Welcome, and yes. I also did work on PDP-11s doing data acquisition and reporting etc. Did a lot of work intially in various assembly languages on mIcros and minis.
Cool. I always had an interest in programming, but never really did so well with it. I guess it's like anything though, some people pick it up easier than others. Gotta nephew that graduated a scientific school here, and that guy can spit out code faster than I could write a letter. Now if you need some very basic HTML, I'm your guy. lol
HTML is one thing, most of it comes down to logic, and knowing things about architecture, and syntax. HTML and the web is imperfect and needs some help, the foundations are bad. I learned to code in assembler and then worked in C and Fortran. Some of this is by repetition and I likely am faster than most programmers, I can type fast. And my visualization is fast since I can abstract and then code things quickly. It gets harder since I do kernel code and drivers and do things which are not monolithic, as in they need to preempt and be concurrent with other threads of execution. You need to know the paradigms and the traps. I am self taught mostly.
C is easy enough to learn and you can use GCC even on a Windows PC under Cygwin. I avoid OOP since it does not work. No secure or reliable systems will run OOP, so C++ is out. But these people think they can do this anyway. It fails.
Welcome, and yes. I also did work on PDP-11s doing data acquisition and reporting etc. Did a lot of work intially in various assembly languages on mIcros and minis.
Cool. I always had an interest in programming, but never really did so well with it. I guess it's like anything though, some people pick it up easier than others. Gotta nephew that graduated a scientific school here, and that guy can spit out code faster than I could write a letter. Now if you need some very basic HTML, I'm your guy. lol
HTML is one thing, most of it comes down to logic, and knowing things about architecture, and syntax. HTML and the web is imperfect and needs some help, the foundations are bad. I learned to code in assembler and then worked in C and Fortran. Some of this is by repetition and I likely am faster than most programmers, I can type fast. And my visualization is fast since I can abstract and then code things quickly. It gets harder since I do kernel code and drivers and do things which are not monolithic, as in they need to preempt and be concurrent with other threads of execution. You need to know the paradigms and the traps. I am self taught mostly.
I've been thinking about giving programming another shot, maybe Python. Got some free time on my hands.
C is easy enough to learn and you can use GCC even on a Windows PC under Cygwin. I avoid OOP since it does not work. No secure or reliable systems will run OOP, so C++ is out. But these people think they can do this anyway. It fails.
HTML is fun and I enjoyed doing my website, just wished it was a happier set of topics.... but....