How many programmers do we have?

Flounder · #1 15th October 2006, 12:51 AM

I was curious as to how many programmers we have here on the forums. And long some of you have been programming for. And what languages. I've been learning C, and C++ for the past year now. Eventually I'm looking into learning assembly.

rappermas · #2 15th October 2006, 01:55 AM

Been programming for 5 years. C/C++/Java/PHP/HTML/CSS/Python/.NET/ActionScript/Assembly. Lots of languages here.

JordanN · #3 15th October 2006, 03:03 AM

Microsoft Visual Basic 6, C++ (a semester in HS, enough to understand the structure), PHP, HTML, CSS, and BASH.

I haven't really done any Linux programming, outside of writing PHP and BASH scripts.

bigbrotherrebec · #4 15th October 2006, 03:07 AM

C/C++ and Java for me.

LinuxManMikeC · #5 15th October 2006, 04:02 AM

I've been programming since I did the Computers merit badge as a Boy Scout and that was in 1999 when I was 14. I've learend numerous programming languages (over 10). The ones that I prefer/use are: C, C++, Perl, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C# (Mono), Shell Scripting. I've been meaning to learn assembler (played with it a little), but I haven't had much need for it yet. Linux is my platform of choice, though I will work with WindowsXP and earlier. I will never touch Vista!

Yes, I know XML, HTML, CSS, etc..., but they are arguably NOT "programming" languages. However, those lines are blurred constantly, so lets not get into that argument here because I really don't care.

William Haller · #6 15th October 2006, 04:11 AM

Today? C, Perl, 65816 assembly code. I have been programming computers since the days of the key punch (and we were glad to have that)!

schwim · #7 15th October 2006, 04:18 AM

Code:

10 ? "I started with basic";
20 goto 10;

<html>
<head>
<title>My life in code</title>
</head>
<body>
Then I got into HTML.
</body>
</html>

<?php

/****************************************/
/*                                                                   */
/*  This file is completely useless, and serves      */
/*                           no purpose.                        */
/*                                                                   */
/****************************************/

include_once("peanut_butter_and_jelly);

if($IamLame == TRUE){
    echo("then I decided PHP was the thing to do.");
}else{
    die;
}

?>

thanks,
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Flounder · #8 15th October 2006, 04:18 AM

Well the main reason I want to learn assembly is eventually I'd like to work on maintaining the kernel. I figure that will teach a lot more than developing plain old software fast. I doubt it's necessary these days, short of for kernels and speeding up certain parts of your program.

LinuxManMikeC · #9 15th October 2006, 04:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flounder

Well the main reason I want to learn assembly is eventually I'd like to work on maintaining the kernel. I figure that will teach a lot more than developing plain old software fast. I doubt it's necessary these days, short of for kernels and speeding up certain parts of your program.

Most of the Linux Kernel is C with some optimizations in assembly. With most programs these days assembly is only usefull for speed tweaks. Learning assembly is a great way to understand what all these high-level languages do under the hood though. If you get into maintaining the Kernel you probably wount ever touch the assembly. Most of the assembly is probably as good as it will get (new architectures will need gurus for that architecture). Learn to program well in C and then you can start to play with the Kernel. Still good to learn assembler, but you don't need it for kernel development.

sej7278 · #10 15th October 2006, 10:42 AM

BASIC for like 20 years, 6502/ARM assembly, Perl, PHP, Python for 5-10 years.

Tinkered with ASP, VB, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, TCL, x86 assembly for about a year.

Hehe, now we should have a poll as to who thinks Javascript/HTML are programming languages!

LinuxManMikeC · #11 15th October 2006, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sej7278

Hehe, now we should have a poll as to who thinks Javascript/HTML are programming languages!

Well Javascript is a programming language, albeit a nightmare in context of web scripting. HTML/XHTML/CSS is what we should be polling about. But lets not clutter this thread with such discussion. If you don't see a new thread from me in 24 hours then start one yourself. I will put a link here.

rappermas · #12 15th October 2006, 06:34 PM

Oh, I forgot to mention that I have not only assembled on x86, but on the Motorola 68000 architecture, too. (aka, wrote a calculator game for the TI-89)

Kaziglu Bey · #13 16th October 2006, 04:01 AM

Got my first taste of programming with GW-Basic, then moved to QBasic. Quite doing constructive things in trade for drugs, alcohol and other "useful" things.

Came back to my senses years later and picked up on Visual Basic 5, then went to screwl for VB 6. Learnt HTML (before I realized they had software to create web pages--I thought you just had to know it, go figure), toyed with Javascript.

Played a bit with whatever Macromedia Flash 5 uses (javascript??)--can't think.

As of lately been wowing the folks at work with my ability to create useful and time-saving macros in MS Excel. Trite and repetitious office work is such a great motivator!

I know, it's a resume for a Windows user. My transition to Linux is coming along fairly smoothly, so my question is this:

Which language is suggested I look to next?

Thx,

craftyminion · #14 16th October 2006, 04:08 AM

I can code in assembly language, after a fashion.

cm

leadgolem · #15 16th October 2006, 04:32 AM

Does writing your first original shell script a week ago qualify you as a programmer?

Thought it was 2 pages long and it did work exactly the way I wanted.