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
* 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 during
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 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 ages
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 impinge
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 a
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, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:51 AM, m maximilianbia...@gmail.com 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...
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 us it
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
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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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
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 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 maximilianbia...@gmail.com 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://www.tenouk.com/
It's really a great online classroom!
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com 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.
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
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,
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
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
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 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
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, we
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