Coding...

[insouciant]

I've recently been learning the basics of HTML and CSS...

Viewing the source code for pages on this forum has just utterly terrified me.

 

[RWright]

a lot going on just to put "hello world" in here isn't there?

 

[Alex H]

It's probably built with a helpful 'tool' which puts in lots of bits of code that you wouldn't even think about (or even need)

 

[vernon]

I've recently been learning the basics of HTML and CSS...

Viewing the source code for pages on this forum has just utterly terrified me.

I'd not worry about that. This site is not a hand crafted site but is database driven. The HTML and CSS is templated and the contents pulled from a database driven by a server side scripting language like PHP. The forum software does most of the hard work for you.

 

[TVC]

I'd not worry about that. This site is not a hand crafted site but is database driven. The HTML and CSS is templated and the contents pulled from a database driven by a server side scripting language like PHP. The forum software does most of the hard work for you.

I thought it was all run by monkeys

 

[ColinJ]

It's probably built with a helpful 'tool' which puts in lots of bits of code that you wouldn't even think about (or even need)

Put it this way ... Shaun certainly isn't sitting in front of his computer waiting to add our posts manually as we send them to him!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Put it this way ... Shaun certainly isn't sitting in front of his computer waiting to add our posts manually as we send them to him!

I dont know youngsters today never had ti so easy ................. IN MY DAY

 

[vernon]

I dont know youngsters today never had ti so easy ................. IN MY DAY

In my day we used to type

COPY CON > A:/PROGRAM.EXE

then type native machine code for 8088 CPUs followed by typing CTRL C at the end

The program would then run perfectly first time on typing PROGRAM and pressing enter.

How I miss coding......

 

[Dan B]

In my day we used to type

COPY CON > A:/PROGRAM.EXE

then type native machine code for 8088 CPUs followed by typing CTRL C at the end

The program would then run perfectly first time on typing PROGRAM and pressing enter.

That's very impressive considering that Ctrl c would have cancelled the copy operation. I'd have used Ctrl z ;-)

 

[vernon]

That's very impressive considering that Ctrl c would have cancelled the copy operation. I'd have used Ctrl z ;-)

Brain fart.....

Can't remember when I last played with CP/M MS DOS or DR DOS.

I'm waiting to see what the Raspberry Pi delivers for school kid coders...

 

[phil_hg_uk]

In my day we used to type

COPY CON > A:/PROGRAM.EXE

then type native machine code for 8088 CPUs followed by typing CTRL C at the end

The program would then run perfectly first time on typing PROGRAM and pressing enter.

How I miss coding......

In my day we used to program the Apple ][ directly into the machines memory in machine code and hope it didnt crash before we could get it working right and save the memory block to floppy, and I still have an Apple ][e in the loft.

I do miss 6502 machine code ahhhhh happy days

 

[ColinJ]

45 years ago, I wrote an Algol program to add up the integers from 1 to 100. I spent hours entering them onto punched cards which then had to be collected into a bundle held together by an elastic band and delivered to the computer centre at Warwick university. Some time later they ran the program. It took about a month to go through that cycle enough times to sort out all the syntax errors and bugs.

Fortunately, things have moved on since then!

 

[Crackle]

I thought it was all run by monkeys

We just add the content

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's all geek to me!

 

[vernon]

In my day we used to program the Apple ][ directly into the machines memory in machine code and hope it didnt crash before we could get it working right and save the memory block to floppy, and I still have an Apple ][e in the loft.

I do miss 6502 machine code ahhhhh happy days

Only 256 instructions to play with. Deep joy!

I still marvel at how Elite was squeezed into 16k of memory for the BBC computer - a masterpiece of 6502 programming.