My first program
I have some friends that run the online community GrupThink. I went and signed up for an alias and added a grup for posting programming cookbook questions and answers. The Perl Cookbook was the most valuable book to me when I was learning Perl and I always look for content like that when picking up a new language. I envision people posting questions and getting replies with code examples. It could become a repository for multiple languages…or not…whatever.
I posted the first question asking how to write an infinite loop in BASIC. My first 100% original program was this:
10 PRINT "KMart Sucks!"
20 GOTO 10
I used to type that in on the computers on the shelves and then walk around the store for awhile. The monitors would be scrolling with the message and there was no way to stop it unless you knew how to break the interpreter or shut the machine off. I caught employees several times shutting the machines off which made me very happy, it meant that I won. I must have been like 10 years old when I was doing that stuff. What a nerd.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
You *are* aware of http://www.perlmonks.org correct?
July 6th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Wow, I am amazed at the power of google alerts. I get the coolest people posting on my blog because I link to something I admire. I’m going to have to try to do it on purpose sometime.
Anyway, yah perlmonks is cool and very useful. But its still in the threaded “forum” style. The grupthink concept is based more on collaborative voting and making order out of chaotic information exhchange. Also my topic is not going to be limited to one language, because of that there could over time be some interesting meta-information accumulating about which languages produce the most questions, the most answers, etc. I know that there are online repositories for perl, python, java, ruby, etc. But I wanted to expiriment with this new type of medium to see what happens.
Thanks for the comment, and thanks for the awesome books.