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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FDisk on March 15, 2002, 10:29:52 AM
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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?
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http://www.projectvoyeur.com/subs.htm
This will kill a couple of minutes anyway.
:D
I wish I had your problem man.
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*LOL* Not a good link for work!!
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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.
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but does anyone really "know" pascal.. It's that little step between basic and C...
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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.
:(
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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
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*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.
:(
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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
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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.:)
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Where is this wonderful place that you work at Mora?
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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.
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I learned punchcards, THEN basic, fortran, pascal-cobal was junk even then.
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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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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
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EvilDingo, while procedural languages have their strong points, nowadays, OO is the way to go.
Object Orientation can be said to be about thinking in objects. It really helps to reduce the time needed on analysis ande design, and it makes yer code more robust.
Am sure HiTech will disagree with me: after all, AH is made in C, not C++.
With regards to analysis - well, humans think in terms of objects, not procedures. Take a car, for instance. You don't see a car as a collection of functions or procedures. Rather, a car can be said to be an aggregate object - consisting of other objects. 4 wheels, an engine, a body, a steering wheel etc. You then can encapsulate the data and functionality into the objects and protect that which isn't to be accessed that way. Very nifty.
In yer car, you're given stuff you can do - left and right with the steering wheel, power on/off with yer engine and so forth. Makes it much easier to analyse and encapsulate data, and to place responsibility properly.
And of course there's inheritance and polymorphism - things that are harder to come about with procedural languages.
Me, I'm an OO idiot, Started out with Pascal, but soon learned that if programs grow to any real size, OO is a much handier way for dealing with a problem.
Am probably gonna be flamed by all the old timers now :D :D.