Donnie is a Lazy Punk
March 15th, 2004 | Published in General
…what a surprise! The QOTD has been passed on to me.
I’ve been so lazy the past two days. I’ve done a few errands and bought some new hardware (like a Radeon 9200 and a 17″ Sony flat-panel display). But for the most part I’ve done nothing but sit in my room and somehow killed two days. There are a bunch of computer related projects I want to work on as well as some homework, but I can’t stand to touch my computer for more than a few minutes at a time.
To answer’s Mike’s QOTD…
The first computer I ever used was a Tandy something or other running some DOS variant that my brother Darryl bought back in 1992 or 1993. The first computer I ever used on a regular basis was the Apple Macintosh Performa 630CD that my parents bought for me for Christmas in 1994. It had a whopping 250 MB hard drive, 4x CD-ROM, 8 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 20 MB), and a 66/33 MHz processor. The reason for the funky speed was that the clock ran at 66 MHz but the processor itself only ran at 33 MHz.
It’s a little early in the day to post the next QOTD, but what the heck, I’ll probably forget to pose one later in the day. So… what is the first programming language you learned, and what did you use it for? (don’t get all technical about that really being two questions; the first is rather boring without the second).
My response: the first programming language I learned was C++, from one of those Learn X in 21 Days books waaaayyyy back in 1997 or 1998. Of course, I was using Mac OS 7.x/8.x back then so there were very few C/C++ compilers available for the platform (Metrowerks CodeWarrior and Apple’s MPW are the only two I know of), so I didn’t really *use* C++ until a year or two later when I purchased CodeWarrior PR1 (for *full* price, mind you). It wasn’t until I learned True Basic and Visual Basic in my freshman year of high school that I truly understood C++ so I began writing simple console apps. With the advent of REALbasic, I started doing serious coding (I started using it back when it was CrossBasic 1.0r17, IIRC), including network apps, a serial number/registration module, and some simple utilities.
I’m going to go out on a limb and pass the QOTD on to James Kraetz, as I think he might be one of the few people reading PC over break. I would pass it on to Mike McCabe, but he’s otherwise occupied. Oh, and Mellon Dog will *so* kick Lime Cat’s ass. 
Another tangent: I think it’s time someone came up with a tagline for Planet COSI. My current recommendation: Doesn’t Cause Anal Leakage (courtesy of The Oblongs)
