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klosters64a
12-01-01, 06:05 PM
Let's say that programming and software(beyond installing and removing it) in general are incomprehensible to Ms, Mrs or Mr X.

OK, me. Where the heck would one start on a quest to unravel the black hole that is software? Thanks!
JigPu
12-01-01, 10:16 PM
First thing that popped into my head: definition. So, here it is out of my old American Heratage Dictionary...

Programming 1. To include or schedule in a program. 2. To design or schedule programs. 3. To provide (a computer) with a set of instructions for soving a problem.

Then, I'd explain what that means. eg:

Programming is writing a list of instructions for the computer to do. When these instructions are done in order, useful work is (usually :D) done.

Hope it helps out some....
JigPu
XprincoX
12-02-01, 04:48 PM
maybe hit the books at the library or bookstore? :D
Garfield
12-07-01, 08:12 PM
Get a couple of books, learn a couple of languages. Then it all unravels.
Vovan
12-19-01, 03:03 AM
Yeah, and DO NOT TRY to get on ASSEMBLER as first. Look for a Pascal or Basic (Delphi and Visual BAsic in Word) to get the idea.
Than eat some ANSI C, or C++, then asm. ASM is simple great tool but hard to lern too.

I´ve lerned it in 7passes or so.
Vovan
12-19-01, 03:08 AM
Originally posted by JigPu
First thing that popped into my head: definition. So, here it is out of my old American Heratage Dictionary...

Programming 1. To include or schedule in a program. 2. To design or schedule programs. 3. To provide (a computer) with a set of instructions for soving a problem.

Then, I'd explain what that means. eg:

Programming is writing a list of instructions for the computer to do. When these instructions are done in order, useful work is (usually :D) done.

Hope it helps out some....
JigPu

Hey, thats not a programming - it is actually reprogramming the code . (Too old book with the knowledge of BASIC ,perhaps). When we program, we controll the input and output of the devices and other Computer COMPONENTS, their resources in a way that create a solution.:mad:
eobard
12-19-01, 03:16 AM
For myself, when I was in school they taught Commodore BASIC for the C64 and PETs. Several years later, using that knowledge as a foundation and only one book, that broke down each possible command, I taught myself QuickBASIC. If you have any computer knowledge, no matter how obsolete it is by today's standards, you might want to start from there as a reference point and expand out from there instead of just jumping in head first and hoping you can swim. It may take more time to learn your way up to something useful but the whole journey may be an easier one.

Hope it helps. :)