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[JessAlba452]

Hey all! I'm new to this site and found it on Google while looking for a good programming forum to join. This community caught my attention, since it is organized very well :thumbup:

A little bit of information about myself. I am a female computer and car geek and just getting into computer programming. This will be my first time ever computer programming! So excited :P In the past I've modified computer cases and overclocked hardware CPU/GPU/RAM and things of that sort.

Spent some time at the local book store and purchased a few programming books. I've noticed it's not quite something you can pick up overnight and have elaborate programs done the next day. Many people that I've met along the way have been doing this for a long time and I feel like I may be jumping on the ship too late lol. Yet, hopefully it's never too late to start learning. :)

I've dabbled a little in Visual C#, but have just switched course and instead coding in XCode. In turn I hope to start developing Apple iPhone applications very soon!

Can't wait to move on from the "Hello World!" tutorials and start creating my own programs. :w00t:

See everyone in the forums and I hope to learn a LOT here!

[Alexander]

Welcome, glad we could have you!

You seem to have a fire in your attitude, I like it. It could be quite fun developing for the iPhone, there are just so many fun apps to play with![noparse]:-)[/noparse]

What got you interested in programming?

[JessAlba452]

Nullw0rm- Thank you very much for the welcome!

I've kind of always been interested in programming since around 2003. It kind of wow'ed me that you could make a program of your own run in a computer/OS. At that time I think I saw a program coded using C++ and Borland? Since then I've kind of wondered about doing it, but now I am serious and have the time to learn/work on programming. :)

How about yourself and how long have you been programming?

[Alexander]

I had been for roughly 10 years, one of my first languages (more full time) was Pascal, ah the memories there and how languages changed since then. Somewhere along the road ported to the more used C and did some trunk work on PHP 4.1.0 (implementing the superglobals), got somewhat rusty since then I think on it but am glad to help people out.

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard!

[JessAlba452]

Nullw0rm said:

I had been for roughly 10 years, one of my first languages (more full time) was Pascal, ah the memories there and how languages changed since then. Somewhere along the road ported to the more used C and did some trunk work on PHP 4.1.0 (implementing the superglobals), got somewhat rusty since then I think on it but am glad to help people out.

That's a long time of coding experience! :) It's crazy how things change in the technical world I agree with you there. I'm sure I'll have some questions about coding coming up very soon ;)

Are all languages basically the same?
I've read/heard that C/C++ and Objective-C are slightly different, but I'm not sure in what sense.

How about JavaScript/HTML?

Sorry for all the n00bie-like questions lol there is just so much code out there to learn and I wondered if any of it related to each other. Otherwise it is a LOT to learn and seems like it would take forever to do so. :)

WingedPanther said:

Welcome aboard!

Thanks! :)

[WingedPanther]

Think of C, Objective-C, and C++ as a continuum from structured, to object oriented, to object oriented + templates. More features as you move to the right, but you can also make bigger mistakes as you move to the right.

[lor]

Hey, welcome to CC. Yep, never too late to start learning.
Hopefully see you around.