Any other programmers here?

[flames]

Just wondered if there were any other programmers here, whether as a hobby or as a job or anyone who's just learning. I know there's a thread almost the same as this but it's almost 2 years old.
So, what languages do people use, how long have they been coding, etc?

I know BASH shell scripting, some python, a little bit of C++ and I once upon a time I knew a tiny bit of C as well.

[Tweak]

Yup, I do quite a bit of freelancing plus work around here.

Mostly work in PHP but can also program in C#, Ruby on Rails and Java.

Can also use HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, SQL and have touched on bash.

There's probably more but, I forget.

[flames]

Yup, I do quite a bit of freelancing plus work around here.

Mostly work in PHP but can also program in C#, Ruby on Rails and Java.

Can also use HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, SQL and have touched on bash.

There's probably more but, I forget.

Yeah, I knew you were pretty varied with your languages. Makes sense that your languages tend to be server/web-orientated, huh?
There's probably enough similarities between languages to learn others fairly quickly when you know that many fairly well.

I'd say that the first steps in programming that I'd actually call worthwhile (before then I had briefly messed around with some really simple C programs and batch scripts) were with bash. Such a versatile scripting language, especially with the wealth of tools that tend to come on most unix and unix-like systems. I ended up making a graphical wrapper of sorts for the "man" command in a few lines using bash and some external tools early on

[josh_down]

i'm an algorithmic music composer, i've been going for about a year or so now. but i know basically nothing about any other kinds of programming languages. i use Supercollider, which i think is a variant on C, but i honestly couldn't tell you anything else about it.


i'm composing now a series of pieces based on different types of weather. Rain, Fog, Wind and Sun (hopefully a few more too), and they're for synthesis and piano. all piano notes are produced live algorithmicaly, and so it'll be different everytime. i did have some examples on my FA page of some drafts but i recently took them all down to clean it up.

[ƒyreblue ƒox]

erm, i'm taking Java next year. I hope to take it further after that...

[Kyriin]

I know basic html, can sort of edit CSS and work with some PHP.
I'm pretty hopeless at the rest.

[Righteousbro]

For web design I can mostly only agree with Jasper.

And programming, well I fail at programming if that counts.....

I didn't finish learning enough but eventually I'll get around to learning C++ again.
Also I hope to learn Java after that, I think I should have learned it before I started C++ though, apparently it's easier and still incredibly useful if you're good, I know very little about how I'm supposed to learn.

[flames]

Seems most people are involved in web development/design these days, which I guess shouldn't surprise me. Java seems to be a bit more popular than I thought it would be though. I did consider Java in the past and I may yet learn it in the future but for now, as a hobby, I'm happy to work mostly in python. It's a good language, pretty easy in comparison to most languages and very extendible.

I know very little about how I'm supposed to learn.

I still don't really know how we're "supposed" to learn, I just went for tutorials to take the first steps with a language, try to find some simple example programs, start looking at some documentation and all this whilst I tinker with what I know. With tutorials that walk you along, showing you code and explaining what it means, once I've gotten the basic program they included down and I think I understand the commands and syntax well enough I'll edit a few values, maybe add or remove something and see if the program will still run/compile and if the changes did what I expected. If the program doesn't work the way I thought, I've misunderstood something and should read more. If all is well, I move forwards.

[Buddywolf]

I know LUA, Basic HTML, and a few strings of java.

[TechRoo]

Well, i started out 6 years ago programming Microchip microcontrollers in basic and a year later in C+.
Also got a little experiance in programming webpages in PHP and ASP. (css/html/javascript included).

Currently Learning java @ school

For work (Software Development Engineer) i use a few programming languages:
- B&R plc,s in C+
- SICK IVC 3D and Cognex InSight industrial vision camera,s in their own strange programming interfaces. (If you ever work with them you know what i mean  )
- Fanuc industrial robots in TP and KAREL (Got a 2 week course a month ago)
- Programming machine interfaces and some custom end-user applications in VB.net

So yea, i live to program....and i program to live

[kosu]

Ok so...I skimmed most of the responses but I think I'll be the first to say, I program in ActionScript!  Yay Flash!! 

Also have a little experience with Lite-C, C#, HTML, XML, Visual BASIC, and TorqueScript.

[Aoren Deringer]

I know C, Assembely, and a teeny, tiny bit of Python (learning)
Not a job, but I like to do some stuff in my free time.

I would like to do some work with HTML... But nooooo..... Not now.

[TechRoo]

I believe that with programming languages there isn't a real difference between the various hardware platforms.
Doesn,t matter if you are programming PLC,s, Embedded systems, PC Programs or microcontrollers, C+ is C+.
Same thing applies with other languages.

Makes it very easy for a programmer to switch hardware platforms.

[Mr. Chriddof]

I'm learning HTML at the moment. Going to try Java next.