That's what got me into it too. That and optimizing DOS start-up just so that I could run games.
-----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:26 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Learning Programming It's funny - I started my 'career' by trying to cheat at games. I only learned hex so I could edit my chars on Bard's Tale. I also remember editing Lemonade Stand so I'd make money every turn no matter what (which quickly made the game no fun. ;) ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Hire Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:26 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Learning Programming > > > CS principles? You want to scare him off? :) > > Does he play any of the new computer games? Lots of kids these days > are picking up programming modding games. I can't believe the amount > of 16 year olds just picking up C and 3DSMax/Maya just because they > want to mod the Quake engine (it's open source). I imagine the RPG's > are probably a bit easier to get into, I know Diablo and Warcraft have > active mod scenes. Heck, installing and using Linux will get anyone > familiar with scripting after a while. I think my first useful > programming was done making bash scripts... > > -- > jon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 10:33:52 AM, you wrote: > RC> I have a 13 year old nephew who is a genius (or at least > in my mind ;). > RC> He seems to be interested in picking up programming. (He > borrowed one of > RC> my Mastering CF MX books and is thumbing through it.) I'd > _really_ like > RC> to help him learn programming, although I'm across the > country so I > RC> can't sit with him and cover the basics. Does anyone know > of a good > RC> program/book/whatever that teaches basic CS principles? I > don't care > RC> about the language - hell even ASP would be fine - but I > want something > RC> that teaches things like data structures, flow, etc. The > language is not > RC> important. > > RC> Any recommendations? Remember I won't be there and > unfortunately no one > RC> else local to him is a programmer. (Although I'm moving > there soon and I > RC> may just wait till I can personaly tutor him.) > > RC> Oh, and it doesn't have to be web specific - although I > am going to pick > RC> him up a good HTML book. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
