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It sounds like you're proud of that.

Anyway, on topic... Started with QBasic when I was 12, dabbled with various other BASIC dialects, PHP and other things until I was 18, now mostly doing C++ in Visual Studio.

Anyways.. I myself started with VIC-20.. built-in basic interpreter is the best way of getting interested in programming. today it is way harder.. maybe a reason why kids only play games now, they never meet a coding-enviroment so they never get interested. :-/

Here is my story from 1986 to 1995, my true learning years.

Atari 800XL - Basic
C64 - Basic
C64 - ASM (Action Replay monitor)
C64 - ASM (Turbo Assembler)
PC - QBasic
PC - Turbo C

My C64 passion made me skip Amiga era which i regret today. From 1995 to today, i used many languages over many platforms but there was no matchable joy.

I started with HyperCard/HyperTalk on a Macintosh SE 2. Drawing lines and making beeps.

cupe: Isn't that also called HyperTurtle? I remember being forced to code some logo like crap language at school - with an ugly turtle running over the screen on horrible Mac Computers. Still gives me nightmares.

Started with Turbo Pascal (basically you can blame my neighbor for everything, he gave me those floppy discs of doom), played around with many different languages, went bat shit crazy after a while and switched to pure x86 asm.

Today: Most of the work is done in VS C/C++ and various languages for GPU programming.

Ohh and for starters: If you don't get pointers - you should.

Im not a coder and i never will be, because im just too stupid for that. I hardly understand if...then...else...while...wend structure :D But when i was in junior high school long long time ago, we were taught the programming language LOGO! :D

Btw, is there any demos made with LOGO programming language?

Saga Musix: No, I'm not proud of that at all - and the number of jobs I can't get because I don't program in C/C++ are HUGE :(

I just don't like the way C is *placed* - it's neither high level nor low level, it's not Asm, neither is it Javascript.... I just don't like it. But I've made a new start with Javascript, and I think this is the future - code downloading itself into the browser, even large games.

Btw, I didn't see that video las, cuz my net balance is really low right now, but I will (bookmarked this thread).

It's interesting how busy this thread has gotten, with lots of names that I've never seen before here - I think there are a large number of people here who don't participate in regular threads, maybe because they're too afraid, and stuff like this brings them all out! moredhei and all others like you: don't be ashamed to admit that you're too stupid to be a coder, nobody's (at least ME!) is going to shoot you down for that. Just stay here, and give the rest of us support.

possibly the first line of code I could write by myself:

10 print "I rule";:goto 10

Oswald

Thats the one!

Tried the 486 assembly book (not for dummies version :D). Maneged to get and understand to page 35 when there where a list to put A letter on screen. Do i really need 6 commands to put A letter on screen? Standard bios based letter. Then i was...oh well. :D

I was playing on a C-64 at a friends place back when i was 7-8 or so and told my parents that i wanted a computer for xmas, when xmas came closer i changed my mind to a NES since it was the hip thing at school at the time but by then my parents had already decided to buy the computer off the other family that was getting a NES instead.

Xmas came and i was majorly pissed off at my parents for not getting a NES but that stupid computer instead, but then half a year or a year later i couldn't get that damn tape head aligned correctly to play some game i wanted so i looked at the manual to see if there was something there to help me figure it out.

So i typed in the first "bouncing ball example" from the C-64 manual (although i typed in the program incorrectly since i didn't know what alt-key to use for the backspace so it was just a bunch of chars being output in sequence). It wasn't much and it was wrong but seeing something you made yourself "move" was just marvellous.

I can transfer 10e for one that explains me what this DOS command do and why:

SET DIRCMD=j ; (then hit enter)
dir

?

no it wont work on any other alphabec
why its j and its case non-sensitive.

OK i raise the pot 20€

Can someone why it only "j" and what it is purpose?

For me, it's ZX Spectrum > GW-BASIC > Turbo Pascal > Delphi > "all IDEs suck"

It's basically the same as throwing the /j parameter to a dir-command. According to the reference, "j" is "Justify" filename:

Your first engrish spoken.

Age 9. Dad brings home a ZX81. A new world unfolds. Seen the tanks in TRON. Always wanted to program those. Who needs the lightcycles if you can have a tank? ZX81 Basic, lots of it.
Age12. Didn´t want a C64 for some reason. Got a C128. C128 basic and suddenly in the C64 mode, gaming all the time.
Age14. Action Cartridge: Assembly Monitor. IRQ. SEI. NOP.
Age16. Amiga 500 4 chan sample audio. OMFG. Amiga Basic, 68k Assembly, and finally BlitzBasic <3
Age20: Stopped coding. Biggest mistake in my life.
Age35: Resumed coding (CBMPrgStudio). Best choice ever.
Age38: Java (Eclipse, Professional Course, OCA) Which is more of a mental illness than a programming language.

Dragon 32 basic. Typing programs in out of books and magazines, and not really getting it.

Then c64 basic, and writing some little program that moves an animated sprite around. Spending ages colouring in graph paper to design the sprite, spending even longer converting it to raw data, and seeing it there absolutely fucking huge, and wondering why all games didn't use that giant sprite mode. Still not really getting it.