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Crazy Programmer
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Hey guys post here how long you have been programming and what you have been programming in

I have been programming for almost 3 yrs in db and dbp


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IanG
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i've been programming dbp for around 2 1/2 or 3 years, and c++ for about 2 years


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David T
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Coming on 5 years.

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Hawkeye
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Programming in general, since I was 8. DBP, almost 3 years.


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Kevin Picone
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I've been at it since 1982. Seems like a long time now that think about it.

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Robin
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About 4 years

http://www.robinsgames.com | robin@robinsgames.com

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BatVink
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 17:40
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Quote: "I've been at it since 1982. Seems like a long time now that think about it."


Same here Tron Lightcycles on a Dragon 32 was my first game.

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Ooo ... sinse I was about 12. So 1993. Chronologically GWBasic, QBasic, TurboPascal, DBClassic, C, VB6.0, DBPro, PHP, VB.Net, Java, Visual C#. That's not cos I'm some mad language fanboy. Most of those were uni related, but good to know anyway! It's damn hard swapping from DBPro, to Java to C# all the time. Java and C# are very similar, so that's a constant syntax pain in the behind.

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Ugh I started programming in thie text based engine that used clickable pictures and stuff a while back, id say 5 or 6 years ago... Then I got "game maker" and helped do some stuff in that language to turn it into a fully functioning 3d engine. (game maker was strictly 2d at version 4.6 where i started.) Then I got a trial version of DBC and was amazed at the scorpion in the room demo. soo then for my birthday a few months later i got one of those kick @ss game dev packs with C shop geoscape DBPro texture maker and 3d canvas and darkmatter... probably some other stuff too... Ive had DBPRo for about 2 years now.

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David R
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Posted: 15th Jan 2006 18:04 Edited at: 15th Jan 2006 18:05
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General programming, about 6 years.

4 years with general DOS programming kits etc (DIV and others) and more recently, about 2 years with DBC/DBP. I started proper programming with C++ in about November, and I'm actually starting to create some decent games

Look out for my C++ game WORMHOLE, a clone of the atari millipede game....

Quote: "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
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Nice guys i didnt know we had so much experiance on the db fourms


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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "I've been at it since 1982. Seems like a long time now that think about it."


Yeah, about 81/82 on the Speccy. Then commodore 64, then Amiga, Then PC. Done Autocad, and CNC too... Laser cutting, Diamond cutting, Lathing, a bit of Robotics... (A couple of days) all computer programmed machines worth millions of pounds.

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Megaton Cat
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i been progrmin for over 28+ years in C++/visual basic 9, java, and gmaes factory

there r two types of c++ microsot visual c++ an nintendo c++

i strated prgrmain in darkbasic classin on my frst comodore 92 and im worinkin on a mmorpg liek final fantasy xi where u can ride dragon monkeys and hav duels aginst like 3943 ppl aat once

even thouh im a proffesionalz programmerz in the industrys i will still ask u for teh codez

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Tinkergirl
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Strange - the name says "Megaton Cat" but I could swear it sounds like someone else...

Anyhoo - programming on and off for approx 19 years. Mostly off though
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Seppuku Arts
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Quote: "Strange - the name says "Megaton Cat" but I could swear it sounds like someone else..."

Who? Jimmy?

I started programming in Dark Basic Classic about half way through 2004, then got DBP and I don't program much really ever since I got hooked on 3D modelling, but I've started to learn C++ and C#, but I think I should get more experience in DBP first, maybe I would understand C++ more


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It's 5 years this July.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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6 months

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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Phaelax
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Umm, I'd guess almost 10 years now. Roughly the correct order: QBasic, HTML, TurboPascal, C++, DBC, DBP, Java, oracle SQL, mysql/php/js/css. I'm most proficient with Java as it's what I use most often.


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spooky
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Been using dbc and dbpro for many years, but started programming basic and machine code on zx spectrum well over 20 years ago. Moved up to using AMOS on Amigas, then started work in 1988 programming in a weird basic-type language on DEC PDP 11's. Did that for many years until we finally converted to pc's where I mainly use Macromedia Coldfusion & Seagate Crystal Reports, together with HTML, css, javascript ,Access, sql, php, etc. Dabbled with VB6, Oracle, for a few years.

My main job is mainly to write accountancy and stock control software for many large companies, but I also write, design and upkeep many ecommerce websites.

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Undercover Steve
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Web programming since 99, started DB in 2001 from a local shop, went to site and bought dbp 1 year ago. I am really good at web development, but I never was good as db, or dbp. I know some C, learning C# 03 and 05, and soon will be trying to get back into college and get web and database certification. Seems we have lots of old people here.

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About 14 years. I started when I was 7 (1991) on our Atari 800. Programmed off and on with that and qbasic until about 96 when I decided that VB 3 was cool. Then got a hold of VB 4, 5 and 6. I had an Atari 130xe until about mid 1998 when it completely died and so I'd code stuff on it. Even though it was majorly outdated it was still loads of fun.

Since about 98 until Jan. 2004, I was pretty well hooked on VB 6. Jan. 2004, I found DB classic and then later on that year I bought DBP. Haven't had much time with it though. Throughout 2004, I did more programming than I have ever done before. I learned DBC, DBP, a bit of c++, some c#, vb.net, asp, asp.net refreshed my html and css skills, started learning php.

So, all my languages I've used in chronological order would be something like:
Atari Basic, Qbasic, VB, DBC, DBP, C++, vb.net, C#, asp, asp.net, JavaScript, php, and now I'm hooked on Delphi.


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since the early 80s, when I was very little, on many machines and languages throughout the years. I feel old when I think about it


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Sven B
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almost 100 years. (In binary ofcourse).

It's the programmer's life:
Have a problem, solve the problem, and have a new problem to solve.
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about 5 years if you count my q-basic years

of course if you count those sequential commands to that one robot in that one Dr Brain's Island game... then i guess i've been programming for like 10 years

"We make the worst games in the universe..."
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Quote: "of course if you count those sequential commands to that one robot in that one Dr Brain's Island game... "


Ha I loved that game!

I've been programming since I was a wee young lad at the ripe age of 5 or 6 on my Commodore 64 around '85 or '86. Then we had an Atari 1040 ST around '90 and I was into that.

As for object-oriented languages, I was studying University computer science courses in Grade 11, focusing mainly on C++ using DOS Turbo CPP from Borland, which was '96 so you could say almost 10 years...


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Quote: "almost 100 years. (In binary ofcourse).
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Is that even possible?

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It's 4 in Binary.

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When the egg I happened to be in hatched, I found myself to be inside the large, dark, carcass of a 286 someone threw into the lake. After a few days of pumping out the water and sealing the case, I said my first word, "BOOT!!!". When all it did was sit there, I proceded to give it a sharp kick, but failed, due to the fact that fish cannot wear boots with which to kick things. My frustration was growing more and more,and so was my anger. At some point the anger caused amazingly powerfull electrical discharges between my neurons, strong enough to power the archaic beast that sat before me. When the machine sprung to life and said, "No keyboard detected or keyboard error - Press F1 to continue" such was my joy that my brain quickly forgot all the frustration, anger, pain, and whatnot. This caused the electric discharge that powered the machine to cease.
After much toil (MUCH toil, it took me 12 years) I managed to shove it out of the water, onto the lake's edge, with a big sign reading "please plug into nearest power outlet". After a few minutes I was happily hacking away at BAT files. When I got sick of their limitations I moved on to QuickBasic and made a pretty cool Bomberman clone. The fact that sprites had a size limitation made me look for something else, and I ended up using Euphoria. For some reason, all I made with it were DOS utilities. By this time, someone had thrown a 386 into the lake, and that was my first upgrade. One day I stumbled across DBC. I looked around, said, "this sucks." and went back to euphoria. DBP came out and I started messing with it on my new P2 (new to me, P3 had already been released ) as I wanted to play around with 3D graphics. The P2 must have been badly insulated or something, as after a few months it started spouting smoke an died. I ordered an aquarium with wheels and a lawnmower engine over e-bay (it's amazing the things you can buy on that site) and used it to go to a computer store without having to hold my breath. There I got my first computer that wasn't a hand-me-down, or should I say, a throw-me-out. An Athlon XP 1800+. This was probably around the year 2000. The 60gb HD has survived to this day, indicating superb water-proofing. About 2 years ago I started studying CC++ASM and haven't been able to let go of them since.
So, I've been coding since I was 12 totalling up 6 years of codage.

(no, I did not buy a mobile aquarium from e-bay)

[edit] Whoa, this silly post turned out MUCH longer than I had planned.

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Dazzag
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Since 1982. Although I did have a go on a mates ZX81 in 81. He wrote a maze program on it and I had a go at improving it.

Cheers

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About 3 days, and still going strong.


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Milkman
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About 4 years now... I started back in '01/'02, when I picked up "Programming for Dummies" from my library From that piont on I was hooked. Ever since then, I have coded in: Liberty Basic, html (does it count?), javascript, dbc, c++, and finally dbpro, which is by far my favorite of them all

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reading the post after mine, i forgot to mention that i've programmed the ti-84's, and made a pretty fun snake type game on for them

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i put matrix programs on all of th ti-83's in 8th grade. where random numbers would scroll down the screen. It was pretty fun. that of course was written in ASM

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Dodic
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Quote: "that of course was written in ASM"


i LOVE asm (rosasm that is) , it is preatty damn hard , but you can include direct x 9 , and make a spinning cube in like

all needed lines (about 50 , but they are used for everything , so they are there on start..) +

about 20 lines or less...

(befoure a couple of days i was trying to make it , it`s still a bit buggy , and box has a little wierd faces so it looks bad..)

I joined the rosasm yahoo group and there are REALLY helpfull guys who help you at coding + there are many nice code`s for begginers and pro`s to learn or use...

It is new group , but it`s cool !


What have i been programming in ?

Ahm.. I`m not so old at programming , about 2 years now.

I first started with batch "programming" , i made simple stuff that i converted with compiler into .com files , and made a simple dos notepad like programs.

That started my interests about programming , and i downloaded a few basic`s and started programing with them...

Then i bought a book for c++(VISUAL THAT IS) , and i learned some , but i`m not pro at it , but i can make simple applications...

I also used/use Liberty basic at my friend`s place (he bought it , it`s about $30) , and i really liked Liberty becouse i saw how easy and cool it is to make all sorts of windowed programs and games .

Then i found out about FREE Just Basic . I downloaded it as soon as i found out , and noticed that language is almost the same..

I`m still using Just Basic for creating applications , it is good , it can read files , save to files , use music , pictures , you have full controll over the windows gui + you get a VISUAL GUI MAKER , that look`s like Visual Basic a little....

Last program i found about was Dark Basic , and to tell you the truth , yes it did intrested me , but i just never wanted to learn it really , i learned a little .. and then i just started working on stuff in other languages , and kinda forget about it...


Now i`m refreshing what i know and gaining/practising my Db knowelege with Recoding my Racer Generator fully in Dark Basic.


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BatVink,

Quote: "Tron Lightcycles on a Dragon 32 was my first game."


Cool, never one of those. We went through the Apple IIe,Vic20,C64, c128,Amiga a500/a1200 etc etc road.

I have no idea what the first game i wrote was now. All I can recall now is a donkey kong clone and a blast the falling rock thing. On the Apple II (basic). Pretty sure i still the listing at least one of them. Sad really. Might frame it



Pincho,

Quote: "Yeah, about 81/82 on the Speccy. Then commodore 64, then Amiga, Then PC."


Never had a speccy, been through all the same toys though.


Quote: " Done Autocad, and CNC too... Laser cutting, Diamond cutting, Lathing, a bit of Robotics... (A couple of days) all computer programmed machines worth millions of pounds."


Sounds interesting, but work is work afterall.

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since... since.... since.....

Dont code slowly be SWIFT about it!
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Learnt a bit of YABASIC mid-way through 2003, got DBC on 16th October 2003 (my birthhday) then got DBP a few months after. I'd really like to know more about programming but I just don't have the time to sit down and learn and if I do think of an idea I lose interest in it before long: I've often thougt of starting right back at the beginning but that'd never work.

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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "Sounds interesting, but work is work afterall."


Actually it was scary work. Your computer programs can actually be very dangerous on these machines. You have to trust your fingers, and eyes not getting damaged by a simple programming error. I smashed an expensive cutting tool once which shattered like shratnell. My program worked perfectly the first time I ran it, but on the second time I ran it the machine had revolved around. This half turn had brough a nut round into view. (like I first shaved Frankenstein's neck from the back of his head, the second time I shaved the side of his neck with the bolts sticking out.) So my tool hit the nut and shattered all over the place.

Anyhow, I had to learn how to program that machine in 1 day due to somebody going on holiday. I was handed a thick book, and asked to make some Range Rover Gear shafts. It was a bit like swapping basics from DBC to DBP in 1 day. There were just a few differences.

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Quote: "Actually it was scary work. Your computer programs can actually be very dangerous on these machines"


I started working life as an apprentice, learnt CNC and PLC programming. The company made Cam Shaft grinders. In the early '90s they brought out an all-singing version that was controlled by a PC using OS/2 Warp, in place of some of the PLC stuff.

One operator at a customer discovered he could start a new session, and play a soccer game whilst working. He hung the machine, and crashed two grinding wheels into the machine head, which consequently exploded both wheels. Luckily nobody was hit, but there were pieces of grinding wheel embedded in the walls and other machines in a 50 metre radius.

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I started in about 1982 (a popular year it seems!). I had a Sharp MZ700 but it was crappy.The only graphics available were ASCII. So I quiclky moved on to BBC basic using an Acorn Electron at home and a BBC at school.

My first complete project was a character defintion designer. You changed the binary makeup of ASCII codes using VDU23 (I still remember all the VDU codes )
My first finished game was an untitled helicopter rescue game. You 'piloted' the helicopter from on rop of a cliff out to sea, where you lowered a winch to rescue people. As you advanced in levels the wind got stronger affecting the winch cable. It had very basic graphics but I liked it none-the-less


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1982 here too IIRC - Speccy basic .

I must admit to preferring C64 basic, but on the Speccy, programming was just something that everyone seemed to do, like it was manditory to program your spectrum whether you wanted to or not. I made a few text adventures on the 64, then opted for an AtariST and mostly made tech demos, I had a few mates who could compose soundtracker tunes, so making demo's with those was about as much as I did bar a couple of mini-games in GFA Basic and STOS.

Did'nt really do much hobbyist programming on the PC until I found Darkbasic, VB is so wrong for writing games in.


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My first game was called 'The Holy Brail' because I didn't know how to add graphics to the Speccy at first, so I decided to make a game that couldn't possibly have graphics because you were blind. So I had..

Feel room, instead of Examine room. It was a text adventure of course. It teaches you the basic programming techniques.

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Quote: "Ha I loved that game!"

yep, that was a great game

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well, my first game was a mmorpg. i made it in two days. i had never programmed before but i learn quickly. it was written in word97 and sometimes i used notepad, but that was because i had to write my own compiler. then when i was 8 i started on my secound project. it was doom. i sold my source to id software and i helped them with the more difficult tasks, like roof texturing. now i have written my own forum in proboards.com. but i need more members. currently it is just me. the first 10 to join will be global moderators.


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5 Years...

Kinda getting old, starting to use c++ more often

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Nice alot of people have been programming for along time and i didnt know that so many people programed for so long


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Darn. This is one contest I didn't feel like winning. I've been programming since first year of engineering college, which was 1967. Used punch cards and programmed in Fortran, which was a precursor of basic, which is why I like DarkBasic as compared to languages like C. Used to kill time programming card games and astronomical models. Prefer to spend time in DBPro creating large building interiors to walk through.
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 23:22
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Between 2 and 3 years, DBC and Pro.


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Posted: 17th Jan 2006 00:48 Edited at: 17th Jan 2006 00:49
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Klik n' Play - When I was in 5th grade. Found a demo in a sim city cd-rom and changed my life
The Games Factory - Mastered Klik n' Play, and wanted more powerful games maker.
Dark Basic - Learned how to print "Hello World" and print stuff at random places around screen. Tried to make simple game. Failed. Gave up. (Late 5th grade, early 6th grade) (Found this in a school club handout. There was a programming club and it said they used Dark Basic, and then we were interested in Dark Basic and got it. I never went to that club though)
The Games Factory - Did a little more
HTML - Wanted to make website, but didn't have website software.
Qbasic - I saved an old computer my parents were going to throw out. Had Qbasic. Made simple RPG (Late 6th grade)
The Games Factory - Still liked it
Visual Basic - This and Qbasic made me good at programming. Made really stupid space game. (Late 6th grade->
Dark Basic - Re-discovered it. This time, I was better, and could understand it alot better. (Summer break, early 7th grade->

So, I have programmed for 3 years, actual programming 1-2 years, Dark Basic 1 year.


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Posted: 17th Jan 2006 01:03
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6 Years...


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