I didn't start programming until I entered college, but I always knew I wanted to study something related to computers. I am now currently in my Senior year of Computer Engineering. I have done my fair bit of programming the past few years, mostly in Java. I also have experience with C++, C#, Python, HTML... and now I am learning about databases. I'm also taking an Advanced Algorithms course this semester, which I find fascinating (since it is much more about analysis and design than just coding). Of course studying CE also means I have some good background in hardware as well.

Before school, I experimented with various things the computer can or cannot do. You know, reverse engineering web pages and programs. I had taught myself HTML and how to make various MS-DOS programs. I also played around with RPG Maker 2000, which allowed me to learn basic programming principles like forking conditions and variables. In highschool, I took up some programming classes. They started us on dead noob languages, like Q Basic in order to introduce us to Visual Basic. After learning Visual Basic, the rest was pretty easy. Most languages share core fundamental arguments and functions. Blah blah, more classes. Blah blah, C++. I taught myself PHP, how to work around with SQL, a bit of Java, and am trying to learn other languages. I'll probably take up some more classes some time. Programing is pretty great. You get to be an inventor, engineer, and scientist all in the same go; find solutions to problems and make tasks easier.

I started with high school classes. Our teacher had us start with Pascal, later we went to C++. After those classes I havent did much on my own. I still mess wih it from time to time, learning new things. The last thing I was working on was an Advance style battle simulator for the DS. I put the project on hold to start on my HG/SS translation. I think I will pick it back up soon. If you want to seem what I have done so far, you can download it here.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MLFWM5QW

You need No$GBA or a DS flashcart to use it, DeSmuMe does not work with EFS. No real battling is in yet. Just some place holder code for testing how the game is running things for menu navigation, turn order, etc.

I started when I was about 11 or 12 with C++. At some point I moved on to C which is where I actually started to understand what the hell was going on, after which I installed Linux on my computer (which turns out to be pretty helpful for anyone wanting to learn programming because the tools are right there) and from there it was all smooth sailing.

My favorite languages are probably Perl and Lisp. For as much as I hated Python at first, it's pretty okay too. I also once used Prolog (part of a class of languages I haven't seen anyone mention at all) but I haven't used it in a while.

Oh, and I'm not really doing computer science anymore -- I moved on to biomed engineering, where I'm also interested in computational biology.

Also I can't seem to figure out how to post a new discussion in this group -- how is that done?

If you back up one page to the main page, under this topic's title you should see "Post New Discussion."

Also, i will add my two cents sometime later when i actually have something worthwhile to add. (i dont count mircscript!)

My friend Kazo is making bunch of cool programs and awesome mods and it looked very interesting so I decide to try programming out and began to learn about C++ since beginning of this month.

So yeah I'm still pretty new at this and so far only thing I accomplished is modify the source file of DeSmuME emulator so it can only record the top screen.

My first programming experience was when I was 12, where I went to a week-long computer camp at Harvey Mudd College (one of the Claremont Colleges). I learned some BASIC and wrote this really dumb program where It draws three circles on a canvas, stacks them up to look like a snow man, then moves across the screen. One night soon after, I opened up Claris Works (an awesome but short-lived HTML editor in the vein of Dreamweaver) and just started typing up my own Pokémon page, "Dragonite's Pokémon Network." I uploaded it to my AOL account and messed around with FTP, and got it to work all in one night. In the next year or so, when I got real hosting, I started installing message board and news posting CGI programs, then I started writing programs myself. Perl was my first language.

After that, I moved to Realbasic (RB) on Mac OS 9 (right before X came out), which was a fun OO version of BASIC that had a very awesome GUI editor. I sort of stopped programming at that point, but got into PHP to see if I could relive the fun of CGI programming.

I entered college as an Electrical Engineering major and took a few programming classes, notably C, Verilog/VHDL, and MATLAB. In fact, most of my upper division electives involved the use of MATLAB to simulate analog and digital filters, control systems, and RF/Communications systems. In the meantime, I learned Java independently (Java was only an elective in my major and I didn't want to take a class). More recently, I got back into C, and within the past two weeks or so I've started working in Objective-C on Mac OS 10.6. My current project is a program to facilitate RNG abuse in FireRed and LeafGreen. It's basically a very tiny RNG reporter that will perform searches for spreads only on seeds 0 to 0xFFFF. So far, the biggest feature is generating frames from a given seed (Method 1 only for now), and right now It's able to show the PID (and all of the nice features that come from that), IVs, and Hidden Power Type/Base Power. Here's some relatively outdated screen shots... this only shows PID, not IVs, but I expect I should have screen shots of the updated version soon.