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Where did you learn coding?
What is the biggest source of what you know now?
United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1016 Posts Offline |
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"I knew then that only people who had no problem signing false statements would be able to win the contest"
 Yeah, they probably are the same people who got those "liar-loan" no-doc mortgages, too.
Prince of Insufficient Light ~ Ruler of Heck
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The Mathematical Alpha Geek Waukesha, WI United States Member #21 December 7, 2001 1630 Posts Offline |
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Heh, I had forgotten about assembly. I did pretty good at that. I just picked up a C++ in 21 book (4th ed.), so I'll see if I can learn a new trick or two in the next couple of months.  Great, hope you'll get the hang of it. Took me a little while, but it's working out well. I think with the basic understanding of programming semantics and form, you should get it too. My Self Picks are optimized to produce
the most number of wins with
the least amount of effort.
Order is a subset of Chaos.
Thank You,
Doug
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The Mathematical Alpha Geek Waukesha, WI United States Member #21 December 7, 2001 1630 Posts Offline |
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Oh, and also... if you don't have a C++ complier, you can get one at http://www.bloodshed.net/. This is referenced in another book by the same publisher in the same subject matter, Learn C in 21 days. There you can find a free C++ complier. Something simple for testing code from the book. My Self Picks are optimized to produce
the most number of wins with
the least amount of effort.
Order is a subset of Chaos.
Thank You,
Doug
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 14936 Posts Offline |
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NC United States Member #29750 January 1, 2006 184 Posts Online |
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Learned HEX code for 6800 & 6811 in college... Learned C, C++, and G++ also at college... Taught myself most of excel - work in progress... Would love to learn something like visual c# or some visual basic, just can't seem to find the time - eventually, Pogo
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 1047 Posts Online |
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I learned Visual Basic in high school, but I'm self taught in C++. I'm very glad I learned C++ though because I added so much stuff to my system that required so much speed, that eventually, when coded into a Visual Basic program, the program would stop responding. The C++ version takes hardly any time at all. Gonna win. 
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United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1016 Posts Offline |
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I haven't started in my C++, yet, but M$ just announced they will discontinue supporting VB6, so it looks like I'll have to eventually learn something new as later OSes may not have the runtimes I might need.
I don't intend for my next OS to come from Redmond, though.  Prince of Insufficient Light ~ Ruler of Heck
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Norway Member #9692 December 10, 2004 709 Posts Offline |
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I learned myself basic on an old 8-bit computer called BBC Electron in the 80s and learned Turbo Pascal on college in the early 90s.
Don't think I have done any real coding since 1997. I would like to start programming again, just need to get the inspiration. The inspiration might be if I could come up with a good prediction method for the lotteries, or I want to turn my Excel statistics sheet into software.
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NC United States Member #29750 January 1, 2006 184 Posts Online |
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I learned myself basic on an old 8-bit computer called BBC Electron in the 80s and learned Turbo Pascal on college in the early 90s.
Don't think I have done any real coding since 1997. I would like to start programming again, just need to get the inspiration. The inspiration might be if I could come up with a good prediction method for the lotteries, or I want to turn my Excel statistics sheet into software. Wow, yeah - I don't think I've done any real coding since end of 1999 or beginning of 2000... Except for the excel stuff but that's not really coding it's more like gentle manipulation of weak formulas... lol, Pogo
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Norway Member #9692 December 10, 2004 709 Posts Offline |
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Wow, yeah - I don't think I've done any real coding since end of 1999 or beginning of 2000... Except for the excel stuff but that's not really coding it's more like gentle manipulation of weak formulas... lol, Pogo I've just bought MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Perhaps I will "get the sparkle back".
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