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I know markup languages like HTML and CSS extremely well, and a tad of Javascript and PHP, but I haven't coded in ages, and withoout practising programming the knowledge gets buried. I enjoyed programming, but life has been turning out differently that it was two years ago. Not much time or need left for website coding.
Out of interest, anyone here still use Perl, or is it really outdated nowdays?
Generally true, but the Lightbox script uses a bit of python. But that doesn't exclude php from being a programming language, which it is.
HTML and CSS are generally pretty simple. Because the syntax is generally pretty different to programming or scripting languages, it's difficult to compare. I'm a very visual person and not very mathematical, which is probably why I love CSS and could never get deep into stuff like php and python.
Oh yeah. Now your making me remember a program we had to write in school. It was an elevator program and it had to simulate a 5 story building.
Think about it. To evoke the elevator, you have to have random people pushing the call button. Some will want to go up, some will want to go down. If your on the top floor, you can only go down, if your on the bottom floor, you can only go up.
You'll need:
1. Call buttons. (up and down)
2. Doors (open and close)
3. Lights and bells
4. Floors (5)
5. Random people on each floor.
6. People getting on and off the elevator from various floors.
Sounds easy, and you only need a few functions and a couple of array's (one dynamic and the other static) along with an assortment of variables. It's a great test of logic and can be streamlined easily.
Flow would go:
Create person on random floor.
Person calls elevator
Elevator arrives at floor.
Bell dings, light goes on.
Person selects floor.
Elevator proceeds to designated floor.
Elevator stops at additional floor only picking up passengers traveling in the same direction as passengers already on elevator.
Passengers by passed go into holding queue (first come first serve) when the elevator reverses flow.
Results display from the command prompt. This is a text only program cout << "Down button pressed by user x on floor x";
cout << "Elevator arrives at floor x"
cout << "Bell rings and light displays floor x"
cout << "Door opens "
cout << "User enters elevator and presses floor x"
cout << "Door closes and elevator travels to floor x"
cout << "Elevator stops at floor x to pick up passenger x"
cout << "Bell rings and light displays floor x"
You get the idea.
Sounds easy enough huh?
High School? ha ha ha! I think we got our first Atari in High School :biglol
I went to College for Client Server Programming back in 98-99 majoring in C++ and Oracle.
BTW, you'll need a random seed generator
I'd keep it simple and just pop one person at a time. When he gets off the floor he wanted to go to, then pop another random person on a random floor going to another random floor. When you've done that, then pop two or three people at a time and really have some fun!
BTW, I didn't go into programming after college believe it or not. I asked God to put me where he wanted me and while I'm in I.T., I'm far, far away from programming. In short, if you don't use it, you'll loose it. I can still write the flow chart, but I'd have a hard time writing the program now simply because of syntax. Fortunatly, I remember the tools I needed so the syntax would come back relatively quick.
. Maybe not that advanced after all... I still have the original source code after all these years and have been meaning to go back and fix it for old time's sake.
Does matlab count? It's kinda like C++ but less structured
I know quite a bit of VHDL as well.
