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August 29th 04, 02:00 AM
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Frank Gilliland wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:30:50 GMT, jim wrote in : Leland C. Scott wrote: "Twistedhed" wrote in message ... Do or can you write and design software programs? I did for class projects when I was working on my computer science degree. The biggest program was an integrated DOS utility for reading disk parameters, viewing the raw sector data, showing what disk clusters were used by any file on the disk, and finally a disk defragmentation function. The program featured pop-up overlapping menus, hot keys, and mouse control. It was written in C++ and took me about 2-1/2 months to write working on it around 15 to 20 hours per week, design - test - debugging. And after all that it was specifically written for a 720K floppy disk so the professor could test it without killing his hard drive in case of bugs. All that was for a project for a class I took in operating systems. I think mine was the only one that worked and also handled subdirectories too. Even the 20+ something year old class computer geek wiz, and the professor's pet student no less, couldn't do it. I got the "look" from him in the hallway one day at the start of the next semester. I haven't really gotten in to doing Windows programming, it's event driven verses procedural coded. That's a totally different animal. Windows programming is a real pain, and complex if you really want to take full advantage of the system. For simple programs that don't need a lot of fancy wiz-bang features Visual Basic is a good choice to use. The other choices are Visual C++, C#, or Java. The last three are object orientated languages. That could be a big chuck to bite off and learn for somebody who hasn't done any programming at all. I've also done some Intel assembly language programming - 8080 and X86, and VAX-11 assembly too. Assembly language programming is to computers like Morse Code is to Ham Radio. Now that I think about it the first computer I had was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with16K of memory. The first assembly language program I wrote, in Z80 assembly, was to translate text on the screen into Morse Code by keying the relay contact used to control the record/play-back function of the cassette recorder used for program storage. jeez leland you are showing your age  i fixed the hardware problemsassociated with the 8080 processor on several military related programs. hell we used uv ovens to clear the memories of chips. the simulators the air force used drum drive technology and if the sims were having a problem we took out an alan key and physically moved the read/write heads until it worked. the damn drum drives were used in grumman a6 aircraft also. hehehe looking back its a wonder that stuff actually worked. Do you remember "bubble memory"? vaguely. never dealt with it professionally. |
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