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Anybody program?

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited June 2009 in Chit chat
I know some BASIC from my Spectrum +2A days. I'm trying to learn some Java at the minute from the following online course, courtesy of Stanford University:

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111

Pretty damn cool of them to put their whole Introduction to Computer Science 3 module course online for free. Lectures n all! If you search online, you can even find the two texts for the course for free. :)
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited June 2009
    I do Java, VB, and a few others. Learning Object Orientatied programming in 2001 was a real eye opener.

    If you are looking for a good book then O'Reily's Head First Java is one of the best at the moment.

    The next languages I plan to get my teeth into are PhP and Flash.
    Calling all ASCII Art Architects Visit the WOS Wall of Text and contribute: https://www.yourworldoftext.com/wos
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited June 2009
    I do C++, thats what Spud is written in.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited June 2009
    Hmmm, new languages scare me as much as machine code. Maybe one day!
    My cousin is the only one in my family that knows Sinclair BASIC, Z80 assembler, C, html, java, flash and coffee...
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited June 2009
    FORTH is my language of choice ( Windows programming using SwiftFORTH).
  • bohuskbohusk
    edited June 2009
    In 2006 I learned C++ from the book "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days", I was completely disoriented whilst my english wasn't good and I had to understand complicated statements.

    Anyway I managed to programm a little game in C++ and OpenGL that time you can see here :

    http://bohusk.host.sk/raketa.zip

    The Forbidden message shows when you click on that link, you have to copy it and paste to webbrowser.

    The Host server is totally unreliable, so you have to have luck to get it. If you encounter damaged zip, the download wasn't successfull, try again.

    If you are curious, I can send you source text to your email.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited June 2009
    bohusk wrote: »
    In 2006 I learned C++ from the book "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days", I was completely disoriented whilst my english wasn't good and I had to understand complicated statements.


    Those books are always pretty bad at teaching and written poorly. I had one entitled "Teach Yourself Java in 21 days'. Well the book was so badly written than even someone who is good at another language may have difficulty learning it in 21 days.

    The real truth is teach yourself Java in 4 years because that's how long it takes to get really good at it. To become an expert takes even longer, some say it takes 10 years of practice to become an expert at anything including a perticular programming language/ paradigm.
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  • guesserguesser
    edited June 2009
    I do C (learnt it as part of my electronics course) and a bit of php

    that's about it, apart from the odd bit of speccy or bbc basic.
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited June 2009
    It's not the language that takes the time - it's quite possible to learn the language in 21 days. There's actually not that much to the language.

    The thing that takes the time is learning about the library and/or frameworks. They are generally very large and have subtleties.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited June 2009
    Winston wrote: »
    It's not the language that takes the time - it's quite possible to learn the language in 21 days. There's actually not that much to the language.

    The thing that takes the time is learning about the library and/or frameworks. They are generally very large and have subtleties.

    yes your quite right.

    In Java there is tons and tones of things one can learn. I truely beleive that it is so large that very few people will have the time to learn every thing about the language before it's eclipsed by another technology. Unless it hangs arround as one of the top languages for the next 10 years or more.

    I found getting my head arround Java's enterprise Java Beans is a real head banging experience.
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  • guesserguesser
    edited June 2009
    Winston wrote: »
    It's not the language that takes the time - it's quite possible to learn the language in 21 days. There's actually not that much to the language.

    The thing that takes the time is learning about the library and/or frameworks. They are generally very large and have subtleties.

    also if you can't get the hang of logically structuring your code you can learn any language but your programs will always be hideous
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited June 2009
    I use FoxPro, SQL Server / Express and vb .net. FoxPro is my main skillset, lots of relational database goodness!
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