Geek-ish

[myz_lilith]

Funny kind of update, i know... but:

Was talking to my (Silicon Valey geniius)brother, who was going to brief me on various stages of c. Turned out that I actually remember 90% of modren day computing from when I was 4 as:

1) It can't actually change as it all comes down, eventually, to something = 1 or 0 (whatever spin you put on it, computing today is punchcards but facter... as is the brain... all of life comes down to the rizla game... )
(I always won it)

2) It's all either "X = (CONDITION\STATEMNT)" and\or "If X is... um... x then do x... if not do y" which I learnt (and did) when I was 5. Which makes me think of all the human languages I speak where the trick is not getting them to understand you, but understanding them in return. Which I'm starting to think I might be able to do...

Anyway, onto the next one...

Comments

[lykeios.livejournal.com]

Thats about right... it's actually all coding no matter what language comes down to three things.

1. Statement ( i.e. do something )
2. Selection ( i.e. do something or do something else )
3. Iteration ( i.e. do something lots of times )
( in other words 2 is pretty much there but the above is the unofficial official way of saying it...)

and it does indeed all come down to 1/0 which is kinda depressing when ya think about it...

[attack-monkey.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right!

:)

I can do about 8 or 9 programming languages at the moment, and as long as you work out how to assign variables, do conditional structures and branching logic, the rest is just a case of figuring out all the language specific commands and syntax. For example I learn't Javascript ages ago, which has in turn enabled me to learn other similar languages quite quickly (C#, java etc). Some of the less human readable languages (like c++) take a bit more doing though, I guess they're the japanese of programming.........

Can't seem to do proper languages though, although I do fancy learning some new ones at some point.

:)

[blondelass.livejournal.com]

I remember doing stuff like that on the Spectrum (which shows how long ago it was).

Oh, and thanks for the lovely Christmas message you sent me. In case you can't remember what it was, this is it...

"Have a wonderfully merry *hic* Christmas and a bouncy boingy sproingy all-good-things then even better ones New Year xXxXx"