h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I was in the 4th yr of secondary school (whatever that is in modern money - Pingu?) I was head librarian (great place to hang out at lunch as no one ever went in there! Certainly not the 'cool' kids ) they revamped it with a load of PCWs much to my delight as it meant I could use some of my home CP/M stuff one the school computers.

I also seem to recall we might have modified the entries for some books and placed (in)appropriate ID numbers for some books.

Pingu:

Easy intro languages. BASIC is still one of the best. Although I guess these days it'd be Visual Basic (VB) which is an MS language.
There's various tutorials on the web.

You could also try the scripting languages. Something like Python or PERL would be good especially as they are current. Again, you can find on line howtos on t'web.

I'll have a hunt around when I get a moment.

you lurking me TRiG?

Lurking is what I do. But what brings me here is that I'm subscribed to Pingu's journal.

php is a nice little programming language designed for the Web, but I believe it can also be used for desktop software. A bit of php and a little javascript are the only computer languages I know. They're very useful, though.

TRiG.

ah, I see!

Yeah, php is ok but it is fairly specific in its intent and links to hypertext though.

OTOH you get to wear the 'PHP kicks ASP' t-shirt if you so want

Yeah the quick google i did on the internet threw up Perl as well. I shall be googling them to find tutorials. Thanks.

How are you TRiG?

btw 4th year would be year .

Year 10 seeing as I didn't put it in the post above. Is that the 2legs filter, or the Lil filter?

From what little I know of ASP, that statement is true enough.

TRiG.

Who gave me *added filters*?

lil xx

Ah well, you know what they say, good things come to those who wait.

We could always remove them if you like

wotsit-without its -cappi?

Just kidding One extra special filtered with all the cappi gooness left in : coming up_________________________<wotsit>

Thank you, Lofty

your welcome Lil--no goons -just frothy goodness.

(bit of loftitis there
)

Cool, I've just noticed that TRiG changed the subject line. Aren't i quick!

I have finished reading Dracula, very scary book, even scarier when you listen to Moonspell

Was it worth all the effort-friend Pingu?

Certainly was, I would never read it late at night though.

Hey you make sure you advertize the 9th December-its a whole yerar away nearly so people need reminding.

I shall. Weird i can learn to drive then!