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Re: What was your first progr
By: Jon Justvig to All on Sat Aug 10 2013 21:10:00
My first programming language was BASIC. I learned a little bit while my dad would bring home Computer Gazette and Ahoy! magazines from the grocery market. I would practice reading the code on paper then put it into action on my dad's computer. It was a lot of fun. Not really know what I was doing some of the time, it didn't always come out exactly as expected.
My dad showed me one of those programming examples in a computer
magazine once when I was around 11-12 years old. I thought it was
cool, but I felt that I didn't really learn much by typing in someone else's code. It can be useful to learn from other peoples' code though
- but I sometimes tend to get lost in other peoples' code since I don't know what their thought process was when they were designing the
program and writing the code.
in between programming periods. And, if you were to include comments in your code then it might make things a bit more clear if you were to work with your sources together with others.
My dad showed me one of those programming examples in a computer magazine once when I was around 11-12 years old. I thought it was cool, but I felt that I didn't really learn much by typing in someone else's code. It can be useful to learn from other peoples' code though - but I sometimes tend to get lost in other peoples' code since I don't know what their thought process was when they were designing the program and writing the code.
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Re: What was your first progr
By: Nightfox to Jon Justvig on Sun Aug 11 2013 02:29 pm
My dad showed me one of those programming examples in a computer magazine once when I was around 11-12 years old. I thought it was cool, but I felt that I didn't really learn much by typing in someone else's code. It can be useful to learn from other peoples' code though - but I sometimes tend to get lost in other peoples' code since I don't know what their thought process was when they were designing the program and writing the code.
That's acceptable coming from someone that can code themself. I've witnessed your stuff firsthand, and you're damn good at what you do.
On the other hand, my *only* experience in the coding world is to read other people's code, realize what they're doing, and modify it to do
what I want it to do. So I guess it can work both ways, and can be beneficial as well. But I'm one of those that if I open a clean slate
with the intention of coding something, I draw blanks, and go nowhere
with it. :(
That's acceptable coming from someone that can code themself. I've witnessed your stuff firsthand, and you're damn good at what you do.
On the other hand, my *only* experience in the coding world is to read other people's code, realize what they're doing, and modify it to do what I want it to do. So I guess it can work both ways, and can be beneficial as well. But I'm one of those that if I open a clean slate with the intention of coding something, I draw blanks, and go nowhere with it. :(
Thanks :) I enjoy contributing to the BBS community; I'm glad my add-ons and utilities are useful for others.
Re: What was your first progr
By: Nightfox to Access Denied on Mon Aug 12 2013 07:03 pm
Thanks :) I enjoy contributing to the BBS community; I'm glad my add-o and utilities are useful for others.
It's definitely appreciated. If I do actually start a project myself, it wil probably have something to do with a lightbar conference selector (your mess lister seems to come close, but not exactly what I envision.. and if I were start with that, it would probably be half rewritten, and I don't want to do that).
Regards,
Nick
Thanks :) I enjoy contributing to the BBS community; I'm glad my
add-ons and utilities are useful for others.
It's definitely appreciated. If I do actually start a project myself, it will probably have something to do with a lightbar conference selector (your message lister seems to come close, but not exactly what I envision.. and if I were to start with that, it would probably be half rewritten, and I don't want to do that).
It's definitely appreciated. If I do actually start a project myself,
it wil probably have something to do with a lightbar conference
selector (your mess lister seems to come close, but not exactly what I
envision.. and if I were start with that, it would probably be half
rewritten, and I don't want to do that).
I had rdos on a dec c100
I've made some lightbar message & file area choosers, too, if you'd like to check those out. They look fairly similar to my message lister though, but simplified for file/message area selection. Here's a URL: ftp://digdist.bbsindex.com/bbs/SYNC_JS/ddac_105.zip
I've made some lightbar message & file area choosers, too, if you'd like to check those out. They look fairly similar to my message
lister though, but simplified for file/message area selection. Here's a URL: ftp://digdist.bbsindex.com/bbs/SYNC_JS/ddac_105.zip
Cool. I snagged it and will definitely check it out. Though so far it looks like it keeps the default in tact, where you hit "J" from the main menu and it does the group selection first, then jumps right to the area selection.
I envision separating this like other softwares do it. You hit "J" to
choose your conference/group.. then it joins what you select and goes back to the menu. Then you have to hit "A" or something like that to select what area you want to join.
Just looking at the file contents of the zip file, I take it all the ansi codes and/or coloring of the lightbar selection screens are done in the
.js? As of right now no ansi can be loaded or anything, correct?
Ah, I made my area choosers work the same way Synchronet does it so that it can simply be a drop-in replacement. My area choosers are designed to be executed when the user presses J, and it presents the groups first, and when the user selects a group, it then lists the areas and lets the user choose an area.
By "other software", were you referring to other add-ons for Synchronet or other BBS software?
Yes, all the coloring is done in the .js. All the coloring is for fields that change, such as the message number, subject, and post date, so there's really nothing consistent that could be provided by an ANSI file.
Perhaps at some point I could have my area choosers load configuration files that specify the colors to use.. For now, though, that can be customized by editing the .js.
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It's really good. Strangely written, but enjoyable
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I know what you mean about time and space, if only we lived in outerspace wh it's not limited. <grin> I tried a little bit assembly which wasn't too tou and had a numberic keypad for that. What was interesting with that was at t end of each line it had a special number at the end of the line that would match what was written on paper to make sure I had entered the line correctl like code-checking. I thought it was fun.
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My first programming language was BASIC. I learned a little bit while
my da would bring home Computer Gazette and Ahoy! magazines from the
grocery marke I would practice reading the code on paper then put it
into action on my dad computer. It was a lot of fun. Not really know
That brings back fun memories. For me it was Family Computing magazine which had all sorts of basic listings for a bunch of the different 8 bits.
Re: What was your first progr
By: Chris to Jon Justvig on Sun Aug 11 2013 02:23 pm
My first programming language was BASIC. I learned a little bit whil
my da would bring home Computer Gazette and Ahoy! magazines from the
grocery marke Iwould practice reading the code on paper then put it
into action on my dad computer. It was a lot of fun. Not really kno
That brings back fun memories. For me it was Family Computing magazi which had all sorts of basic listings for a bunch of the different 8
For me, I got my BASIC listings from 3-2-1 Contact magazine. :)
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