programming

February 6, 2024

I think that if I were a better programmer I would feel better

about myself or maybe I think it would make me feel happier.

Maybe I think I would like using computers more if I were a good programmer. But, there must be great programmers that don’t like computers, who don’t feel good about themselves, who wished that had chosen some other profession besides programming a computer.

So being a better programmer would probably not make me like computers better or feel better about myself or do much of anything except allow me to get a job as a programmer.

But, I am sure I think well if I were a better programmer I would enjoy everything more, flowers would smell better, the sun would look better, bird sounds would be more stunning.

I suppose I wanted to program in the first place to make games, and then I learned about machine learning. And I like that to.

Though I don’t think I wanted to learn how to program to make myself feel better or that it would make me feel better about myself.

And if I never become a passable programmer its not the end of the world. There are lots of things to do in the world.

I wonder if I would regret it if I never become a good programmer. Probably not. There are other things that I like better than programming.

Such as cooking, gardening, astronomy, learning about world war 2, drawing, making music.

So I don’t know what I am getting at in this post. Maybe its that I want to stop thinking that programming is a magical pill that when I get good at it my life will suddenly be so much better.

January 6, 2024January 5, 2024

I have been using the internet for a little over 19 years

And I am still not a very good programmer. I wish I would have stuce k with c and c++ back when I downloaded that cygwin c/c++ compiler instead of thinking that I had to learn every programing langue there is.

The reason I wanted to learn how to program is to is so that I could make things. using a computer. Not spend my life learning every programming language in the t world.

I hope I have learned that for me at least that I can’t learn every programming language and that the reason that I wanted to program is so that I could make programs.

I remember having to leave my computer on all night to download that cygwin c/c++ compiler. I got up and checked on its progress throughout the night. I might have only had a computer for less than a week at that point.

It was so exciting to be downloading a compiler. I have downloaded a lot of computers since then. Well it seems like it.

Some people like the new car smell. I like the new compiler smell.

December 2, 2023

I learned about KolibriOs a few days ago

I think I saw it on a post on stack overflow. I believe I was looking up assemblers that I could use online on a website.

I have not installed kolibriOs but, I hope someday I remember to try it.

I do have puppy linux on two of my computer but, I am sure that they don’t boot up as fast as this operating system would.

July 27, 2023

I think what I want to with programming

is to be able to do machine learning, ethical hacking and using python with blender. I don’t know if those things are to much to ask of myself.

But, when I think about programming and what I want to do with it those things are what I come up with.

And I also want to learn to use Pharo and finish reading the art of assembly language programming.

But, most of all I want to start and finish a programming project.

July 3, 2023

I finished watching Harvard CS50 python

and I still have not done much programming with python. Yesterday I read about data visualization and machine learning on kaggle.

So this year I have not wrote any of my own programming code. I am sure at the beginning of the year I wanted to write code. That has not happened yet. There are still about 6 months left in the year. So Who knows I could still write some code this year.

June 18, 2023

One of kim Komando’s video picks was a man who paints with excel

I had never occurred to me that a person could use excel to paint. Like the man in the video I would like to paint but, there is all the expense of the paint, brushes, canvases, then I would have to clean my brushes. So I have never painted. It seems like so much work.

Its the same thing with drawing for me. I would need to keep buying paper as I filled up sketchbooks so I don’t draw. I used to sketch everyday in a sketchbook but, I don’t want to keep buying sketchbooks. Or in my case I used plain old notebooks.

But, I do like that with paper to sketch I could use only a pencil and paper but, I don’t do it because well I don’t. Drawing with pencil and paper is fun though.

So maybe I should start drawing again.

May 30, 2023

One of the reasons I wanted to get a computer all those years ago was to learn how to program. Well its been many many years and I still can’t program.

Though I still think I want to learn how to program.

I used to want to learn 20 programming. Why I wanted to do that I am not sure. Probably so I could say that I knew 20 programming languages. Well that did not work out to well.

And every year I hope that this will be the year that I will finally learn to program. That has not happened either.

So maybe I will learn to program. Maybe I won’t. Its not the end of the world if I never learn how to program. Though I wish I were a good programmer.

May 23, 2023

I watched a video about screenless computers

To me the computer in the video is something like the starfleet insignia that the characters in startrek use as a communicator.

Before I watched the video I was not sure what the computer would look like. But, how cool would it be to have a computer like that now instead of having to use a phone. I think pretty neat.

I would rather use a computer like the one in the video than a phone or wearing glasses for a computer I can use while I am walking around.

Screenless computing looks pretty exciting to me.

January 26, 2023

This year I also hope to read Learn how to program

I have tried to read the How to design programs several times but, then for some reason stopped reading so this year I want to see if I can read the book all the way through.

Because I had fun thinking about how to come up with solutions to the exercises and learning how to use Dr. Scheme.

I believer I started with the first edition but, I am not sure how much I read of that. Then I tried to read the second edition maybe 2 times but, never finished that. I probably got to maybe example 100. I am not sure how far I got exactly.

So hopefully I will get it read this year. I will see.

January 25, 2023

High level assembly

Years ago I had read some chapters of High level assembly and wrote the code that was in the book.

I am not sure how much of the book I read or why I stopped reading the book and I am not even sure why I stopped using HLA.

Someday I want to finish that book and make a little program with HLA. I like learning about all the registers, and computer hardware.

I hope I will read the book this year but, I will see