Programming

I’ve been using computers for just about my entire life, so it’s not shouldn’t be that suprising that I’ve been doing computer programming for a while too. The first real programming language I learned was C++, which I taught to myself from a book when I was in sixth grade. Now I’m junior and am taking Computer Science at school learning Java. Last year I made a word search program for a finals project in Comp. Sci. At some point forever ago, I taught myself HTML, later more recently I taught myself W3C standards compliant XHTML and CSS. Though I can’t really claim to have designed all of this site (it’s a modifed version of a theme) I can somewhat claim to have designed the layout. Recently I’ve become interested in the Ruby on Rails web programming language and may try to learn a bit of it.

I know a some of the C++ programming language. In sixth or seventh grade I wrote a program that will do some of your math homework for you. It is a fairly basic program that can convert fractions to decimals and a few other things. I used it to learn a bit of C++ and it’s called The Homework Cheater. Later I looked back at the code and it was really really bad. But isn’t anything you make the first time really bad? For anyone who knows C++ or really any language similar to C, it was just a huge pile of switch statements.