Posted on 01/13/2012 1:08:17 AM PST by Sonny M
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Just download any one of the “Sam’s Teach yourself” X “in 21 days” courses.
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There’s a bit of that...
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That notwithstanding, it boils down to logic and how adept one is breaking the process down into its components.
Back in the green-screen, green-bar paper days there was only “coffee” to be made. Now one has to code to make ALL SORTS of coffee that might possibly be made in any possible of ways - with one program - and if not properly your code “crashes”; i.e., goes WTF?
I wonder if there are enough freepers interested in programming as a hobby to make it worthwhile for me to start a blog and teach a basic course in programming micro-controllers?
I think I could manage to do it, I’d estimate total cost of tools and parts to be less than 20.00
It would be C and assembly language....both are really simple and the average freeper would have NO problem. (I hold that the average freeper is well above the average citizen in brains and ability)
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LD A,10100101B ;
OUT (01),A
START LD HL,0070H
LD C,0AH
COMP LD A,(HL)
CP B
INC HL
JP Z,MATCH
DEC C
LD A, 00H
CP C
JP NZ,COMP
JP Z, NMATCH
MATCH LD A,0F0H
OUT (01),A
HALT
NMATCH LD A, 0FH
OUT (01),A
HALT
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The media has been pushing this since the 90’s (”The information age,economy etc”, “post industrial age etc”) . Ha , there are no jobs in America.
Bought a TRS-80 Model 1 back in 1977. You turned it on and it said “Ready?” on the screen. From there, you were on your own. To justify the expense of this new toy, I HAD to learn to program. Discovering what a computer could be used for back in the day when there were NO pre-packaged programs was the best thing I ever did. It was pretty daunting because I was never any good at math and I thought one needed to be a math whiz to be a programmer. Not true.
Later, I took a course in Computer Science. I ended up teaching most of the class how to program, since, by that time, my programming skills had surpassed that of the teacher.
Ah yes. Machine Language in Hex. Once I learned this, my old Trash 80 performed at light speed.
BASIC was my first language. I learned to program it in the 70’s. Is it still being used anywhere?
Programming may be rewarding monetarily but the job situation is that one must always be studying and the working times can be a killer.
To be constantly learning, pick up Java or Ruby or something
To play around, learn Perl.
To go insane try to understand a Teradata logical data model or SAP B/W -- oh, yes, if you are an expert on ABAP you can name your price.
visual basic is for kiddie programming, terribly simple. Learn C if you want a challenge and how to really code..
Rat’s ass indeed. OOP never made any sense to me.
I mostly wrote code in C and a little assembly. All very straightforward and logical, especially to a hardware guy like me who had some software jobs dumped in his lap.
I tried OOP, my brain locked up.
I am currently learning vbScript because it is useful for the testing tools I use and can be very useful for Windows administration or moving to VBA for Office.
If I had a choice of what to learn right now I would have a serious look at learning RUBY and RUBY on RAILS. It is a newer scripting language that looks to be gathering a following and may take off.
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