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Dancer (put your advert here) Started conversation Aug 4, 2001
Post to this conversation what you want written about you in the page.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Aug 16, 2001
Hi 
Does hobby program also count? I'm doing (or rather, did) some Pascal and rather heavy Assembly language programming...
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 16, 2001
Oh, and don't forget to sign up to the whole forum (entry).
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Aug 16, 2001
okay
Well, I wrote a whole debugger in assembly and did some err... unspeakable things with that 
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 16, 2001
*wonders off topic to what may sound like a stupid greenery questions, but asks anyway*
How come you always reply to posts so quickly, Do you refresh your main page every few minutes, or is there some mechanism I was not aware of in the year+ I'm here.
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Aug 16, 2001
well, using assembly, I hacked the BBC serv--- no, r**bish
I've got one browser window dedicated to my 'more conversations' page and reload it every now and then, that's the whole trick!
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iaoth Posted Aug 18, 2001
Signing up.
Languages: C/C++, Pascal, a bit of Assembler (80x86) and a bit of PHP
Platforms: Win9x/Me/NT/2k, DOS, Unix
Technologies: STL, Mode 13h 8)
Other: Neural networks, graph theory, sorting, searching, OOP
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Researcher PSG Posted Aug 19, 2001
Right, I have finally got around to this
Researcher PSG
Languages: C++, C [But I did it a while ago], Motorola 6800 Asssembly language, Oracle SQL and a bit of Perl
Others: Basic experience in HTML
And now I am a bit embarassed by how little my knowledge looks written down.
Oh by the way Dancer, I'll do you a deal if you put a link on this page to my project on programming, I'll put a link on my programming project page to here, what do you say?
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Researcher PSG Posted Aug 19, 2001
p.s. How about a bit of a name change to catch the eye of the idle browser, like:
The H2G2 Programmers
or
The H2G2 Programming Comunity
You know, something that gives an idea, just a thought.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 20, 2001
Took the name and took the deal
Link Will appear in my next update, which should be later today 
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 20, 2001
Updated and included the link.
BWT, what does PSG stand for?
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Researcher PSG Posted Aug 20, 2001
Well, I've put the link on my project page.
Oh and about my mysterious name, I'm afraid the answer is either a mind bendingly complex play on words, or an abreviation of my name. I hope it's the mind bendingly complex play on words as it makes me seem creative and interesting.
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Aug 21, 2001
I'm an amateur programmer, so add me to the list.
Here's what I want written about me:
Languages: C/C++, Z80 Assembly, 80586 Assembly, Basic (should I admit to this?), Fortran (a little), Perl, Python, bash, SQL
Other: read the first three chapters of The Art of Computer Programming.
bsmith
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26199 Posted Aug 23, 2001
Hallo... I'm a hobbyist programmer intending to become a professional programmer - I'm about to start a degree in computer science at Cambridge university.
Languages: BASIC, C, Delphi/Pascal
You can download a few (simple) games and other bits and pieces that I've written from my non-h2g2 home page... just follow the link on my h2g2 home page. I'll be happy to sit there looking puzzled over any programming enquiries people care to pose...
26199
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Aug 24, 2001
Right it's my turn, please don't laugh at my inexperance I am 16!
Programming Languages: Visual Basic, Basic, 80486 Assembly, Pascal
Platforms: Dos 3 to 6.22, Windows 3.11, Windows 32 ALL!, Linux (little bit)
Technologies: (What?) but I love Int 10h
Other: Icons, Graphics, Engenering, Databases, Object Theory, HTML, RTF Help Formatting (JIC), (Making windows32 do unspeakable things on low end PC's)
-- DoctorMO --
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Aug 25, 2001
Hi DoctorMO,
Actually we all (I guess) started with these things and this is the way to be a great programmer, by starting with DOS programming and Assembly.
If and when you would like to go on to other things like C/C++ and Java programming, I can give you addresses of online books. Actually I think I'll just add these URLs to the page as soon as I get the chance to.
Welcome to the Programmer's corner, Do make yourself at home here
Dancer
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 27, 2001
Peet reporting for duty... 
I used to be pretty slick with assembler (6502, 6809, Z80 and 68000), I did a little Forth for fun(!) and for a while I actually programmed BASIC for a living! (3 months working for a German company in London, earning £400 per week in 1987!) I managed to debug a friend's university coursework in Pascal for him, with only 3 days to teach myself Pascal by playing with Delphi. (He'd been attending lectures on the subject for six months, and didn't have a clue. This says as much about the use of lectures in teaching programming as it does about his aptitude.) I have a little commercial experience in Javascript, and do a few things that non-programmers consider to be "programming" such as HTML and Macros in MS Office.
My "great unwritten coding project" of the moment involves porting an implementation of Forth I compiled for the Atari ST back around 1990 onto a Palm Pilot... 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Aug 27, 2001
Oops - too much information! I missed the first posting when I was signing up.
Name: Peet
Languages: Assembler (various), Forth, BASIC, a little Pascal
Other: HTML, Javascript
Platforms: BBC Micro, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, IBM PC (DOS, Windows and Linux), Apple Mac, Palm Pilot
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- 1: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 4, 2001)
- 2: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Aug 16, 2001)
- 3: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 16, 2001)
- 4: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 16, 2001)
- 5: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 16, 2001)
- 6: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Aug 16, 2001)
- 7: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 16, 2001)
- 8: Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese (Aug 16, 2001)
- 9: iaoth (Aug 18, 2001)
- 10: Researcher PSG (Aug 19, 2001)
- 11: Researcher PSG (Aug 19, 2001)
- 12: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 20, 2001)
- 13: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 20, 2001)
- 14: Researcher PSG (Aug 20, 2001)
- 15: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Aug 21, 2001)
- 16: 26199 (Aug 23, 2001)
- 17: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Aug 24, 2001)
- 18: Dancer (put your advert here) (Aug 25, 2001)
- 19: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Aug 27, 2001)
- 20: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Aug 27, 2001)
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