My first “3d” project was in about 1989 - a spinning globe on a PC, programmed in Turbo Pascal. I typed in hundreds of longitude, lattitude pairs of costal cities with one hand - because my right arm was broken. That sucked. =)
I don’t remember when I started programming, but it was 14 to 16 years ago. I programmed in atari basic and 6502 assembly language until I got to college 8 years ago and had access to a computer made after 1980. Then I learned C and C++. I started OpenGL programming sometime around then, and DirectX programming when DX3 came out. I learned Java in grad school but never used it since. Most of my coding is in C or C++ in roughly equal measure, though I still do the occasional bit of x86 assembly.
Er, I forgot to say how long I’d been using OpenGL. I think it’s going on 3 years now.
I started in C++ so I actually don’t know some of the finer details of C…or should I say, restrictions of C. All I’ve had for learning resources were books.
Wooow…
U guys have to be VERY good… but I noticed that you never wrote if you had worked somewhere!..
however… I know(almost goog ) :
scriptprogramming -> PHP 2-3 months and I already starting to make money on it!.. )
other-> I started with Turbo Pascal when the schools started… in august till now… makes 5-months… and I really like pascal because it is a fun language and simple… I’ve started with c++ 1 week ago … but I am learning fast reading “Accelerated c++”.
And I will start to learn openGL as soon as I know c++ because I will do a 3D-engine for my schoolproject(I have almost 2 years from now on to learn both c++ and openGL and everything else to do a 3D-engine)
hehe…
//DENIZ
>>u have 20 years experience??? Blows my mind. Must have been terrible not having real hardware around.<<
the hardware wasnt the problem.
the total lack of documentation was (unlike now with the internet where literally more than u want is at your fingertips)
i didnt even have an assembler when i started but had to type in numbers like
“23,34,A9,C9”
truly was painful (even cobol was an improvement), i shudder when i look at it now i expect when youre young youre willing to put up with that crap.
then again i remeber teachers saying i had it easy. in their day, u entered the data on punchcards + itll compile overnight (only to come up with syntax error!) fun
Originally posted by zed:
then again i remeber teachers saying i had it easy. in their day, u entered the data on punchcards + itll compile overnight (only to come up with syntax error!) fun
Zed, now you’re making me feel REALLY old.
Yes, I do remember the overnight syntax errors in the various Algol programs I had to punch… Or that I flunked the mandatory “Programming I” course that I had to take ('78). Or the fun that I had with
using a PDP8 for analyzing electrophysical signals. Ah, those were the days.