Thread: I hate migraines

you should try C at least, rick! c'mon! you were a good codester.

try learning JavaScript (it's really simple, espescially coming from C/C++) and ASP. That should help you out a lot

I am 23 on Saturday, woo hoo.

And I had to do some stuff with time and date functions in a program, and in excel, since I had to make everything nicely link up, so whilst I was experimenting I thought "I wonder when I'll be, um...10,000 days old" so with one educated guess, which was only 5 days out, I found out the date I would be 10,000 days old on.

The assuming I live that long bit is just because it would have been kind of odd to say "I will be 10,000 days old on 28th Of February 2006" because that statement is too rigid, it will only be true if I am alive on that day (and don't invent time travel inbetween now and then or ever, since I could be alive on that day at any age then). I could get anthrax or something, you never know, no great deathwish or terminal condition (except life) that I'm aware of.

>you should try C at least, rick! c'mon! you were a good codester. <

Wish I had the time, pal. With Flash 5, I can bypass C and
Java script and use Flash 5's Action script, which looks like
an easier language. It's syntax is more to the point and easier
for me to understand. For instance to activate a mouse click
in action script, all you have to type is "on release...and
then whatever you want the mouseclick to accomplish."
When I get a good grasp on Flash, I hope to migrate to
java script, perl, and php. The problem I have with learning
to program is simply finding stuff to do. If you're not programming
constantly, developing little odds and ends to do whatever you can think of, then you tend to lose what you have learned through non-use. I don't have that problem with Flash. I can
think of different things to do with the whole Macromedia
suite of products that will keep me constantly busy, and thus
constantly up-to-date on how to use the programs. The only
problem I see there is I might run into a bandwidth problem
on my site as it becomes more and more sophisticated.

Oh, and thanks for the compliment, buddy. I never really
considered myself a good coder, so I really appreciate you're
saying that. Young guys like you and Aran really amaze me
with your ability to manipulate these languages. It's really
an art and an aptitude which not everybody has. It's funny,
I can take a sentence apart piece-by-piece and tell you what
each word does and why it does it, but a line of C++?
Fuhgeddaabowddit . Cheers!

rick barclay

Originally posted by Fordy
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Ha I'm occasionally going back the sams teach yourself flash 5 in 24 hours.
So far I've only managed to create an envelope that disapears into the distance. This was for an anonymous email servlet on my new web server (though when I quite manage to fully move is anyones guess). The problem I have is that I have no artistic skills whatsoever, while my friend can simply pick up a package like Flash or Photoshop and produce something better after a day or so. Ha....but who does he call when his PC goes off the rails
>>Sometimes I wish I hadn't given up on C++ so soon
To be honest I find myself looking away from C for my programming goals....but then, the way I see it, I still have loads of time to play with other things and come back to C with a broader experience. Having no work commitments in this field allows me to do this

Yeah, I agree. I'm no arteeste, either, but with web development
you don't have to be, as long as you have some other skill that's
relevant to what you want to do. That's what makes developing for the web easier than coding--it's done with a much broader
brush. I can't draw, but I can write, so there's a place for me. If
I can't code C++ on my own then there's no option. Java, java script,
basic, Pascal, C, PHP, Perl--they're all the same, really, as far as
aptitude goes, and that's what you have to follow--your aptitude,
because that's the only thing you're going to do that's going
to make you happy. I might force myself to learn a programming language, but I'd never be happy with it. Like you say, it may
be feasible to drift back to a web-centric programming language
at a future time, but for now, there are other more important
details that have to be taken care of. Wish everybody here nothing
but success, peace, and happiness.

rick barclay