Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I'm thinking about going into systems development too, it always seems so interesting for me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/547298/#p547298 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-refl

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @39, embedded programming is fun. There's always something new to learn, a different way of doing things. I'm thinking about going into systems development for that reason -- I definitely enjoy it.

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern For what it's worth, a universities goal isn't necessarily to make you job ready - it's to teach you the concepts that will make you job ready in the future. Personally, as a professional software

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @amerikranian, understandable, because I jump on   people's necks because they mix java and _javascript_. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/546294/#p546294 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audio

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Just being picky here, but C and C++ are different. Please keep this in mind. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/546181/#p546181 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern What? I didn't mean to learn C in 4 hours, I meant going over Pascal coding. I never truly expect myself to grasp C, especially in a short period of time. Previously I saw someone write up a hello function a

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern C++ took me 2 years and a failed project to be a minimum level of competent.  It took me an additional 1-2 years beyond that not to need docs frequently.  C++ documentation looks like this. If you can read the

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Just going to chime in here and say that you shouldn’t touch C++ and expect quick results. Four hours a day will not get you to the level of building audio games for a long, long time. In fact, if that is your goal

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern OK. So I spent a little time on this, possibly hoping to create a small test project to share around with my friends. I got acustom to the sintax which was pretty much a fusion of BGT and Python sintax. My plan was

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern OK. So I spent a little time on this, possibly hoping to create a small test project to share around with my friends. I got acustom to the sintax which was pretty much a fusion of BGT and Python sintax. My plan was

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern just to clarify something. These questions like is programming language x or y accessible? are completely non-sensical. It's not your fault, since you are a novice, but what beginners need to realize is

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @26I'd stop worrying about this. Pascal is older than GUIs in a 100% literal sense.  It's older than DOS.  The only reason you *might* have a problem is if your school mandates a specific graphical-only di

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I dont know, but I personally would take a simple basic language, over Wordpad or Paint. But there are millions of other people who think otherwise, but meh. @24, that was really helpful, but when i clicked the link

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hmmm.Well access wize at university 10 years back, you will use something called freepascal.Search it on the net, get and install it and all its stuff.Now, you can't just use freepascal itself.www.bloodshe

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I would suggest you use the Free Pascal compiler, which has support for the Turbo Pascal syntax. There is a VS Code Extension for Pascal if you want to use it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/544335/#p544335

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I took a college course in Turbo Pascal back in 2008 or so. At the time, I didn't know of a command line compiler, so I used the IDE that the college told us about. It was a DOS program, and it took me a we

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hmm, so i can do it in a text editor? Because lazarous is inaccessible as lemons. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/544305/#p544305 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern While it would be better if they had you learn other languages like Java, C++, _javascript_, or python, there will be many things you will learn from studying Pascal that will help you when you learn the other

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern camlorn wrote:To give you some idea just how archaic archaic is, it stopped being popular before VB6 stopped being popular, if I have the timelines right.  It was a big deal once upon a time, but unlike 3 or 4 other

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern camlorn wrote:To give you some idea just how archaic archaic is, it stopped being popular before VB6 stopped being popular, if I have the timelines right.  It was a big deal once upon a time, but unlike 3 or 4 other

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern camlorn wrote:To give you some idea just how archaic archaic is, it stopped being popular before VB6 stopped being popular, if I have the timelines right.  It was a big deal once upon a time, but unlike 3 or 4 other

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern camlorn wrote:To give you some idea just how archaic archaic is, it stopped being popular before VB6 stopped being popular, if I have the timelines right.  It was a big deal once upon a time, but unlike 3 or 4 other

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern And if you wanted even more resources, I found a intro guide, that I think teaches you how to do stuff with the terminal, so if you're in a situation like me, here's a ok resource.https://castle

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Agreed with Ty URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543889/#p543889 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Okay, in case anyone wanted this, I found an opened source Pascal game. But don't ask me about the acessibilty. Its truly a cross platform game, minus Android as usual.http://www.hedgewars.org/download/relea

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Agree with Ty. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543889/#p543889 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Lol school again. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543888/#p543888 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern To clarify, I don't mind docstrings or comments describing what a function does. I do mind however having one of those and then commenting every like third line of code as well. URL: https://forum.audiogame

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I need to start commenting like you, camlorn. I hardly ever do. I'll probably just have a comment at the top of the file, because seeing"""This function does blah, blah blah and blah.It returns

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @11, yeah, tat sounds like the modern business: "Lets use ancient stuff until it just doesn't work any more. And for our IoT and embedded systems, lets not update or patch them because we supposedly don&

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @10 OOP is object oriented programming. Also known as how you sound cool when you want to talk about how you use classes for stuff in a job interview.  OOP features just means "has classes and inheritance"

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @8Cobol is still widely used in the banking/financial sector, and the last update to the standard for it was (I think) 2014.  I don't have specific sources on hand, but my understanding of that one is that basi

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern what in the world is oop? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543868/#p543868 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Also, @6, yeah, I need to start commenting my code that way too. I use Rust but the concept is the same... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543866/#p543866 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @op, I can tell you that I have never seen pascal used in anything I've downloaded other than cheat engine and Innosetup. Pascal is pretty much dead. Its been dead for a long, long time. It doesn't help

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Also I lied, that file is 246 lines.  To put it in perspective as to why the comment is valuable. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/543864/#p543864 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern @5Even U.S. universities do bad at this.  See also every school that teaches C as a first programming language while expecting good results.  I suspect your schools don't care because updating it is expensive

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hello,@1: take my deepest condolences.1. Regarding accessibility no, as long as you use command line compiler, I don't know about ides.2. No, powered to 10. I would rather use bath script than Pascal, per

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Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Ouch. The commenting sounds quite painful. But seriously though, I should actually get into it. About 2 years ago or so, we were talking about file extensions and I can't remember how, but .pas ended up comi

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hello,@1: take my deepest condolences.1. Regarding accessibility no, as long as you use command line compiler, I don't know about ides.2. No, powered to 10. I would rather use bath script than Pascal, per

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern I don't know Pascal. I know of pascal.  It is one of the most archaic things I can think of, and with something like one exception (innosetup) it's not used in any major modern projects to my knowle

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern So, according to the Syllabus, I'll have to first design the algorithm, which, if I remember correctly, is basically saying, to do this, the script will have to add x and devide by z then do that. Which

What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hello everyone. So, it has recently come to my attension that next term I'll be learning Pascal in school. So, I wanted to skip ahead so that I could probably have time to play around and do some stuff with it b

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

Re: What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern So, according to the Syllabus, I'll have to first design the algorithm, which, if I remember correctly, is basically saying, to do this, the script will have to add x and devide by z then do that. Which

What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern

What do you guys think of Pascal, in terms of accessibility and modern Hello everyone. So, it has recently come to my attension that next term I'll be learning Pascal in school. So, I wanted to skip ahead so that I could probably have time to play around and do some stuff with it b