Pascal Programming Langauge

Today I will write about the pascal programming language. I don't remember when I learned about pascal or why I wanted to try pascal. I think I found free pascal by typing pascal into a search engine to see if I could find a compiler for pascal that is free. So I went to the site and download pascal and tried a pascal tutorial from another site.

I think I say this to much, but I do like programming in pascal. what do I like about pascal, I not sure. I suppose I liked it because it was a new programming language for me to learn. well OK, I have not learned much pascal, but I want to learn more.

D Programming language

Today I will write about the D programming language. I don't remember when I fist heard about the d programming language. I don't know much about d, but it is a programming language I would like to learn more about.

I downloaded the d compiler, but could not get it installed. So I gave up on learnig to programming in d. Sometime later I did figure out how to install the d compiler and tried a few examples. I don't know what else to say about d other than I hope I learn more about d.

Logo programming langauge

Logo is another programming language I first read about in the book Dealers of lightning. I did not think logo would still be around. I thought no one could be using that language anymore, but on a site that lists free computer books on the Internet I found some books on logo. That is how I found Berkeley logo. So I downloaded Berkeley logo which can be used with the books. I don't think Berkeley logo is a big download only about 5MB which I liked.

I think logo is one of the coolest languages to programme in. Although I have not used Berkeley logo much, I had a blast using logo it was great. I don't think I have had so much fun using any other programming language except squeak and hla.

One of the things I thought was so great about logo is the turtle that you can make move around on the screen. At least that is what I think I can do with that turtle. I will have to try logo and figure out more about that turtle. I also thought that the editor that comes with logo is neat. It seems sort of similar to V.I.

The five things I like about forth

1. name - What is it about the name forth that intrigues me. It could be that its name is also a number and the name of a programming language. That's all I can think of.
   



2. size - As I said in the previous post I did use win32forth a little bit. Maybe I downloaded win32forth as a zip file, but for its size it seems to have a lot of tools. I like small downloads a lot so that made me like forth.
   



3. GUI - Using win32forth I can create GUIs which is a big deal to me. At one time I only wanted to try a programming language that you could create GUIs with. I suppose any programming Language can create graphical user interfaces so maybe I should say make GUIs easily.
   



4. challenge - One of the things I thought when I fist looked at forth source code was it seemed so different than java or c/c++ I thought to my self I don't think I will be able to read forth. Maybe with some practice I will be able to read forth, hopefully.
   



5. obscure - I have not heard that much about the forth programming language. I suppose I want to learn forth eventually to see if I am missing anything. I guess not hearing much about forth makes it mysterious. Will I like forth even thought it is not one of the more well known programming language.

Forth programming language

I first heard about forth while reading sams teach yourself java or javascript. I can't member which book. The book had a link to a website about forth. There might have been a free forth compiler on the website, but I didn't find one. I did download a book and was excited to learn more about forth. But I never read the book because I thought I could not get a free forth compiler so I could try some code.

Probably a few months later I found a site that had a whole bunch of free compilers for many different programming languages. I was excited to discover that the site had a few free forth compilers. I chose two compilers bigforth, and win32Forth and downloaded them. I have only tried using win32Forth. I think the reason I have only tried that compiler is because I cold get the documentation.

Math

Math I wish I knew more math. I read a beginning book on programming that said you can be a good programmer and not know any on much math. That probably is true, but I want to use the math functions or classes in programming languages.

So I have tried to read a book on algebra that I found on the Internet. I have read the first chapter, but have not finished the book. Math looks like something I can do so hopefully I will get better at math. I used to be intimidated by math but like I said I think I can do it.

Assembly continued

I chose assembly language as the programming language I wanted to learn because it seemed that if I could learn assembly language I could lean any programming language. Also I thought it would be fun also to lean about the registers and machine instructions and more about the inner workings of a computer. I am not only interested in software, but I enjoy learning about hardware. Using registers and machine instruction has turned out to be fun.

The reason I chose HLA was because of the art of assembly language book. The art of assembly language has lots of information on hardware and assembly language. I could also get a IDE for hla, I have downloaded the IDE, but have not used it much.

Assembly langauge

I can not remember when I first learned about assembly language. I want to learn hla, but that is not the only assembler I have downloaded, I also have flat assembler ,MASM32 ,easy code , winAsm studio installed on my computer. I have all of those assemblers on my computer, but have mostly used HLA, and only used the others a little bit. All the compilers or IDEs look like they would be fun to use, but I don't have enough time to practice using all of them.

REBOL again

I want to write more about rebol today. After I downloaded rebol I followed a tutorial on rebol.I think I kept doing the tutorial for maybe a week, but I never finished the tutorial. Then I think I started using rebol again and this time I tried following a tutorial on the rebol site. I don't think I finished that tutorial either.

That is a habit with me I get excited about a programming language and then I go on to a different programming language and never become any good at any language I try, because I try and focus on all the programming languages at once. Thought I think I am doing better with learning how to program.

I only want to learn only one programming language right now and hopefully I can stick to it, because it would be nice to be able to write a small program that would do something useful. I was not sure which language to pick so I picked the one I wanted to learn the most and that was assembly language programming.

REBOL pramming language

I do not remember exactly when I found out about the REBOL programming language it may have been more than a year ago. One of the things that surprised me when I found REBOL is the download size. The 1MB or less download size is super small compared to the other programming languages I have tried. The watcom c/c++ compiler is 60MB, java is 60MB plus 40MB for netbeans, perl, php, python, and squeak are all about a 15 MB download, VB.net is I think hundreds of MB, ruby about 20MB, HLA 1 to 2 MB. I didn't know then and I don't know now how they make it such a small download, but it is one of the things that makes REBOL seem so awesome. I wish all programming languages were a 1 MB or less download like REBOL. REBOL

More squeak

I want to learn squeak because it seems so different from other programming languages. I have read a little of the book squeak by example, but I need to finish reading the book so I can use squeak. I also like to look at the weekly squeak a blog about squeak. I have not looked at the weekly squeak recently, but I hope to start reading it again because I think it is great. One of my favorite things to to with squeak is to make the computer speak which can be done easily with one line of code. I don't think making the computer say something is that easy in other programming languages.

small talk programming langauge

For the next few posts I want to talk about some of the programming languages I have tried. The first one I want to talk about is smalltalk. I first heard about smalltalk while reading Dealers of lightning by: michael Hiltzik which is a book about Xerox's parc in its first years. The book did not talk much about smalltalk, but what it said had me curious about smalltalk. The language was created in 1971 and I had not heard of it before so I thought it was dead. So I did an Internet search and found squeak which is smalltalk. I was surprised that smalltalk was still around.

My goal

Today I will write about my goal for this blog. I want to write a paragraph every day. I want that paragraph to be about something interesting like t.v., movies, computers or anything I can think of to write. I do not want to write I checked my email. I need to think about what I am going to write so I can have something interesting to say. When I have tried to blog before I have not thought about what to post. Before I would only sit down at the computer I would not think about my blog at any other time. Also with my previous blogs I only blogged for a week or or two and then give up. Hopefully this time will be different then my previous attempts at blogging.

Open watcom C/C++ compiler

The C/C++ compiler that I use now is open watcom. I like it because it is free and it is and IDE, plus it is only a 60MB download so it does not take all day on a 56k modem. I am not good at using it yet, but I hope to get better with practice I have been looking at the documentation the past few days. Well only a little of the documentation. I also need to learn c and c++ programming languages so I can have some fun with open watcom. I leaned how to find and install the open watcom compiler at about.com : c/c++/C#. open watcom