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    From papabill@1:123/22 to All on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 09:45:39
    This would be a GREAT place to start 'dummy level' lessons on writing Pascal. I know I'd be a suitable learner-I'm dumb as a rock about programming.

    Anyone up to the challenge?

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to papabill on Friday, December 25, 2009 20:37:53
    This would be a GREAT place to start 'dummy level' lessons on
    writing Pascal. I know I'd be a suitable learner-I'm dumb as a rock
    about programming.

    one thing to do would be to choose a starter application to write and then build on it and the principles it uses... address books are generally one of the first starter apps ;)

    Anyone up to the challenge?

    :)

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  • From Gary Perkins@1:393/31 to All on Sunday, May 01, 2011 14:39:00
    Just curious if anyone out there is willing to help a guy get back into programming Pascal... :)


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Gary Perkins on Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:47:02

    Just curious if anyone out there is willing to help a guy get back
    into programming Pascal... :)

    what kind of help?

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  • From Gary Perkins@1:393/31 to mark lewis on Thursday, May 05, 2011 21:39:41
    Re: Lessons
    By: mark lewis to Gary Perkins on Thu May 05 2011 12:47 pm

    Just curious if anyone out there is willing to help a guy get back
    into programming Pascal... :)

    what kind of help?

    I dunno, be cool if anyone had a lesson plan, and assignments and stuff. I'm easily distracted; I learn best when I have someone/something to follow along with.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Gary Perkins on Friday, May 06, 2011 15:21:12


    Just curious if anyone out there is willing to help a guy get back
    into programming Pascal... :)

    what kind of help?

    I dunno, be cool if anyone had a lesson plan, and assignments and
    stuff.

    i don't have anything like that... what we used to do, waaaaaay back in the day, was to choose a small project and work on that... possibly just routines that could be used in projects and then, in some cases, individual projects were slightly modified for use in larger projects...

    I'm easily distracted; I learn best when I have someone/something
    to follow along with.

    i know that feeling... i have to have a need for something before i can code anything ;)

    so... what pascal compiler are you using or wanting to use? are you looking to target only one platform or multiple platforms? console text mode stuff only or
    GUI stuff or both?

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  • From Gary Perkins@1:393/31 to mark lewis on Friday, May 06, 2011 19:05:27
    Re: Lessons
    By: mark lewis to Gary Perkins on Fri May 06 2011 03:21 pm

    i don't have anything like that... what we used to do, waaaaaay back in the day, was to choose a small project and work on that... possibly just routine that could be used in projects and then, in some cases, individual projects were slightly modified for use in larger projects...

    Understandable. I was actually surprised to get a reply here!

    I'm easily distracted; I learn best when I have someone/something
    to follow along with.

    i know that feeling... i have to have a need for something before i can code anything ;)

    Yep... I remember in high school when I was presented with a project and had
    a clear goal in mind, I was pretty good at preparing the algorythm and
    fleshing out the code. Nowadays, I'm like...Ok...I *really* need to get back into programming...I start reading books and online materials, but by the
    time I'm halfway into the books, I haven't practiced much in between the beginning and middle, and I get lost. Those 24hr/48hr/30day books suck, there's a reason schools spend months teaching these languages...lol

    So far, I've tried C, Java, and Basic .NET. I've already decided I do NOT
    want to start in Windows; the IDE's I've tried *suck* for the beginner.

    so... what pascal compiler are you using or wanting to use? are you looking target only one platform or multiple platforms? console text mode stuff only GUI stuff or both?

    FreePascal seems like a good choice. It's current, and of course, free.
    Since I don't want to start out in Windows, Linux console seems like a good choice. I could maybe start with some BBS doors... after writing one or two
    on Linux, I could try porting them with a doorkit to work on Windows bulletin boards. Once I get the coding down, I could start playing around with
    Windows after that.

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