Re: Programming

["Ben Humphrey" <benjina@mindspring.com>]

PASCAL is a great language.  That is the first language that I learned,
besides a little basic.

Pascal is practically C, at least it looks like it.  Since you know so much
about programming already,
ask your teacher if you can do independant learning.  That is what I did.
My teacher was pretty cool.  i just did C on my own.  You know TOO much to
be in a beginning PASCAL class.  If the teacher doesn't want you doing C
on your own, then tell him that no one uses PASCAL anymore (rarely is so),
and that it would better your education
to learn C/C++.  Be positive and don't act better than them, or angry.
Besides, they usually teach PASCAL as a step to get up to C.  At least in
high school and college they do.

Let me know what happens.

Ben Humphrey
benjina@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben <bcronin@Princeton.EDU>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: Programming


> I can't answer all of your questions, but here's some reactions to your
last
> e-mail.
>
> First, remember that you want to impress your teacher, but be care not to
> appear like a show-off.  You might have good intentions, but if you start
> straying too far from what you're supposed to be doing, the teacher might
> interpret it wrong.
>
> Secondly, from your e-mails to this list, why are you so eager to use
> assembly language?  Assembly language certainly is good to know and
> practice - but with modern compilers, its a waste of programming time to
> write anything in assembly other than the 1% of the code that is used most
> often.  I general using assembly when not absolutely needed (or even
> directly using registers) is considered bad programming so that's probably
> why your teacher said no asm.
>
> About 3d games, the source code to Wolfenstein, Doom II, and the "game
play"
> code (not the 3d code) is available for Quake 2.  You might also want to
try
> CrystalSpace, a freeware 3d engine.  Or you could order the DirectX CD
(like
> $10 or something?) from Microsoft - as you said you use Linux you might
not
> want this, but most employers like to see DirectX on resumes.  I would
> definitely suggest you use SOME library like Allegro or SDL rather than
> writing all the video/sound code yourself.  No point in reinventing the
> wheel since writing a game is a lot of work even with the best of
libraries.
>
> Well I hope at least some of that was helpful.
>
> Ben
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com
> [mailto:gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com]On Behalf Of Lionel
> Pinkhard
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> Subject: Programming trouble at school
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a little trouble at school. I have programmed in many language,
> including Assembler, Basic, Fortran 77, Forth, C, C++, Euphoria and a few
> others. But now, my school wants us to program in a language which I only
> have enough experience to load it onto the computer! Pascal! I have spent
> some time listening to the teacher with what he's saying, but I want to do
> more than the simple stuff he's saying, I already managed to get the basic
> structure from him, so I can already program (a bit) in it by now. I
> figured out that regs.xx is used to set a register, but what would I use
to
> call an interrupt? We must write a program using as few semicolons as
> possible, but we're not allowed to use in-line assembler (otherwise it
> would be easy, wouldn't it?). And of course, we must try to write the best
> program in class. But I can't even get it into Mode X (without using Asm,
> or even Mode 13h, now that I think of it!), can somebody tell me how to do
> this in Pascal?
>
> Also, is there somewhere I can get a tutorial on Pascal? I tried searching
> on Google, but this stupid 80486 computer keeps crashing when I use Google
> (under Windoze! with IE3!), I'm still repairing my Linux-based system, so
> sorry.
>
> Also, can somebody tell me of a 3D adventure game that is available with
> source code? I'm trying to write one, but to no success! I can't even
think
> where to start! (Except to init the mouse - I finally figured out how to
do
> this!, and set the graphics mode, and play some sound on the PC Speaker or
> Soundblaster) So any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lionel Pinkhard
>
> P.s. Does anybody know WHY Google keeps crashing my computer???
>
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