RE: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind programmers
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:15:44 -0400
Laugh yes I have read them and there was a time I could write some very good
stuff with nothing but a debugger. Just because it's nasty don't mean it's
impossible. I was not even in the same class of some of the guys I used to
hang out with. I knew one that won a programming contest who wrote a
program to display a naked woman with nothing more than Assembler and a text
editor. As for machine language you can write it on your own if you know
enough. Unfortunately time has dulled my memory of useless interrupts
because we have so much easier ways to do things now. I think I could
probably get a command line app to run with nothing but a hex editor but
calling the GUI might be beyond me because you would have to do some serious
digging to get that to work and sometimes the information is just not
available anymore.
Ken
Ken
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What? Have you ever read the x86 information sheets? Teaching someone
assembly is a good way to teach them how a computer works -- having them
write programs in pure byte code (especially for x86) is both asinine
and impractical. Maybe not so much for an extremely extremely simple
virtual machine or basic processor, but complex instruction sets like
x86 are flat-out beyond writing op-codes by hand. If you don't believe
me, just take a poke at the NASM source code. ;)
On 4/8/2011 6:47 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
> I am not quite as old as you but I come from the same time zone. I had to
> learn assembler to hack games on the Vic 20 and the commodore 64 and the
TI
> but more than that when I joined the Air Force and took on Electronics
> Assembler made my life easier. Then later in life after I lost my site I
> took software engineering and had to burn chips and while we could have
> wrote stuff in C it was much easier to control the registers and stuff
with
> ASM. If we used C we allot of the time had to use special assembler
> keywords to get things to work quite right. If you look on the Fruit
Basket
> page I was also insane enough to write the fruit basket in Assembler for
> windows xp and it runs in vista. I am not sure if that runs in Windows 7
> but I should revisit it and make sure it does. Lost knowledge is not a
good
> thing. Assembler may not be a way I would write a project now days but if
> you want to teach someone how your computers work there is only one thing
> better. The one thing better is straight opt codes using a debugger and
> watching what is going on. Well you could also write straight binary
files
> like a good Fortran coder but who does that any more. That what I should
do
> is create the fruit basket with nothing but a hex editor.
>
> Ken
>
>
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind
> programmers
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Littlefield, Tyler<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>> Assember? Really? You must be almost as old
>>> as me! I can't even find people who care about speed or memory usage
>>> anymore.
>> I love assembler. It's a great way to teach people what's going on under
> the
>> hood and make them think about what they do. Every time I see someone
>> reserve a 100k buffer just because, I cringe. :)
> We must be from the same generation. I'm 47, and learned to program
> in machine code on an 8080 based Intel board with a hex keypad and
> some LEDs. It was a couple of years before I found out that people
> programmed using assemblers, rather than entering hex by hand.
>
> I worry that the new generation's early experience with computers is
> amazing games and technology so complex they could never realistically
> hope to understand it. What's the natural path now days for kids to
> go from playing computer games to writing them? On the old Apple IIs,
> you just typed list instead of run, and there was all the code.
>
> Bill
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