Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Josh Lee
> Josh, don't sell yourself short! You already are way ahead of many. > > My advice is to stick with Lazarus/FPC as they will help you get where you > want to go faster. > > Just keep learning! Thank you, Doug. I will. I feel motivated :) -- ___ Lazar

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Josh Lee
First of all, software over it. And if I become advanced enough, write one from scratch. Josh Lee Programmer - Owner of JLSoftware On 29 Jul 2010, at 12:47 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Josh Lee > wrote: >> Sorry, PDA was the only name I could t

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/28/2010 4:45 PM, Josh Lee wrote: In my life, I would like to code a PDA I know it's far-fetched, and I would have to become much more advanced. I would really love to have some sort of handheld device with a keyboard in my pocket, I would take it out, and boot it up, and have a command li

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Josh Lee wrote: > Sorry, PDA was the only name I could think of to describe this Ok, PDA is the right word. The problem was that you should have specified that you want to write the entire software system of the PDA, not just a software running on top of an exist

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Josh Lee wrote: I would first want to code a pre-built PDA that already has an OS, then eventually as I learn enough, code an empty one from scratch. (And maybe even build one - Although that would take a lot of knowledge into hardware, I guess) In that case see links posted in this thread, a

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Josh Lee
> What does PDA stand for in this case? > > I know only Personal Digital Assistent. Sorry, PDA was the only name I could think of to describe this - I mean a small, handheld device with a keyboard,with that you organise data via command line or a GUI. Similar to this, which was my childish in

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Josh Lee
I would first want to code a pre-built PDA that already has an OS, then eventually as I learn enough, code an empty one from scratch. (And maybe even build one - Although that would take a lot of knowledge into hardware, I guess) Josh Lee Programmer - Owner of JLSoftware On 29 Jul 2010, at 09:4

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 07/29/2010 10:45 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: What does PDA stand for in this case? I know only Personal Digital Assistent. I don't suppose hes in Epidural anesthesia, which is called PDA ("Periduralanästhesie" -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periduralan%C3%A4sthesie) in Germany

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Josh Lee wrote: > In my life, I would like to code a PDA What does PDA stand for in this case? I know only Personal Digital Assistent. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Josh Lee wrote: In my life, I would like to code a PDA The big question is whether you mean that you'd like to take a lifeless PCB, possibly that you've designed and built, and get it to do useful stuff, or simply to take a PDA that somebody else has brought to life and write software on to

Re: [Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Breneman
Hi Josh, I've been programming for about 5 years, and I'm quite young in age. I just love programming so much. Ever since I tried a program at school called Scratch, which uses a basic language in the form of GUI blocks. In my life, I would like to code a PDA I know it's far-fetched, and I wou

[Lazarus] Coding A PDA

2010-07-28 Thread Josh Lee
Hello people. I've been programming for about 5 years, and I'm quite young in age. I just love programming so much. Ever since I tried a program at school called Scratch, which uses a basic language in the form of GUI blocks. In my life, I would like to code a PDA I know it's far-fetched, and