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01-27-2004, 08:11 PM

Oh ok hahah I wasn't sure if you were trying to be an asshole. Actually I'll be 20 in sept.

I wrote my first program in BASIC on a little VTECH 2 line LCD computer in 6th grade that my grandparents gave me and I was hooked. I started building them for my first job when I was 15. Since then I met a former microsoft programmer [who says a lot of stuff that makes sense once I learn it, but it's very broad and never specific, almost like he has no idea what he's talkin about] who was impressed with my knowledge and gave me a copy of the VB 5.0 professional. I spent the entire summer of 10th grade cooped up trying to fuigure it out. Since then I've ****ed around with PHP, VB, C++, Javascript, Macromedia Actionscript [which I used very uniqely in a school play as part of a backdrop], .bat, .inf. Assembly is the only language I have yet to learn, although I understand it. I'm currently putting myself through community college getting my electronics technician degree and I want to build and LS/VTEC hybrid in a crx with junkyard parts for cheap so I can hack into the ECU and **** with it and stuff. I've been studying in particular game programming and windows architecture because trying to create my own platforms for a device I have in mind would be insane. Rather I should mimick the windows architecture and it's relationship to gaming programming. That's how I know about blitter and bit shifting. I am also familiar, although not experienced, with microprocessors and microcontrollers and their inherit communications principles. I have a lot of stuff I want to do to my car that involves takin electrical components apart and rebuilding them and such, so I'm takin TIG welding [MIG this summer, although I don't know what possible advantages it could have over TIG] and might get my ASE along with my electronics technician degree. I am familiar with everthing about computers except the translation of hex into assembly and the dependance of windows on hardware protocols like .vxd's and their relation to hardware. That is a very closely gaurded secret by microsoft I am guessing. I might dabble in windows CE and see if it has anything to offer me in the area of device creation seeing as it has a host of support for non80486 processors like the hitachi-h7 found in dreamcasts. I was also interested in programming games for dreamcasts because the GNU compiler for windows was capable of building h7 compatible exes that I could burn to cd's with the right headers that could run on a dreamcast. I abandoned that though because it really had nothing to offer me. I wrote a database program in which I used SQL probably in a way it was never designed to be used for a friends dads' mortgage company. I've done macromedia flash presentations that just ran forever for banquets. I've actually got a small prototype website on my computer and apache server. I have ****ed around with, but never had much use for, the windows API aside from game programming. I was contemplating developing a website product management package that used PHP to read a product database and order processing from an SQL database that is managed with a VB server side component that would manage products and orders. I just don't have time for that one though, I'm too busy.

Plain and simple - I'm the worlds biggest geek. I learned all this stuff on my own, not some high school C++ class where they teach you about recursive functions. I've actually written useful shit.

01-27-2004, 08:11 PM	#29
bigbear Posts: n/a	Oh ok hahah I wasn't sure if you were trying to be an asshole. Actually I'll be 20 in sept. I wrote my first program in BASIC on a little VTECH 2 line LCD computer in 6th grade that my grandparents gave me and I was hooked. I started building them for my first job when I was 15. Since then I met a former microsoft programmer [who says a lot of stuff that makes sense once I learn it, but it's very broad and never specific, almost like he has no idea what he's talkin about] who was impressed with my knowledge and gave me a copy of the VB 5.0 professional. I spent the entire summer of 10th grade cooped up trying to fuigure it out. Since then I've **ed around with PHP, VB, C++, Javascript, Macromedia Actionscript [which I used very uniqely in a school play as part of a backdrop], .bat, .inf. Assembly is the only language I have yet to learn, although I understand it. I'm currently putting myself through community college getting my electronics technician degree and I want to build and LS/VTEC hybrid in a crx with junkyard parts for cheap so I can hack into the ECU and with it and stuff. I've been studying in particular game programming and windows architecture because trying to create my own platforms for a device I have in mind would be insane. Rather I should mimick the windows architecture and it's relationship to gaming programming. That's how I know about blitter and bit shifting. I am also familiar, although not experienced, with microprocessors and microcontrollers and their inherit communications principles. I have a lot of stuff I want to do to my car that involves takin electrical components apart and rebuilding them and such, so I'm takin TIG welding [MIG this summer, although I don't know what possible advantages it could have over TIG] and might get my ASE along with my electronics technician degree. I am familiar with everthing about computers except the translation of hex into assembly and the dependance of windows on hardware protocols like .vxd's and their relation to hardware. That is a very closely gaurded secret by microsoft I am guessing. I might dabble in windows CE and see if it has anything to offer me in the area of device creation seeing as it has a host of support for non80486 processors like the hitachi-h7 found in dreamcasts. I was also interested in programming games for dreamcasts because the GNU compiler for windows was capable of building h7 compatible exes that I could burn to cd's with the right headers that could run on a dreamcast. I abandoned that though because it really had nothing to offer me. I wrote a database program in which I used SQL probably in a way it was never designed to be used for a friends dads' mortgage company. I've done macromedia flash presentations that just ran forever for banquets. I've actually got a small prototype website on my computer and apache server. I have **ed around with, but never had much use for, the windows API aside from game programming. I was contemplating developing a website product management package that used PHP to read a product database and order processing from an SQL database that is managed with a VB server side component that would manage products and orders. I just don't have time for that one though, I'm too busy. Plain and simple - I'm the worlds biggest geek. I learned all this stuff on my own, not some high school C++ class where they teach you about recursive functions. I've actually written useful shit.