Geek Skillz!

[Bub@]

Continuing with the computer-like topics, here is another one asking which programming languages you know and why you know them. Or any other skill related to this?

Languages:
Pascal (pretty useless, had to learn it for my computer class)
HTML (just because I like it)
Robolab (the one for programming legos, for my robotics class. pretty easy)
Microsoft Visual Basic (a little, learned it for a computer class)

Currently learning: Flash (just because I want)

Skillz (pretty lame):
- Can fix just about everything involving software (if not, find a way around it).
- Help most "common" computer users.
- Find just about any info.
- Find just about any files and games (FREEWARE of course ;) )

Useless Skillz (even more lame):
- Fill any hardrive I have near me, with stupid but important apps, and lots of movies and mp3...
- Open up so many programs in the taskbar that the computer frozes...
- Talk with myself in Trillian. (sooo lame)
- Program a calculator on Visual Basic.

[Andurin]

Know/Currently learning:
-Java, I say 'know/currently learning because I'm taking the intro class, but people say that I'm already pretty good at it.
-My TI-83. 8) I almost have text based black jack on it, but I lost interest.

Want to learn: C or C++

1337 skilx0rz(lamer than above)
-Most things in the Java in built paint, I can just see in my head
-I automatically think like a programmer. If I see some game or something, other than the fun factor running through my head, I've started organizing 'if', 'for', etc statements, thought of what kind of classes it would use, etc
-I created a de-sorting algorithm on my calculator. Basically, it takes a set of numbers, then rearranges them. Useful if you want a deck of cards.
-I've tackled a couple of the AP comp science programs and came out almost victorious.

Other various things:
-Photoshop? I'm fairly okayish with it...

[Gary Oak]

Know:

HTML (Duh :p... I could HTML all your asses to the ground if I so wished)
PHP (I would say i'm still in the learning process of using it to work with MySQL, but i've got most of what I need to know pinned down, it's just a matter of remembering everything without the need for a reference. I'll get there eventually)
PERL (Though i've never really used it and it's completely and utterly redundant these days it has proved handy enough in the past. Especially when we still ran on the old YaBB on 'Charms.)
BASIC
Pascal
Visual Basic (Though Visual Basic itself as a program annoys the frelling hell out of me)
CSS
MySQL

I think that's about it.

My Skillz0rs lie in thusly:

Easy adaption to any program or language. - I've never really needed a manual to learn any of what I know. Once i've established the basics in my mind, it's all go from there.

UBER HTML skillz - All the HTML I know is self-taught. By the time i'd gotten round to tutorials for the harder stuff, I already knew what they were trying to teach me. All my coding has always been done in HTML, every design i've ever done has been done purely in HTML. The only thing i've ever used the WYSIWYG function in DreamWeaver is to make individual pages from a set template easily.

I'm also a dab hand at editing out backgrounds and stuff in Photoshop and am not too bad at making banners using such stuff.

I also fart around in flash from time to time but suck badly at it. The artistic level required for most of it is beyond me completely and the methods you have to use on the timeline etc annoy me, though they make sense.

I'm also an 0b3r 84xx0r in my spare time. ^^

[pohatufan1returns]

Teh Pohatu is teh one with teh mad computar skillz!!!1!

Said skills involve such incredible activities as:

- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu type out little novels under the watchful eye of a paperclip
- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu listen to his favorite tunes with bizarre graphic effects like "Alchemy: Randomization" to match
- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu make little charts and tables so teh Pohatu can keep his little life in order
- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu explore the very limits of artistic innovation with such tools as "Fill with Color", "Eraser/Color Eraser" and "Delete" (teh Pohatu uses this tool very often, hohoho)
- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu surf the web, and indeed a program which is responsible for letting you all read this message in the first place
- Activating, by double-clicking, a special program that lets teh Pohatu play Age of Mythology: The Titans for various amounts of hours, many of which come directly out of teh Pohatu's study time

[RLRL]

I am currently learning C# which is the step up from C++, heh I learnt how to programme a game of chess which is actually hard to beat!

[Lugiasian]

I have a book that teaches HTML, but I never really bother to read it.

Man, I gotta get off my lazy *** more often. =P

I have very little Photoshop skillz, but I can make a mean sprite edit. >=D

[Gary Oak]

Photoshop is terrible for spritework. Mostly because it's built for big flashy special effects for that 'proffessional' touch. Not for people to edit copyrighted sprites from videogames. ^^

[Lugiasian]

Photoshop is terrible for spritework. Mostly because it's built for big flashy special effects for that 'proffessional' touch. Not for people to edit copyrighted sprites from videogames. ^^

Who said I used it for sprites? :p

I use it for my drawings, whenever I want to give a sketch a final flashy touch. Only problem is I still use Photoshop 5.5 and I suck at using it anyway. ^^;

[Metal Mewtwo]

I'm going to prove how geeky I really am by pointing out to you all that HTML is not technically a programming language (but I know it regardless)

Other than that, I know:

-Visual BASIC
-C++
-PBasic (an annoyling little language that I have to use in my Robotics class)

[baratron]

My l33t Fortran 77 skill pwns any of your newfangled Visual Basic rubbish :p.

As part of my degree I had to write a Fortran program to calculate and plot the atomic orbitals of the hydrogen atom. Yes, I only just escaped with my life, why do you ask?

[Andurin]

Would you like to know what's frikking awsome about my CS class? OUr final project for this semester is to create a game. I mean, how awsome is that, when you are forced to make a game, and your grade depended on it.

[Gary Oak]

ovanniI'm going to prove how geeky I really am by pointing out to you all that HTML is not technically a programming language (but I know it regardless)


I was going to mention that and put all the web-design stuff in a seperate section, but then I noticed Bub@ just mentioned languages. ^^ And though not a programming language per se, HTML is still a language. ^^ I think it's really quite hard, these days especially, to be able to apply HTML without being able to use other actual languages, such as php. PERL used to be quite big of course but it's a dying breed. Thankfully, since php 0wnz PERL.

[Bub@]

It is :P.

Anyway, I'm planning on learning C ++, any good book anyone can recommend me?

[RLRL]

Don't bother learning C++ its too old now, learn C# its the upgrade