Some tutorials I want to try

Today hacker news had a link to a haskell tutorial I want to do. I took a look at the tutorial and now I am excited about learning some haskell. I have ghc installed on my computer so why not work thought the tutorial.

A few days ago hacker news had a link to a clojure tutorial that I want to work though since I have clojure installed on my computer. I have not written any clojure since I wrote a hello world program to make sure that I installed the clojure compiler correctly.

Bring on the programming tutorials.

Nothing interesting to write about today

I don't have to much to write about today. I think I am getting better at html, css, and javascript. Now I remember how to make tables and frames without having to look it up. I also remember a lot more css than I used to. when I write JavaScript now I can even remember how to declare a function and return a value. Practicing every day seems to have helped me a lot. I still have not made anything interesting though.

Come back here tomorrow for another exciting post.

An unexciting post about javascipt

I don't know what to write about today, but I'll start writing anyway. Today I practiced writing javascript. I think if I get good enough at programming in javascript I want to write small games for my website using a javascript framework.

I also want to make pop up windows and validate forms using javascript. I have made a pop up window, but I have never validated a form using javascript. In short I want to learn javascript and remember what I learned.

I want to write fiction

Yesterday I was thinking about either writing fiction on this blog or starting a new blog where I only write fiction. I have never written fiction before so it probably would be horrible, but no one will read it anyway so why not do it. I think I'll do it.

I've had two sweepstakes wins in two days

Last night I won a $10 gift card from the century 21 path to your dreams instant win game. The congratulations screen said I would get an email, but I have not received one yet. My fist instant win since February 10, Yay!!!

Then today I got an email saying I won The other end of the line on DVD. I can't wait to watch the movie. Yay!! I hope the wins keep coming.

I installed BLR-CAD on my computer

A day or two ago I say a link to a program called BRL-CAD on hacker news. I thought wow a free CAD program, yes now I can use a CAD program. I have no idea what I want to use the program for. I am not even sure what I can make with a CAD program. But I can't resist a free program.

I hope someday I will get around to making at lest on thing with BRL-CAD.

Today a short post about three favorite movies

Today I'll write a little bit about about three of my favorite movies back to the future 1, 2 and 3. I need something to post so I am writing about back to the future.

I loved the Delorean in the back to the future movies. The flying Delorean in back to the future 2 was awsome. The idea of having a vehicle that drives on land and flies in the air is amazing. I'd be like james bond.

Another thing that I liked about the back to the future movies was the time travel. The idea of being able to time travel is fascinating to me. I am not sure where I would want to travel to if time travel were real, maybe to ancient rome, or palo alto research center in the 1970's.

That's something I never thought of doing if I could time travel I could go to great moments in computer history or travel back in time to meet some famous person involved with computers. One person I would want to travel back in time to meet is John Von Newman. To bad I can't travel back in time.

babbling on about making a website

I want to put up a website now more then I ever have in the past even though I still have no idea what type of website I want to create other than to make a personal website, or a blog. I suppose putting up those kinds of websites would be fine, but I already have a blog and my personal life is not that interesting. So I hope I can come up with some different ideas. If I can learn how to design programs and learn some php maybe I can make an interesting site, I don't now.

A few posts ago I wrote about not caring about any of the goals I wrote down. Well I still want to learn xhtml, css, javascript, php, python, blender, gimp, xml, so I can put up a website and make some animations. Maybe I was to hasty in saying I did not care about the goals I set for myself. I'll be back here writing tomorrow.

I got the dvd I won on march 31

Today I received the Out at the wedding DVD I won on march 31. Yes!! I can't think of anything else to write so I'm done for today.

Some day I want to make music

Today I installed LMMS -Linux MultiMedia Studio a program I read about on about.com Linux on my computer. When I first read about LMMS on about.com Linux I thought wow I can use the program to make music for blender animations. I know there are websites where I can get sounds for animations, but I want to make some of my own sounds. Creating sounds for a website would be great also.

I don't know if I will ever be able to make anything with LIMMS, but I will try.

Continued from yesterday

Continuing from yesterday when I talked about the excitement of installing a new compiler on my computer. A few weeks ago I went to the open directory website and found a link to a PDF called Lua - First steps in programming. I had a blast doing the examples in the PDF, it felt great. I love try out new programming languages.

Also with lua I want to make a game using Love which I got from hacker news. I'm writing this paragraph to remind myself.

Continuing from the first paragraph maybe instead of limiting myself I should just try whatever programming languages I want to. I like that idea. Maybe I will be able to make a useful program maybe I won't, but as long as I have fun it does not mater.

More sensless talk

Continuing from yesterday when I talked about trying a bunch of programming languages and not mastering any of them. One reason I do that is because I read about other people who know a couple of languages and think I should know a bunch of them also.

Another reason is, to me experimenting with new languages is fun. There is nothing like the feeling I get when I write my first hello world program in a language I have never used before, but I get frustrated that I don't know any language that well. I need to realize it's OK if I am not fluent in ten or more programming languages. I can't learn every programming language I want to, darn. That all for today see you tomorrow.

Not much to write today

As I have said on this blog before I want to become a programmer who makes a program that does something useful. One reason I have not achieved this goal is that I keep trying a bunch of different programming languages and not mastering any of them.

I think if I had stuck to one programming language and learned it instead of trying a bunch of different languages I might be able to make a small program by now. Instead I keep switching programming languages, So all I end up doing is learning a little bit about each language and not mastering it.

So I want to try and stick to one or two programming languages and learn them. I can always switch later if I don't like the languages I pick.

I am closing my poll - how many sweepstakes do you

I am closing my poll - How many sweepstakes do you enter daily? Before I get to the results I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming response, three votes. That's three more votes then I thought the poll would ever get. Now on to the results:

I don't enter sweepstakes got two votes, zero to one hundred got no votes, one hundred to two hundred also got no votes, two hundred to three hundred got one vote, three hundred fifty to four hundred got no votes, and four hundred plus got no votes.

Thanks for voting.