Jorge Luis wrote:
* Frank Cox:
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0930
I learned to type in school on huge Underwood manual typewriters. (I was the
only boy in the high school typing class; I thought it would be a good skill to
learn. Obviously, I was right.)
My ex-father in law had been
* Frank Cox:
> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0930
>
> I learned to type in school on huge Underwood manual typewriters. (I was the
> only boy in the high school typing class; I thought it would be a good skill
> to
> learn. Obviously, I was right.)
My ex-father in law had been in the Army duri
Hi Paul;
I have noticed this thread has drifted down memory lane. To return to
your original question
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 18:51 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
> to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would
Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 10:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> I learned to program in basic by typing in the listings, then working
>> out why the game didn't run, or why it was so simplistic that I could
>> add several features to it. Computing was pure fun in those days -
>> for most of
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:51 AM, m wrote:
>> I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
>> to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
>> resources.
>>
> Have a look here...
>
> http://www.freebookcentre.net/Language/Free-C-Books-Download.html
Many t
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 00:48 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> The typing class taught me a number of things other than straight
> typing that have been very useful over the years. How to properly
> fold a letter to fit into an envelope, as one example.
Well, that too. But we did learn a few more useful
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:39 +0930, Tim wrote:
> I've still got a VZ300 (Z80 CPU) computer in the box of bits, here.
> It was one of those all hardware and no software devices. Someday
> I'll find someone who wants it to play with.
I'm sure someone will pick me up on the above. Yes, it does have
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 10:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I learned to program in basic by typing in the listings, then working
> out why the game didn't run, or why it was so simplistic that I could
> add several features to it. Computing was pure fun in those days -
> for most of us it didn't impi
On Sunday 05 April 2009 03:09:45 Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> > Remember the old David Ahl "Basic Computer Games" books? (If you
> > don't, you can find them online at http://www.atariarchives.org )
>
> I remember books like that for other systems. We'd spend
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:17:29 +0930
Tim wrote:
> We had big heavy manual typewriters, too. I was a bit cautious about
> signing up for typing classes, figuring that I'd be the only boy, and
> subject to ridicule outside of the class. Oddly, the class was about
> half and half. I guess they were
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 20:42 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> You had it easy with your punched cards. I once worked on a box that
> required toggling in the boot loader code via switches on the front
> panel. But at least I never had to program in raw binary, the box had
> an assembler.
At college, w
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 22:28 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I actually learned to type numbers by typing in all of those MLX programs out
> of Compute! magazine on my Commodore 64.
I learnt binary and hex from hours of graphics programming. We'd colour
in graph paper for our designs, then convert that
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 22:44 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> You had it easy with the tiny text window. I started my mainframe
> career just as IBM shops were converting over to huge CRT monitors and
> the joys ISPF edit, but were still using punched cards for some
> things. So I had a little expo
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Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
resources.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Have a look here...
http://www.freebookcentre.net/Language/Free-C-Books-Download.html
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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0930
Tim wrote:
> You don't know how lucky you are, now, with your precompiled RPMs...
I actually learned to type numbers by typing in all of those MLX programs out
of Compute! magazine on my Commodore 64.
I learned to type in school on huge Underwood manual typewr
Robert L Cochran wrote:
You had it easy with the tiny text window. I started my mainframe career
just as IBM shops were converting over to huge CRT monitors and the joys
ISPF edit, but were still using punched cards for some things. So I had
a little exposure to correcting a punched card which i
You had it easy with the tiny text window. I started my mainframe career
just as IBM shops were converting over to huge CRT monitors and the joys
ISPF edit, but were still using punched cards for some things. So I had
a little exposure to correcting a punched card which is part of a card
deck, but
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Remember the old David Ahl "Basic Computer Games" books? (If you
> don't, you can find them online at http://www.atariarchives.org )
I remember books like that for other systems. We'd spend ages typing in
code, there'd be some obscure typing
http://www.tenouk.com/
It's really a great online classroom!
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
> to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
> resources.
>
> Thanks in adva
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan
The second sentence is incorrect.
"by definition" !
On 04Apr2009 14:01, m wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
>> I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
>> to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
>> resources.
>
> http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/index.html
> http://c-faq.com/
>
> There i
Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
resources.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/index.html
http://c-faq.com/
There is also
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:51:43 +0100
Paul Smith wrote:
> I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
> to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
> resources.
Remember the old David Ahl "Basic Computer Games" books? (If you don't, you
can find them o
Dear All,
I am trying to learn C. Could you please suggest to me some resources
to help me with learning C? Preferably, I would like find online
resources.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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