Does anyone here program?

Currently learning Java as part of my college's CS coursework. I have no idea why they opted to use it to teach Fundamentals of Programming over Python or C++, since usually those two get a lot of rep as a programmer first language(s) as far as I know. Currently, I can construct simple classes, as well as implement arrays, control flow, and recursion.

I also have a small bit of experience in Web Programming (HTML/CSS/PHP), though that's something I usually do whenever I'm bored.

Has anyone else here used COBOL?

Woah. What a shiny and hopeful night it is for me. It is exactly this time at night, and I just cleared out what may be the very last of the roadblocks ahead of me that were making it difficult to make progress on my console game.

It's called Impending Disaster, and believe it or not all I was having trouble with was getting multiple choice inputs to work and a sneaky thing with while loops. Then some variables didn't let the machine work when I realized I had to declare them before setting their value in the "if" statement.

Pretty simple, really. It's basically a multi-route story where the things you do affect the outcome of the game. I believe I'm a good writer, so hopefully the story will be likable by the time I'm done. Now that I've set DecisionOne and made a fraction of all its things happen for A) B) and C), I think the next course of action should be to open Powerpoint and make a big flowchart detailing every path through the story.

Eventually I'll figure out how to share the .py with people, as a simple file anybody can open.

For that last one, py2exe is probably what you need.

edited 26th Apr '16 6:02:12 PM by Aetol

I'm making a Scratch game for this term's ICT project. it's a retraux platformer, I'm sketching the level designs right now.

edited 26th Apr '16 6:59:45 PM by SmartGirl333

I should get a better program for making flowcharts than the 2003 edition of Powerpoint. And some ideas for the bulk of the story.

(Also, thanks for recommending Py2exe. I'm gonna go far with that.)

edited 26th Apr '16 7:58:58 PM by Pyrarson

I program platformers in Multimedia Fusion 2!!!!

We used Dia back in school.

I started to learn programming in my last year of middle school where we did a little Visual Basic but it was very superficial, we didn't even get to classes.

I then went to a specialized Highschool where we did Java/C#(we could choose, but most picked C# because we used some crude learning software called Bluejay for Java and Visual Studio is just way more awesome) 5 times a week. Additionally we also had microcomputers(Assembler) and Linux as subjects 2 times a week.

It was a cool time.

I then did vocational training as a System-integrator and also did some programming there (mostly Database-connections with C#).

Currently I am working as a C# Programmer / System-administrator (mostly the latter) at a company that does conveyor sorter. I never really got to write on the main program though, but I did write a tool that generates QR-codes and sends them to a label-printer.

...Fuck. Java's so complicated, I can't even write a function in it that takes input of a number some person types into the console and then gives that number back saying that the number +1 above it is slightly better. It's supposed to be the OneUpsYou function, but I call it "pain". Because that's what it causes me.

edited 21st Jul '16 7:39:07 PM by Pyrarson

I think there is a programming or coding questions thread buried in yack fest.

Java is my main language if you have any questions.

I took an online course in Python this term. It's completely extracurricular, but now I know an actual programming language!