X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c40b5c666c8072bd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-01 19:17:35 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AEF6F21.897D4837@hotmail.com> From: Kyle Organization: @Home Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Hey, LastFuture References: <3AE999C7.7E2F31D2@homail.com> <3AEEC38E.9B39FE6D@twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:17:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.13.148.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 988769854 24.13.148.172 (Tue, 01 May 2001 19:17:34 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:17:34 PDT Xref: newsfeed.google.com alt.ascii-art:5572 "Michael D. Phillips" wrote: > > Kyle Baker wrote: > > Have you ever programmed before? I think that this game may have > > potential. If you could answer a few of those questions, I may consider > > attempting to program it in some of my spare time. > > Kyle > I would like to help you out in the project. There are some questions > that need to be asked. Like the following: > > Is this a game or an utility program? > What is the main goal of the program or utility? > What language do you want to program this in? > What platform is this going to be for? These questions would be best answered by Last Future (I don't know where he dissapeared to though.) It was going to be a game, but we could combine it with a utility program maybe. It was going to be something with shifting an image into place. Eliminating tabs for example. Perl sounds good, but I don't know it. I am currently taking a C class and VB class. I find them both very simple, but I am not sure how deep my knowledge really is. It would be cool if we could make it for multiple platforms. I don't know how much help I can be, I will be gone this summer. It sounds like we could probably get a lot of different people to help. We need to get a site set up or something. We could do an open source. What do you think? Really we need Last Future's permission for all this though. He was the first to mention it. > > I think that Bateau is correct in saying that Perl is most likely the > best language. Perl is something that I just picked up about 3 or 4 > month ago. Any language is easy to learn the basic if you have a good > programming foundation. Cool. Wish I knew it. Where would you get a compiler? > > My programming experience: > Advance Programming in Think Pascal (High School Level) > Couple of months in Turbo Pascal (Self Learned) > Borland C++ (College Level) > Several Months of Perl (Self Learned) > Scripting Language (Self Learned) Good, now we just need to get started. Are you good with algorithms? Kyle