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16th March 2009, 12:55am
#1
by WhiteEagle
Camrose, Alberta Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 161

Hey all,

I'd like to know who are the programmers (staff or otherwise) who play here. What languages do you program in? What has been your most toughest thing to program yet?

I program in Python, XHTML, PHP, and CSS. My toughest project yet has been a RSA cracker that uses a new algorithm I developed that theoretically speeds it up. I still have not finished it due to the complexity of it. I am currently considering programming a dice baseball game in Python.

16th March 2009, 09:43pm
#2
by Narz
Pitman, New Jersey United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 2809

Do you know anyone who programs in Java?

17th March 2009, 12:03am
#3
by WhiteEagle
Camrose, Alberta Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 161

I used to know how to do some Java...was part of a university course I dropped out of.

1st April 2009, 07:16pm
#4
by opiejames
Frisco United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 161

There are still a few of us dinasaurs who still use COBOL IMS and DB2 and JCL types left.  Go Mainframes! 

2nd April 2009, 01:29am
#5
by PerfectGent
St Andrews Scotland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1722

i still play about with delphi 6

i used to code patches for the ibm mainframes in assembler Surprised

i can still read fluent hex

19th April 2009, 09:40pm
#6
by DaveShack
Tucson AZ United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 340

I mostly design now, but have coded in most of the major languages.

Sometimes I do hex math if it only has to be close enough to be in the right page of a dump.

11th May 2009, 07:58pm
#7
by tmdowner
Ohio United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 7

I've programmed in a wide variety of languages over the course of the last two decades.  I've done it professionally, but right now I code for fun (professionally, strangely, it isn't that fun).  I started with Apple Basic and right now I use perl more than anything (although I will be using a lot of javascript again soon).

The most difficult thing I've done.. that's hard to pinpoint.  Back in the day before graphics engines I wrote my own 2D vector engine using mode 13h in pascal, and then used it for a few games I wrote.  So in terms of sheer mathematical complexity I would say that would be it.. On the other hand, I wrote an online game a while back (more recent) that almost reached 800,000 lines, and simply managing that amount of (unplanned) code made it more difficult in a lot of ways.

12th May 2009, 01:33pm
#8
by WhiteEagle
Camrose, Alberta Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 161

I wonder how complicated that dice baseball game would be to code...Undecided

9th October 2009, 07:28am
#9
by WhiteEagle
Camrose, Alberta Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 161
WhiteEagle wrote:

I wonder how complicated that dice baseball game would be to code...


I found out it was too tough for me to do!Foot in mouth

16th November 2009, 11:05pm
#10
by WhiteEagle
Camrose, Alberta Canada
Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 161

Anyone who wants to help develop a new application for Facebook? It won't be chess-related, but it will be strategy based!Wink

 

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