I am new to the world of programming

[shorthair]

how many gigabytes


0.050 Gigabytes

My entire FPS was cmpressed down to 19 megs , Dude if you want runescape you could get away with 50 megs or less , forget gigabytes , a true Ninja Programmer will make his programs as small as possible , dont let size fool you ,

there are 20 minute video clips of high quality rendered enviroment that are only 64Kilobytes, Master compression in your code and your programs will be very fast and very efficiant , dont waste code and use it sparingly , and you will make great programs


Its a skill that needs to be learned through making programs then keeping their capabilities but decreasing there size , i oftem make a program say 100 lines long and se how small i can make them ,

Dont worry about size until you have some basic Knowledge ( no pun intended ) We can talk about things like that later ,first lets get you ready and into a language

[wtd]

Anime Freak wrote:

ok i have a question to ask...i am interested in learning one laguage at first that will be ideal for righting a program (in the long run when i am ok) that is similar to the runescape type game. what language would be best for righting a program like that and how much gigobytes of space would it require to right a program that big with that many graphix.

Many languages can work for this, and the choice depends on the toolkit you use for the graphics. Do you want to work with Microsoft's DirectX, which may give you some advantage on Windows, or do you want to use OpenGL, which will give you the ability to run on many different operating systems and hardware platforms?

Of course, at your age, and your level of knowledge, programming language syntax is not the big challenge. The challenge is understanding the concepts. Once you understand programming concepts in general, learning the syntax is the easy part.

In order to understand the concepts, you want a programming language that for the most part gets out of the way and lets you understand what's going on without a lot of extra information that has nothing to do with the important logic.

It's a trivial example, but which of the following language samples are easiest to understand?

code:

// in Java import java.lang.*; import java.io.*; public class HelloWorld {    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.out.println("Hello world");    } } // in C++ #include <iostream> int main(int argc, char **argv) {    std::cout << "Hello world" << std::endl;    return 0; } -- in Eiffel class    HELLO_WORLD creation { ANY }    make feature { ANY }    make is       do          std_output.put_string("Hello world")          std_output.put_new_line       end end -- in Ada95 with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Hello_World is begin    Put_Line("Hello world"); end Hello_World; // in C# using System; public class HelloWorld {    public static void Main(string[] args)    {       Console.WriteLine("Hello world");    } } /* in C */ #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {    puts("Hello world");    return 0; } (* in O'Caml *) print_endline "Hello world" # in Perl print "Hello world\n"; # in Python print "Hello world" # in Ruby puts "Hello world" % in Turing put "Hello world"

This is not to say any one of these languages is necessarily any better or worse for experienced programmers, but which of them makes it the easiest to understand what's going on, especially when you have just about zero programming experience?

[wtd]

shorthair wrote:

Dont worry about size until you have some basic Knowledge ( no pun intended ) We can talk about things like that later ,first lets get you ready and into a language

Do it right, then do it fast.

This goes for every program, no matter who's writing it. Premature optimization is evil.

[Anime Freak]

is anyone in the "mountain time" time zone or close to that and if so can you please give me your email address if u have msn so i can chat with u and get emediat help if you are online.

[Anime Freak]

wtd i added u to my friends list on instant messaging and it says that u are not using msn so it sent u and auto email that told u how to install it (like u need to know how lol) but my email address is buzzsaw228@hotmail.com if anyone cares

[wtd]

Could be Microsoft showing their disdain for people who use Trillian.

I'm online, and have been for some time. I'm showing you as offline as well.

Real geeks use ICQ...

[Anime Freak]

i dont like icq (actually i have never tryied it and most ppl use msn any ways).

[wtd]

Young'ens...

Back in my day ICQ was what every self-respecting geek used. That was six years ago, and it's still going strong.

[rizzix]

omg please stop.. heh... there are limits u know

[Paul]

Trillian is nice, I use it for the sake of ppl who don't use MSN though.

[the_short1]

everything is changing this year!


a new website http://www.e-messenger.net/ .. . lets u sign in and msg ppl from a website! .. unless ur school knows and has already blocked the site... ull be able to MSN during clas

[rdrake]

Or you could just use http://webmessenger.msn.com/ instead. It works with Firefox too as long as the popup blocker is turned off to let it launch.

[rizzix]

wtd wrote:

Yep. The basic form is:

code:

string.gsub(pattern) { |match| <operations> }

The matched substring in the string is replaced by the results of the operations.

if thats the case.. howz that not possible in perl?

code:

$string = "hello a world aa bar aaa baz"; $string =~ s/a/Foo/g;

[wtd]

rizzix wrote:

wtd wrote:

Yep. The basic form is:

code:

string.gsub(pattern) { |match| <operations> }

The matched substring in the string is replaced by the results of the operations.

if thats the case.. howz that not possible in perl?

code:

$string = "hello a world aa bar aaa baz"; $string =~ s/a/Foo/g;

It's possibe, but the Perl construct isn't as flexible. I'll post a more complex example later to demonstrate.

[wtd]

Take the same example, but if there's one 'a', replace it with "Foo". If there are 2, replace it with "Bar". If there are 4, replace it with "Baz", and anything else, replace it with "Wooble".

code:

raw_string = "a aa aaa aaaa aaaaa" new_string = raw_string.gsub(/(a+)/i) do |match|    case match.length       when 1 then "Foo"       when 2 then "Bar"       when 4 then "Baz"       else "Wooble"    end end