I've used LOGO before. It was pretty fun actually. Not that I remember anything specific now.
In grade school, at one point, we were allowed to play with a computer that had a turtle. I remember distinctly drawing castle walls.
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I've used LOGO before. It was pretty fun actually. Not that I remember anything specific now.
In grade school, at one point, we were allowed to play with a computer that had a turtle. I remember distinctly drawing castle walls.
That is what i thought it did too. Its very old now days mind, just goes to show how many languages there are in the world, and some odd ones too! :p
I learned Logo in school. Fun thing.
And last year I used NetLogo, a system where you have hundreds or even thousands of parallel turtles. It's used for agent-based modelling.
Oh that! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by swgh
I wouldn't call that a programming language. Just some kind of scripting thing.
@school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81
Yes, an awesome 1K of memory to play with - that really forces you to pay attention :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series
IIRC, it was some kind of basic, but I can't remember the details.
@home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
Initially using BBC Basic, and then later on 6502 assembler.
Indeed. I started long ago on BASIC, and then rapidly switched to LOGO writer - I was better than the webmaster at LOGO writer. Then I went on to PASCAL --> C++ --> JAVA --> several psudo languages used for programming psychology research tools.Quote:
Originally Posted by swgh
Interestingly, I teach elementary school now and some of my students are still working in Logo Writer - it now goes under its company name Microworlds.
Oh, I did. Two years ago (I'm 15). It used the turtle, but I believe it was called MicroWorlds.Quote:
Originally Posted by swgh
My learning went something like this (starting point around 2002, ending point about now):
PHP -> Perl 5 -> C -> ??? -> Haskell, Erlang, Perl 6, others
You're probably wondering what exactly happened in the middle area. So am I.
In terms of hardware, first computer I can ever remember was my father's old MS-DOS system, way archaic but I had fun playing Midnight Rescue on it.
Second computer was a laptop my sister obtained with Windows 3.1. I fiddled with this for a while.
Then we got Windows 95.
Then we got Windows ME and stuck with it for far too long.
Now I have XP but primarily run GNU/Linux and OpenBSD.
It's a pretty long chain... and I got to be honest, Martin Gardner and Chaos and Fractals are probably half of where I am now in programming.
- Good old super-customized autoexec.bat
- QBasic, with some inspiration from my Dad (thanks dad). I still remember that 'game' I wrote, it was a text adventure about being on an island with treasure on it.
- High School! Every student was required to own a graphing calculator. Me and my mom saved some money by getting one of the HP calculators. Many were the prime number calculating programs and stuff that made beeps.
- College. For one semester took an intro class which was taught in Java.
- Summer Break. QBasic revisited. Game state searches kinda stuff. Let me just say, QBasic is a PITA. On the bright side, it was easy to make neat graphics programs.
- Summer Break #2. Downloaded DJGPP, and went through K&R (again, thanks dad).
After K&R, I think I pretty much knew how to program. It was just a matter of finding applications.
Wrote a spreadsheet in eight grade to manage an NCAA basketball pool.
Me? I was into robotics (of all things . . .) then discovered microcontrollers. Then I discovered that I perfered writing programs for the microcontrollers rather than designing the robots. So, hence came BASIC. I tried GW-BASIC (this was in 2002 . . .) then decided I liked Liberty BASIC (made by Shoptalk) better. Then, expanding on my knowledge, I tried C, then decided I liked C++ better. Well, then I got to OOP, and, well, lets say that I hated it. So I switched back to C and have been learning it since.
Currently, I use C, although I've taken courses in C++ and Java just for the sake of it. I mostly use Debian GNU/Linux but have been using an older laptop with Win98SE on it because my mom is monopolizing my usual comp.
I'd completely forgottten about the Atari ST! While I didn't use it to program, it was a great gaming rig. I still wonder how many hours were wasted on that playing Bubble Bobble and Elite instead of doing homework :DQuote:
Originally Posted by nvoigt
Its never a bad idea to have a variety of programming languges under your belt :)Quote:
Currently, I use C, although I've taken courses in C++ and Java
html->VB->C++->PHP->C->MIPS(Assembly)
I forgot most of php though.
If I have more time, I would relearn php :(