Pete's QBASIC Site

Programmers

2006-02-19T18:28:06-05:00

Not for a living... I'm working with homeless ppl... and I use programming to reduce stress (doesn't really work all the time).
I started programming in the early 90's...

grtz

What kind of work with them?

Statistics: Posted by bungytheworm — Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:28 pm

Programmers

2006-02-14T05:29:20-05:00

Not for a living... I'm working with homeless ppl... and I use programming to reduce stress (doesn't really work all the time).
I started programming in the early 90's...

grtz

Statistics: Posted by Seb McClouth — Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:29 am

Programmers

2006-02-13T08:43:37-05:00

No i dont.
Programming is a great hobby but doing it for living...not for me.

I have earned something small...like fwe hours salary or one holiday when i have done something small for our company but thats top "pro" level im interested to code.

Statistics: Posted by lurah- — Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:43 am

Programmers

2006-02-12T23:16:41-05:00

work for some game company somewhere, rise up in the ladder... then break off and start my own company.

Good luck. I hope you're prepared for the competition. It's a true nightmare. Not to mention that most of the larger companies require you to sign a contract of some sort essentially forcing you to agree not to open a similar company for some specified amount of time (5 years seems to be the standard).

I do game programming myself but only in my spare time as of now. For the time being I'm writting software for a mining equipment export company based in New Jersey. It's not flashy like game programming but certainly creates a challenge.

BTW, just in case anyone is interested, the current project I'm working on (in terms of game programming) is called Outpost 3:

http://genesis.outpost-universe.net

Statistics: Posted by leeor_net — Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:16 pm

Programmers

2006-02-12T22:53:24-05:00

Started programming at 9? Whoa! Me too!

Same here! I still have a 3.5inch floppy disk full of old QB programs I wrote at that age. Ah, the memories... (of spaghetti code *shudder)

BTW I don't program for a living, but I'm planning to when I get out of college. I'm planning to go work for some game company somewhere, rise up in the ladder... then break off and start my own company.

Statistics: Posted by thegrogen — Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:53 pm

Programmers

2006-02-12T14:19:51-05:00

BASIC wouldn't be the language most modern day programmers would use for huge corporate-size programs. C++, JAVA, Python, PERL, etc. would all be better languages for these types of projects.

That all depends on what the program is needed for. While I would never use BASIC in a dos box ever again (e.g., QuickBASIC), Visual Basic is great for DB/XML programs that need very rapid development.

I use C/C++ for all of my high-performance applications as well as DLL libraries that I can then use within Visual Basic. I use VB whenever I want to write a program that works with the Windows GUI (coding Win32 GUI stuff in C/C++ is a nightmare)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I write software professionally.

Statistics: Posted by leeor_net — Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:19 pm

Programmers

2006-01-16T01:52:22-05:00

It's purely a hobby. Maybe someday if I'm better at it and have no other work. But for now I don't want to ruin my fun by making it work.

Statistics: Posted by Hrothgar — Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:52 am

Programmers

2006-01-15T08:18:24-05:00

Started programming ANSI C via the command line at 9 btw...

matt

Statistics: Posted by matt2jones — Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:18 am

Programmers

2006-01-11T15:03:42-05:00

Started programming at 9? Whoa! Me too!

Statistics: Posted by {Nathan} — Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:03 pm

Programmers

2006-01-11T13:26:02-05:00

I do not, but intend to, and can't really see myself working as anything else. I'm in college at the moment studying ~programming, and my weekly income comes from the programming competitions held here, with cash prizes for the winners (me and my friend have been coding since... me, 12 and him, 9)... So we win every week... It's not much, but it gets me by...

matt

Statistics: Posted by matt2jones — Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:26 pm

For a Living...

2006-01-09T12:19:18-05:00

From about 1976 until 1995 I worked for a couple of different civil engineering firms. Part of my time was spent on software for civil engineers and surveyors, modifying existing, and writing new programs. My "pride and joy" is a coordinate geometry package for surveyors written entirely in QuickBASIC v3.0 consisting of about 2000 lines of source in 4 modules. The whole thing ended up in one .EXE file with a separate text "help" file that the program could access. You could define or compute up to about 8000 3-D points with x- and y- coordinates in double precision and elevations in single, plus point descriptions. Then you can do distance, angle, and intersection comps from there. I know they're still using it, too.

Statistics: Posted by Zim — Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Programmers

2006-01-06T19:55:51-05:00

I've been programming for a living since 1961.

Recently, until early 2003, I spent 7 years at McGraw-Hill programming an ERP system in PickBasic which is very similar to QB except for I/O commands that access a multivalued database.

Later I spent 1.5 years as a consultant at a subsidiary of Citigroup, where I was involved in more administrative IT functions. However, I did a considerable amount of QB programming on my own to solve problems that could only be done by program, in my opinion. The IT department had 62 people, none of which knew how to program. The actual programming was outsourced. They were amazed at the things that I could do with a little QB program.

My contract expired several months ago, and I'm now looking for another job.
*****Moneo*****

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:55 pm

Programmers

2006-01-06T15:55:55-05:00

When I am actually making a living I do, yes.

I have used COBOL, VB, C++ and Java at various times. The languages I use at home don't always have much to do with what I use at work. My last few home projects have used FB, Assembly and GameMaker.

Statistics: Posted by PlayerOne — Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:55 pm

Programmers

2006-01-05T03:47:25-05:00

really...in freebasic
can't log in again

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:47 am

Programmers

2006-01-04T15:58:27-05:00

I do.. in FreeBASIC..

Statistics: Posted by Z!re — Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:58 pm