I love VB

[techgnome]

Real men write bar code on napkins

Now that takes dedication.


-tg

[abhijit]

You mention it and I can still "hear" the sound when the banana did hit a house.

Does anybody have a copy of it.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Moly/gorillas-bas

[BlindSniper]

I'm 16, Started programming at the beginning of 2011, lovin every second of it.

[Spetnik]

I'm 16, Started programming at the beginning of 2011, lovin every second of it.

I'm 6 and a half. I like to program pictures in MS Paint.

[Justa Lol]

I'm 6 and a half. I like to program pictures in MS Paint.

yes, you registered on this forum before you were born

[Spetnik]

yes, you registered on this forum before you were born

I am John Titor

[BackWoodsCoder]

Started in 88-89 with qbasic writing batch files and messing with other programs. Learned PASCAL (even though it was virtually dead by the time I did) my freshman year of high school. Forgot PASCAL the next semester. Went through the obligatory GeoCities web development phase, and then got hooked on VB when 6 came out. When .Net was first introduced I took a college class in it, then didn't write another line of code for 6-7 years. Got hooked on it again while I was finishing up school and programming assignments made up the majority of my course work. Decided to make it my career and have been writing VB code for a living for the past three years.

[techgnome]

here's my progression:
Apple BASIC (82) -> LOGO/Turtle Graphics-> PC-BASIC/GW-BASIC -> Turbo Pascal (90-91) -> Assembler -> Ada/COBOL (it was more Ada than COBOL, part of the package of training in the AF) (95) -> VB3 -> VB6 (98) -> VB.NET2003 -> VB.NET 2005 -> .NET 2008 (incl C#) -> .NET 2010 ... in there along the way I also picked up SQL, HTML, XML, PHP and a myriad of other odds and ends skills.

-tg

[FunkyDexter]

I am Spartacus

First code - ZX 81, around 1986 I think.

[BackWoodsCoder]

-> LOGO/Turtle Graphics->

I forgot all about LOGO! We used to do little LOGO programs in elementary school. Just copy and paste out of the book, but it was neat to make the little turtle move around and draw stuff by typing in words and numbers

[techgnome]

and heaven help you if you get one angle off, or forget the stop command and like the Energizer bunny, it would just keep going and going and going and going and ...

-tg

[Max Peck]

Real men write code on bar napkins

There was no such thing as bar napkins when I started coding. We used papyrus sheets! ;-)

-Max

[LaVolpe]

There was no such thing as bar napkins when I started coding. We used papyrus sheets! ;-)

-Max

Yep, reminds me of my first attempt at coding for unicode text. It's still around and known as the Rosetta Stone

[honeybee]

There was no such thing as bar napkins when I started coding. We used papyrus sheets! ;-)

-Max

Lucky you had papyrus sheets. You can't imagine how hard it was to engrave the code on the stone walls of the caves, just to discover that you forgot to spell int all in smallcase. It really pissed us off when we had to ditch a cave and go search for another just for a stupid little bug like that!

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[BlindSniper]

I'm 6 and a half. I like to program pictures in MS Paint.

Where did that come from ?

[dilettante]

Probably a dig at people who claim they "program" in HTML.

[Spetnik]

Probably a dig at people who claim they "program" in HTML.

No it was a dig at people who claim they "program" in VB

[Shaggy Hiker]

No.....it was Spetnik. I don't know why anybody is surprised. From his posts the last few years, the man holds the Golden Chair of VBF.

[Max Peck]

Lucky you had papyrus sheets. You can't imagine how hard it was to engrave the code on the stone walls of the caves, just to discover that you forgot to spell int all in smallcase. It really pissed us off when we had to ditch a cave and go search for another just for a stupid little bug like that!

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Hey ... so that was you out looking for caves? Should have come over to mine, I'd have lent you some of the papyrus! It had just been invented and you were still stuck carving them into stone. Too bad!

-Max

[honeybee]

You know what, the pyramids were actually stones with code engraved upon them, assembled into the greatest application of the time.




Those sorry little 'tards of workers put the code facing inwards, defeating the whole purpose of the exercise.

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[medsont]

endless thread........

[dilettante]

No.....it was Spetnik. I don't know why anybody is surprised. From his posts the last few years, the man holds the Golden Chair of VBF.

VBF?

[honeybee]

VBF?

Which one? There are two... Although I have an inkling which one you are referring to

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[dilettante]

'Nuff said.

[Spetnik]

Those sorry little 'tards of workers put the code facing inwards, defeating the whole purpose of the exercise.

Actually those smart Jewish slaves replaced the code with a virus to rip off the Egyptian bank accounts, then reversed the stones so that nobody could see what they did (because there were no decent code obfuscators at the time).

[dilettante]

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4191

[honeybee]

Actually those smart Jewish slaves replaced the code with a virus to rip off the Egyptian bank accounts, then reversed the stones so that nobody could see what they did (because there were no decent code obfuscators at the time).

Ah! That explains the mystery!!

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[shathaway]

I started programming in High School in 1985 on the school districts mainframe in Basic - when we didn't want to do anything someone would through the mainframe into an infinite loop since it would take the school 20-30 minutes to contact them and get it shut down. The following year we had 8088 with dual floppy drives programming with gwbasic and pascal. I started VB with VB3 in 1995 or so up through VB5, just picked it up again starting with Visual Studio 2010 - definitely been some changes.

[honeybee]

Ah, the gwbasic! That was probably the first programming language I learnt, if you discount the procedures we used to write in dBase III+.

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[d_glienna]

Bought an HP-85 (with thermal printer and 5" display) to create version 1 of a program, after doing 'Business Cobol' on the Mainframe, after BASIC in HS, using TSO (300 baud), before the Apple's and the TRS80's came out.

[KiwiDexter]

u were 42 yr old at 1982?

You do realise they don't charge you here for using full words right?

[honeybee]

You do realise they don't charge you here for using full words right?

You are obviously getting old Kiwi.

A few years ago I was afraid the internet and the social media would eliminate communication between two real people.

Now I am afraid even the social media and the internet would see communication dwindle down to strange character sequences hardly more than two or three at a time.

Perhaps we are going back to the old ways of communicating with a very limited set of sounds (characters, smileys, abbreviations whatever you want).

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[FunkyDexter]

In 82 I turned my calculator upside down and spelt boobies.

[honeybee]

You think that's modern? We had our railway indicators working like that till just a few years ago.

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[Shaggy Hiker]

You think that's modern? We had our railway indicators working like that till just a few years ago.

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What are you referring to? Your railway indicators spell boobies? Do you have to turn them upsaide down? and

[honeybee]

Look at the attached image.

The top one shows typically how the numbers are arranged in devices such as the calculators and digital clocks. The bottom one shows how this arrangement was modified by our Railways to be able to display complicated characters such as N, M and the likes.

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[FunkyDexter]

So you could spell boob but not boobies. That's cool, I guess, but they're better in pairs.

[honeybee]

So you could spell boob but not boobies. That's cool, I guess, but they're better in pairs.

They could, if they wanted. Sadly none of our trains ever reach the boobies, or even boobs for that matter.

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[arunb]

VB is outdated...time to move on..

[honeybee]

Move on to what?

VB isn't outdated. It's just lesser basic now.

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