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Do you Code? What's your preferred language/platform?
Oceander:
Just out of idle curiosity. I spent most of the last two days rejiggering the forum's theme to create a refreshed look. That required rewriting some significant php on several of the template documents, and, of course, the css styling.
Php I'm pretty comfortable with. Css I hate; I can see the potential, but it seems to me that it's still too tied to the outmoded concept of laying out a printed page, with everything flowing from the top left to the bottom right.
In high school (many, many moons ago), I learned FORTRAN and pascal, taught myself a little bit of COBOL to impress a girl (don't ask, 'cause I won't tell), and in the last eight years or so picked up html, php, and javascript. I can read c++, but can't afford the compiler/IDE needed to easily write it.
At this point, based on that, I probably like php the best, if for no other reason than that it's free and, since it's an interpreted language, I get almost instant gratification.
Ancient:
I like the new look. I'm a database guy, so SQL is my #1 language. I'll leave it up to you if that is "coding" or not.
roamer_1:
I'm top flight in batch scripting, Started there in DOS... Went to Basic, fairly advanced, to build the tools I needed that DOS didn't provide.
Found Pascal to be more sensible so I went there...
The natural extension into Delphi came next, but I am afraid I never did get the hang of OOP - Still an inline coder to this day, and I am most comfortable in D6
Messed with AccessVB to build my own bookkeeping for my business, WSH and VBScript as batch helpers...
Pretty good in HTML4, but I hate CSS, and haven't had to learn HTML5, though I want to - Probably my winter project to resurrect my website.
Oceander:
--- Quote from: roamer_1 on September 06, 2016, 03:59:30 am ---I'm top flight in batch scripting, Started there in DOS... Went to Basic, fairly advanced, to build the tools I needed that DOS didn't provide.
Found Pascal to be more sensible so I went there...
The natural extension into Delphi came next, but I am afraid I never did get the hang of OOP - Still an inline coder to this day, and I am most comfortable in D6
Messed with AccessVB to build my own bookkeeping for my business, WSH and VBScript as batch helpers...
Pretty good in HTML4, but I hate CSS, and haven't had to learn HTML5, though I want to - Probably my winter project to resurrect my website.
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OOP seems to be something useful that got overhyped as a panacea for everything. It has its uses, but in many cases it's not needed and simply ends up creating needlessly complicated code.
Scripting in Powershell - Windows' replacement for CMD - is a lot of fun (so I'm a bit of a geek). It basically has almost full access to all of the assemblies that regular applications have, so you can in fact write some fairly complicated programs in it. If I recall correctly, one of the developers even had a mini-webserver example in a book he published that was written entirely in Powershell.
Oceander:
--- Quote from: Ancient on September 06, 2016, 03:57:02 am ---I like the new look. I'm a database guy, so SQL is my #1 language. I'll leave it up to you if that is "coding" or not.
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SQL is, in my book, definitely a form of programming. It's not just passively pulling data out of the database in raw form; you can ask the database server to do some pretty sophisticated massaging to the data before it returns the results.
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