About Me

Ontario, Canada
In regards to this blog, I am simply trying to learn to program in my free hours after work in order to make an iPhone game.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Visual Web Developer

So, I am running through a list of videos here;


And finiding out that making a website from scratch, all hand written, is a little bit obsolete. Depending on how you set up your page, you may need some code clean up but for the most part VWD seems to do a fantastic job of keeping things neat and tidy. In fact one of the most amazing aspects of VWD was its CSS handler/manager. Wow! Not only do you NOT need to memorize all the different options/syntax but they have all your customizations listed right there for you, to pick apart at your leisure.

I am very impressed with this piece of software. I must say.

Cheers!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Still Learning

Just a brief post today.

I had taken a hiatus for various reasons a month ago (mainly being sick) but I am trying to get back in to the swing of things, though I am taking a slightly different direction currently.

Right now I am trying my hand at .NET programming. Specifically asp.NET. I am not really versed on everything as of yet, and I am not QUITE sure which specific language I am actually learning, but currently it seems like (as I am using Visual Web Developer 2008 express) I am utilizing a few different languages. Mainly C#, HTML, AJAX, Java and Visual Basic. I am sure there are/is more to it than that, but as of my second day, that seems to be the gist of it.

My goal in utilizing asp.NET is to be able to create a simple income tracker for my business, using a SQL database server that we already have running for other things.

We shall see how it goes, and I will try to keep this, blog, updated more frequently than as-of-late.

Cheers!

Monday, May 25, 2009

Sicko!

Hey there!

So, I apologize for not having post here in the last few days as I have been consumed with getting better from a UTI. Seems my body is just open to all kinds of infection these days. I wonder if grey hair is infectious? (I am 24 for the record)

I should be back in to the swing of things by next week, maybe late this week. Been playing a lot of games and reading a lot of manga lately. I finished up X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Pretty fun game, but it was too long. If they had expelled the puzzle sections of the game it would have had a much better flow.

Read through the first volume of the Pluto manga, and wow what a great story so far. Though I will write more about those on a second blog I am going to be starting up soon (all for manga reviews).

Until Next Time!

Friday, May 15, 2009

While we wait

A quick update.

I have started on chapter 17 of C for Dummies. It discusses 'while'
loops and their pros and cons versus using 'for' loops.

My understanding so far is that while using 'while' loops may be
easier in the short term, using 'for' loops provide you with more
flexibility in what you can accomplish.

I will update again once I have finished the chapter.

Cheers!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Repeat After Me

Ok, so since I have not been reading much lately due to being sick I figure I can post a short piece of code that I had previously written to show you what kind of level I am at.

So, first, the code (it is in an image format since when I use the 'code' function in here the formatting goes to shit).



This is simply one piece of a 5 part code, though this piece represents, almost exactly, what happens later on.

Basically this program tells the user to repeat after it using the correct keys.

It tells the user to type every number it says in numerals. ie. ONE = 1

(the program goes up to the number 5, since the code is redundant, there was no need to keep going as the ideas behind it are easily learned from the first few instances)

The fun of writing this program though was figuring out how to take the users WRONG answer and allow them to try again, and again, and again, and then continuing on with the program when they finally get it right.

Obviously it is very hard to screw up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 but the ideas behind it hold true. Being able to take a wrong answer and allowing the user to try once more. ie. error checking, so to speak.

Another part of the fun of writing this program was the fact that I was still very green on how do/while loops worked so it was very pleasing when it finally worked just right. I had some looping issues with certain areas not being displayed properly, or areas being printed twice in a row. The fix for that was making sure I was using the 'fpurge' function after each 'getchar' function.

Alright, so that is that.

Cheers! :D

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Test 2

Apologies for so many tests, just making sure my line breaks in html are working for RSS feeds.

test

testing RSS html