not completely comfitable with either yet, ive been messing on and off for a few years with HTML and a year with flash, ill get there eventually...

[Dale]

Well I know SLIC, HTML, Standard + Win32 C++, Visual Basic, a little Perl and DOS batching.

I started programming on the C-64 when I was 8 (using the original BASIC language) and progressed up various languages since then.

[Immortal Wombat]

I started on QBASIC, but never really got into it, and only returned to programming with SLIC a couple of years ago.
Since then I have discovered the joys of JScript, and recently Python. I'm pretty sure as long as I had the RedFront script beside me I could cope with any of the Civ2 Macroing as well.

Oh yeah, and I write all my HTML longhand. I simply don't trust any webpage designer programs.

My experiments with Java and vB have been short and fruitless.

[Wittlich]

Alas I am "none"
But I am currently attending university studying computer information systems with a minor in programming - so hopefully in a couple of years, I should be of some help!

As of yet, I have not decided on what programming language to center on...any suggestions?

[HuangShang]

NONE: i dont know crap about this

[Gilgamensch]

Dos/Unix: Dos old of the old times and unix Ihave to use at work
C/C++: Use(d) it at work and home
Basic: C64 good old times (and Amiga)
Pascal: not on the list
Assambler: had to use it 2 years at work, was no fun at all........

some other's I know some basics about............

SLIC, I might start with it (sooner or later....)

[Turambar]

I first started to learn BASIC on my spectrum when I was a little kid then moved on to QBasic, then some HTML. Then came SLIC and I'm now learning Java at uni as well as SQL.

[The Big Mc]

so go on locutos say it.

///locutos mode ////

Right now I know you lot know these languages go forth and make me a spr reader / viewer

//locutos mode off line ///

[ahenobarb]

I figured out SLIC in the last few months. I taught myself C in the 80's, then recently re-taught myself.

I have a book on OpenGL that I hope to delve into one day, but I have to set up my C compiler with the OpenGL libraries. I've downloaded them, but not all of them are integrated. The biggest problem of course is time.

[Tamerlin]

I only know HTML and though I would like to get into programming I believe learning a programming language is a kind of monumental task...

[child of Thor]

Programming? Blurk
I dabbled in various basic's in the 80's(Z80 and 6502 - even got a few blobs to appear on my mates 8bit Dragon(another defunct british computer!). Then got as far as a few machine code routines for graphical displays on the amazing Atari 8bit(256 colours on screen if you could program the display interupt routines-thus all the machine code!). Then my brain melted and i started in designing those roleplay book thingies and many board games(fantasy/sci-fi/historic). I found i could do this with good results(well my mates thought so) and with no damage to my grey matter. Then i discovered girls,sport+beer and the rest is, as they say history
Now programming language is a dirty word And to be honest there seem to be so many, and ever changing that it's a bit daunting to know where i would start if i wanted to.
So i'm of the hook for the Spr reader thing - hurray!

[Dale]

Tamerlin:

It's not a "monumental task". Try this:

1. Use a programming language to display "Hello!" on screen.
2. Enhance the code so it does it in colours.
3. Enhance the code more so it displays each letter in random colours.
4. Enhance the code more so it displays on a coloured background.
5. Enhance the code more so it moves the word "Hello!" randomly around the screen.
6. Enhance the code more so it display a picture instead of the word "Hello!".
7. Enhance the code more so you have a picture background with your moving picture on top.
8. Enhance the code more so you have two pictures moving on top of the background.
9. Enhance the code more so the user controls one of the pictures on top of the background.

There you have it. The foundation of a game. A background, some objects (or sprites if you will), and something is done to the objects (moving around the screen). You've just written a basic "chase and catch" game.

The trick in programming is not how to program, but what to program.

[Immortal Wombat]

I'm still on step 1 with all of the aforementioned languages. Just sometimes "Hello!" involves maths and stuff...