Anyone here program on a regular basis?

[bagpuss22]

I am programming every day.. Started with a ZX81 all those years ago. Currently working with
68K Assembler and ADA on Eurofighter as well as other military aircraft. Spent 12 years programming
on Harrier. At home I love Z80 and all the older stuff!

BP

 

[AmiNeo]

awesome.

 

[DojoDan]

I worked as a PHP coder for a small company for quite a few years before going freelance. My full-time job was mainly all areas of medium sized web apps, Ajax front ends, MooTools etc/PHP/database/Linux etc. Altho started with Pascal & COBOL at college, then Java (1.3, old I know) at Uni. Altho did start dabbling with QuakeC and html when at school. Like to mess with Blitz in my spare time. Blitz is really easy to get into and get results pretty quickly, keeps my interest! I also use to collect Java books, just liked em! Altho I'll freely admit that I'm pretty much a code junky, not an architect or anything that professional :/

 

[AmiNeo]

It's all good. Many of us love coding for various reasons. I simply love the creativity and the fact that you can pretty much create anything. Code itself is almost like writing, but in a much more expressive and intellectual way. Many ways to achieve the same goal. Many puzzles to reach it. Nothing else like it.


As for collecting books, my time in uni has seen my bookshelf begin to bend in the middle. No doubt there will be another half dozen or more before this year is over.

 

[Zetr0]

An interesting thread.

I started programming at the very young age of 9 and a half on the humble ZX80/81, by the time I was 11 years old I had started writing simple Z80 ASM routines from books I found at the library.

I currently can write in about 47 different programming and scripting languages. Its kinda been a mission to learn as many as I can. I have worked with IBM's AS400 (system 32 and 36) RPGII / III and System 32's assembly language and its CL scripting system. I have worked a lot with C and C++ as well as developed data-driven databases with some *interesting* heuristics (AI) and this was on mainframe machines in the very early 90's.

Currently re-learning Z80ASM and 6502 ASM as well over the last couple of years. however my favourite language to code in is 'C' but have begun to not dis-like as much Java.... still not a fan of it compared to most programming languages its a tad restrictive, I even wrote my own compiler for Java (in C ).

By far the hardest language to code in is brainf*ck - yes its a language with a compiler - go goolge

I have wanted to get some time as Merly and I have talked about developing some AmiBay classes for beginner and advanced programming classes. However what system is the real question.

 

[Bastich]

I have wanted to get some time as Merly and I have talked about developing some AmiBay classes for beginner and advanced programming classes. However what system is the real question.

If you want to do any DirectX C/C++ libraries I am more than happy to help out

 

[AmiNeo]

I have wanted to get some time as Merly and I have talked about developing some AmiBay classes for beginner and advanced programming classes. However what system is the real question.

If you want to do any DirectX C/C++ libraries I am more than happy to help out

I like where this thread is leading. I was hoping you'd chime in at some point, Zeets. It's been a while

 

[ColourWheel64]

I have wanted to get some time as Merly and I have talked about developing some AmiBay classes for beginner and advanced programming classes. However what system is the real question.

The amiga would be suitably good. If you prefer c then i wouldnt mind converting it to hisoft devpac. Either that, or i could create the tutorial andyou convert to c. i dont mind. Especially to teach to auto switch between OCS 512kb/1mb and AGA 2mb. would be great to have the same tutorial for multiple languages.

 

[MartinW]

That sounds very welcome

I did a bit last year and found it quite hard to gather all the info to get started (in C). It was hard enough gathering enough info on tools etc., let alone when you start to dig for actual coding tutorials from magazines it's difficult to filter the stuff according to was is very out of day because it was from WB1.3 times. Going out on the internet you have the opposite problem in the mix as well where a lot of stuff is WB3.9 and even 4+ / Morphos etc. I know a lot of it is still relevant but it gets pretty confusing.

I'm just starting to have a look again now but I know I'm spreading myself too thin on my spare time projects and may have to focus on some other things first.

Oh, just to clarify, when I say "get started" I mean in Amiga, not C itself. That I know enough of to not be a noob.

I would probably not be averse to assembler but I've always felt it would probably help to know the system / hardware first. That may or may not really be the case.

 

[AmiNeo]

I have the kern-ritchie book but haven't found the time to sit down with it and have a good read yet. I would like to learn C++ some day... C too and it would be a fantastic starting point towards C++.

Do Amibay's post options have a code embedding option the likes of which sites like stack-overflow have?

 

[Amiga Forever]

By far the hardest language to code in is brainf*ck - yes its a language with a compiler - go goolge

Brainf*ck(hence the name and no wonder! ) and Cobol are horrible Programming language

I have wanted to get some time as Merly and I have talked about developing some AmiBay classes for beginner and advanced programming classes. However what system is the real question.

Excellent Idea and it should have poll vote of whichever programming language for pc or amiga or 8bit computer

 

[BloodyCactus]

well I program for a living, so every day at work but then when I come home I also program. Work on various stuff at home, my C64 adventure games interpreters, some amiga stuff (not much), linux stuff. Mostly now my time is on embedded PIC32 C stuff for my pinball machine control and SDL2 doing the other half, the SDL2 graphics for the pinball screen on a raspberry pi and stuff.

lots of programming, 99.999% is all C for me, whats left is ruby or lua.

 

[UberFreak]

I started at age 11 or 12 with a little basic on Dragon & ZX Spectrum, but very quickly moved to Assembly on the C64.
Been coding on the C64 for nearly 30 years now.

At some point I turned my hobby into a profession, currently working for one of the biggest Cellphone manufacturers, programming Camera ISP in C/C++ and some assembly, when absolutely required.

 

[Tuxon86]

Started on a TRS-80 MC10 back in the day. Then went to the Atari XL serie and Xe later on, where I learned 6502 Assembler. I then bought an A1000 where I mostly used Arexx since I was also working with Rexx on IBM mainframe during that time after college. I then saved up a bit and went to university where I learned Ada and C plus 68k Asm. After school I briefly worked as a delphi programmer before switching to hardware/tech support for the last 16 years.

I'm just getting back to programming as a hobby and doing so on my venerable A1000 of all thing!
I'm presently reading a lot and trying to find myself a copy of SAS/C (which I may have found here already!) and an Assembler or Macro Assembler plus some extra hardware for my A1000.
I may branch of to a more powerful machine in the future, like an A3000 or 4000 if I can find one cheap in my neck of the wood.

 

[AmiNeo]

AH, so many oldschool programmers! I could learn so much from you guys! I envy those who started at 11 and 12 and earlier. I'd have given anything for someone to teach me at that age. I had the honour of learning some BASIC on a C64 when I was very young but was too young to really know what benefits and rewards programming can give.

 

[rootboy]

I am programming every day.. Started with a ZX81 all those years ago. Currently working with
68K Assembler and ADA on Eurofighter as well as other military aircraft. Spent 12 years programming
on Harrier. At home I love Z80 and all the older stuff!

BP

I'm a PLC programmer by trade, mostly Rockwell stuff. Probably not too useful around these parts...

I too have a love for the old Z80 hardware! Including a couple of Fox MT-80Zs

 

[Kusaka]

I earn my living writing in Python these days.
Used to write C and C++ code, some C# too (but I kinda prefer Java).
Learned x86 assembly many moons ago from Peter Norton's book, haven't practiced it for a decade or something, sadly
I still remember the shock when I later learned that Intel 8080's and Z80's lack multiplication and division commands

 

[AmiNeo]

[...] whats left is ruby or lua.

I've been told I should get into LUA by one or two people. Could you give me an overview?

 

[BloodyCactus]

[...] whats left is ruby or lua.

I've been told I should get into LUA by one or two people. Could you give me an overview?

well, I use it for embedding into other things. I embedded it into a filemanager (classic commander style console file manager) and a CRPG (think pool of radiance style). good for scripting and extending stuff. it has a few gotcha's since everything is a table (and NOT an array), it counts from 1, not 0! people often get ****ed at lua because they use its tables like arrays, but really its hashes. very small/compact/succinct language which is nice.

 

[commodorejohn]

I've been fiddling around with Smalltalk of late (primarily GNU Smalltalk, since I like the text-oriented nature, but Smalltalk/X is also quite nice.) It's been something of a revelation; I was able to grasp the concepts of object-oriented programming when I learned about it back in college, but it always seemed like a kind of tacked-on extension in the languages I encountered it in (Java, C++, Visual Basic.) In Smalltalk it makes absolute, perfect sense, primarily because the OO philosophy extends all the way up and down the entire system, rather than being tacked-on like in most other languages.

I can't believe they tried to teach us OOP with freakin' Java instead of this.

(Also, somewhat frighteningly, LISP is beginning to make sense to me...)