When you learned to program did you write a word processor?

[badmouse]

I don't even remember what languages is was, but we wrote word processors. Do you still do that these days?

(old person)

 

[amdskip]

No

 

[mugs]

No

 

[aidanjm]

it would be a pretty huge task to write a fully-featured word processer. altho I do remember writing code to process text input, and also to format text on screen.

 

[tfinch2]

No

 

[orakle]

Nope. I'm doing matrix algebra (using multidimensional arrays) now in my C++ course.

 

[piasabird]

I have written a minesweeper program in C++ with a random minefield in 3 different sizes. It was mostly crude and not Visual C++ but it was almost 10 years ago. I also did a program for class where we simulated a cockpit display with a kind of text based display for speed where we simulated the gear ratios for both an automatic and a manual mode which required the user to shift gears and if the RPMS got too high, the car was suppose to redline and give up. Then I added sound and made it like the car was revving up. It all easily fit on a floppy. Then I wrote another program that could take any number in any base and convert it to the equivelent in the base you wanted it to be in. Example Base 8 to base 16(Hex) or base 2 (Binary) to Base 10. These were mostly crude program writen in Boraland C++ using Text.

I program in a user interface now for a school with Database Access. It is more like a case tool. Envision Programming on Datatel, with an IBM Unidata Database.

I found Java more interesting.

 

[Apathetic]

No, but I did write pacman one semester for my operating systems class. Basically it was an experiment in writing your onw multi-threaded library and then using it in a multi-threaded application (each ghost, the score counter, key reader, etc were all seperate threads).

It was a lot of fun.

Dave

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: Apathetic
No, but I did write pacman one semester for my operating systems class. Basically it was an experiment in writing your onw multi-threaded library and then using it in a multi-threaded application (each ghost, the score counter, key reader, etc were all seperate threads).

It was a lot of fun.

Dave

for my Operating Systems class, we had to edit the MINIX kernel to implement priority based scheduling of processes.

The kernel alone used to take ~30min to compile...so to fix a simple error and see the reset, we had to wait ~30min. That really sucked

 

[DrPizza]

Nope, no word processor. Had to write a compiler (back in the late 80's.)