| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 6/20/2009 12:13:37 PM | I'm a web developer. These days I'm mostly doing AJAX/ASP.NET/web services sort of stuff using C#. Although I understand some of your feelings about MS, the bulk of the available programming jobs around here are using .NET. As a web developer, my primary concern is with cross-browser compatibility anyways.
Technology changes so quickly that the point of C# being a dead end is pretty much a moot point. Even C# 1.0 is outdated these days. You constantly update your skills or die in this industry. | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 6/20/2009 8:27:46 PM | I do some programming, I was taught how to do it in notebook.... I am not hard core into it, just some PhP and CSS.
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/10/2009 2:53:00 AM | I've programmed on my own since the TI-99 4A , and then Commodore 64. and later Visual Basic. In the 2008 Express Version, I have added a DataGridViewer to a Form. with a Data Source, and when I run the program, it shows the data, and lets me change it, ( and even save the new data)
But how do I manipulate the data in the program ? i.e. read the data in the first 5 rows and total it, and then store it in another Cell ? THIS Seams to be missing from the HELP File. ( I found the other answers in HELP )
Do I Need a DataSet ? and DataBindingSource ?
For that matter I've never figured out how to Read and Print# Data to and from a file. | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/10/2009 4:10:02 PM | | About 5 years from now you'll realise that school only taught you how to read it, put your head into it, and do it. lol | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/10/2009 4:23:50 PM | School teaches you two things:
1) How to think your way through a problem, though I suspect a lot of people who are programmers already knew this part.
2) How to read technical documentation. This is really important in the embedded world, everything you need to know about how something works is in the datasheet.
Yeah, you may have learned C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, SQL, VB, Perl, LISP, Ruby, Ada, VHDL, Verilog, Javascript, etc... (I ran out) in school, but it was all for the purpose of teaching you #1 above. If you know how to THINK like a programmer, you can write any program you want to, in any language you want. The hardest part is being able to understand basic constructs (loops, decisions, operators) and how to think logically through a problem. Once you have that part down, actually making the program is easy. | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/10/2009 5:34:57 PM | | I was hired as a software developer, although these days it seems I mostly break it and suggest fixes. | |
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Posted: 7/10/2009 7:35:34 PM | mostly bare metal programming (microkernels, instructions sets, machine language and microcode)
things like
MOVX ACC,*[R0]
CJNE B, sub_0001
I design custom processors and accelerators for specific functions where software is to slow. I need to come up with my own instructions sets. Currently working on a 150 bit VLIW machne (2x 64 bit data, 16 arguments and 6 bits for instructon) the machine has 14 instructions withsome variants. All instructions run in 1 clockcyle. Machine is optimized for fast context switching. i designed a high level language for it that des not use a runtime library. Actually the high level instruction set was designed first, then the barmetal work was done. Programs are very eay to write and debug and are deterministic in nature. | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/10/2009 10:15:34 PM | | Used all sorts of languages but my favorite is LabVIEW from National Instruments. You program mostly by drag and drop icons which cover most I/O features and an incredible set of functions from simple additions to complex filtering, even image processing. Develpment takes about 10% of the time to develop the same program in C. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 11:56:02 AM | I used to love playing with com ports on my spaking new 286. Grabbing the ANI and pulling up the client history while the phone rang just blew me away. Then I tried to get Bell into giving me access to their cell network to triangulate the location of a moving cell phone. As surprising as it sounds, I almost got it. New privacy legislation had just passed and put the breaks on it.
Come to think of it, I don't know why the PrePaid market are having a hard time with 911 compliance (at least in Canada). Maybe they need a few old timers in there who know what the old pipes are for and where they go.  | |
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| Are there any programmers here?
Posted: 7/11/2009 12:03:26 PM |
But how do I manipulate the data in the program ? i.e. read the data in the first 5 rows and total it, and then store it in another Cell ? THIS Seams to be missing from the HELP File. ( I found the other answers in HELP ) Read through the Functions and Methods. You'll stumble upon stuff like SUM() and MyDataGrid.Cell("A1") and such. Then put them together something like:
MyDataGrid.Cell("B3") = SUM(MyDataGrid.Cell("A2", "F2"))
As a programmer, you have to figure it out, or you're not programming, someone you asked is. lol. | |
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