User:ThePhysicist/blog

Hi,

Here's my pseuddeveloper's blog...

What it's all about

Why a pseudo developer's blog? I don't know! I just like to tell you what I#m waorking on.

Who am I?

Just look at About Me

My general programming knowledge

I first started progrmming, at the age of about 11 or so, when my brother got a C128. I quickly started programming very "basic" things. In 128 BASIC. Then I recognized the assembler monitor in the C128. I read in the manual about it and treid to program, but 8 bit assembler was not very impressive ;-) Later I worked on my father's PC. I quickly startet writing programs in ASM. On of the first programs i wrote, was a program to calculate the square root of 2 up to 32000 digits. I fisrt started with the newton algorithm, but it took too long on a 80086. So my first real informatic/mathmatic things started to develop. I created an optimized (still using a 10 digits system) code was born. It calculated the squareroot of 2 up to 32000 digits an a 80068 machine in few hours. My classmates were impressed about these lots of papers showing numbers. Later, when we had a modem at home, I got used to "email", wich was at this time only messages on a small network. You were able to write messages to other people using the same host or BBS. You could download newsgroups and private messages. That was something like internet is now. Most of us "clients" used a program called Xpoint (CrossPoint), because it was able to download the messages and write new ones ann showed them in a quite good gui (more than 80 charachter per row!) But I started creating my own BBS-system (buttlitin board system, som kind of ANSI based telnet, ANSI makes it possible to show all ASCII charachters even in different fore-/background colors). I set up a program called LORA, wichalso provided downloading and reading of newsgroups and provate messages. But there was no good editor to use thi sfeature. So I began to write a mail reading program, called MrEd, wich was written fully in ASM and was able to read a whole bunch of mail files like LORA / PIP / JAM / QBBS and more and it's gui It was like XPoint (if someome still knows about this pre-intenet-mailbox-times;-)). It never got finished, because some things were changing faster than my code. Some time later most people used windows and their mail came from the intrnet, that was the death of my great project :-( Later I started programming with Pascal. First with 16bit TurboPacal from Borland. I wrote some Windows applications and learned how Windows works. But Borland Pascal didn't take the time and U coudn't use modern (Win95/98) things. So I got a little bored of BorlandPascal. The I had the chance to get a student's edition of MS VB for free! That was great. This was my first time working with object oriented code (is this the right translation?). It is very easy to learn. And in my opinion the best way to learn OOP if you don't know C++. Then it was time for my informatics studes (being a part of my physics studie) to teach me how to really work with OOP. We first started with pretty unknown

But now I am smarter, I think. I have some knowledge about assembler, so I know what is possible and how things really work, I have