This forum is going to kill so much of my time it isn't funny.

I mean hey, I have almost all the answers. I've been programming for 14 years now. And I have a problem where I can't help but help others out.

Must...leave...now...before...it...sucks...me...in
--WetWired

You're that old, huh?

You're that old, huh?

How old?

Old enough to have been around when an XT was fast? Yes
--WetWired

Well you said you've been programming for 14 years, so that makes you sound kinda old.

If I told you that I had been programing long before high school would that put things in perspective?

Actually I think it's more like 13 years, but it doesn't make much difference.

Yeah, I know that it makes me sound older than I am. :]
--WetWired

Yeah, I guess. What kind of programming were you doing before high school?

BASIC, TPascal, x86 assembly.

Going into a C++ course in high school, my rule was if I couldn't do it in C, do it in inline assembly. :]:]

I spent a lot of time making programs in BASIC until someone gave me TPascal and TASM
--WetWired

Sheesh, assembly before high school? That's pretty hardcore!

I didn't even start programming until my junior year in high school. It was a small school, and didn't have any programming courses, so I taught myself how to program on my TI-81!

Sheesh, assembly before high school? That's pretty hardcore!

It was a childhood dream to be able to program in straight binary.

When I learned assembly, I got real and figured out that it wasn't worth the effort to do binary when I could do assembly
--WetWired

Originally posted by WetWired It was a childhood dream to be able to program in straight binary.

What kind of sick monster are you!?

I like the high-level stuff myself; the low-level stuff is too tedious for my tastes.

Then it might freak you out to learn that I'm a professional embedded systems programmer, and that I spend at least 30% of my time writing programs in PIC assembly (the PICs are RISK parts).

That's low level
--WetWired

I started programming in 5th grade (basic), then later html, java, and then SOME php

Okay Taco, now you've done it.

BASIC-2nd grade
WP Macro Scripting-6th grade
Turbo Pascal-8th grade
x86 Assembly-Summer before 9th grade
Casio calculator programming(forgotten)-9th grade
C++-10th grade
TI85 calculator programming-11th grade
TCL-12th grade
JavaScript-12th grade
PIC Assembly-in job
C-in job

So there you have it. I've been a programmer for almost as far back as I can remember.
--WetWired

Basic huh? That was SO long ago
Well, not really, it just feels like a decade ago
I still remember when I made a program that turned your screen pink, just to reboot your comp as soon as you hit one key after that

Congrats Wetwired. You just bought yourself a mod spot.

MWAHAHAHAHA I am so very evil.

Hey, I hope to be fluent in html. php, and possibly something else before High School (yeah right)

Originally posted by tacoX I started programming in 5th grade (basic), then later html, java, and then SOME php

C'mon you don't know html - you asked me just last night how to align something

Dunno about java.

lol yeah and SOMEONE imed me of how to remove a border from an image... lol which was quite easy =p

I figured it out before you helped!

lol, i told u how to fix it and you said "Stop confusing me" THEN 2 mins later u did EXACTLY what i said to both images >=o

I know html, and I didn't take any courses
Actually, PHP is more fun