Author Topic: Is anyone else crazy like me? (Read 620 times)

FDisk · « **on:** March 15, 2002, 10:29:52 AM »

Ok, I'm a data analyst for Manulife and I work as work comes in (see gov't cushy job X2). Now all I do right now sit in that AH bbs and hit F5 (repeat until boredom is relieved)

Anyone else in my boat?

What do you do to alleviate the boredom?

Curval · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2002, 10:33:17 AM »

http://www.projectvoyeur.com/subs.htm

This will kill a couple of minutes anyway.

I wish I had your problem man.

FDisk · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2002, 10:37:11 AM »

*LOL* Not a good link for work!!

LePaul · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2002, 11:05:12 AM »

Same

I work tech support for a software firm. I also man the network admin role, and take care of all the PCs/equipment here. Since we added a T1 a few weeks, I'm getting a lot of my work from home done

Bored?

Saunter on to my BBS and join the games in progress. As mentioned, SOB is kicking everyone's butt!

Telnet: bbs.checksix.net

In between, Im messing with Flash 5 stuff and Visual Basic. I kinda gave up on Delphi 6 since you really need to know Pascal, which I do not.

FDisk · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2002, 11:08:11 AM »

but does anyone really "know" pascal.. It's that little step between basic and C...

LePaul · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2002, 11:19:47 AM »

I dont know

See, I like being able to have the guide in my hand and learn the programming language. VB is nice in that regard, as is C. Delphi seems to assume you've been around since forever and is hard to jump into as a newbie.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2002, 11:23:29 AM »

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Originally posted by FDisk
but does anyone really "know" pascal.. It's that little step between basic and C...

Its that little step between FORTRAN and C;)

Had to take a semester of PASCAL in college. It wasn't fun.

AKDejaVu

FDisk · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2002, 12:12:14 PM »

*LOL*
In Canada it was
Grade 9: Basic
Grade 10:pascal
Grade 11:C
Grade 12:C++
OAC: more C++

kill me.
I can not even look at another programming launguage.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #8 on:** March 16, 2002, 09:11:08 AM »

when i was in school pascal was the last step.
basic
fortran
pascal

while the guys in the business oriented classes where taking
cobal
rpgII

i used to be fairly good at them all, but after 15 years of welding for a living i couldn't write a line of code to save my life

mora · « **Reply #9 on:** March 16, 2002, 10:17:44 AM »

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Originally posted by FDisk
*LOL* Not a good link for work!!

That would be the most acceptable way of using internet where i work.

FDisk · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2002, 11:11:11 AM »

Where is this wonderful place that you work at Mora?

mora · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2002, 12:51:21 PM »

I work for a car dealer as a carage foreman beside studies. As most of the people I work with are males and in this branch, looking porn on duty is really not a problem.

In fact I once gave some links to my Boss.

Gadfly · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2002, 05:40:20 PM »

I learned punchcards, THEN basic, fortran, pascal-cobal was junk even then.

gavor · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2002, 06:44:58 PM »

My job is boring as hell. Ive played AH once in 3 weeks but im on the BBS everyday. I'm a programmer but theres no programming to be done here.

. I'd love to play LORD but i think i might get in trouble, might check that suspect link at the top though. For some reason i'm more concerned about getting caught playing games than I am about getting busted looking at filthy porn

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EvilDingo · « **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2002, 07:00:28 PM »

I like Pascal. I taught myself Basic and Pascal while trying to program a Rouge-like game. Once you get the fundamentals of programming down, you can pretty much pick up any language.

I wish I had jumped on C++ when I did Pascal. Pascal has a huge and wonderful built-in library for text character manipulation (the primary source of rouge-like game graphics) so I went with that instead of C.

C bothers me. Object oriented programming bothers me even more though because I can't comprehend it's usefulness.

Isn't an object in C the same as a sub program (in Basic) or a proceedure (in Pascal)?

Why make it more complicated?

My rougelike is about 50% complete and I tried to tackle the hardest aspects of the game first. I've managed to program random dungeon generation, line of sight, and monster follow AI.

Dingo