Conversation Between acatfrommars and Alexander Nicholi
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  1. Alexander Nicholi
    December 11th, 2013 7:35 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Thanks! This name is actually senior to AlexTheRose :)
  2. acatfrommars
    December 10th, 2013 9:41 PM
    acatfrommars
    Hey buddy. I like the name change! :D
  3. acatfrommars
    December 7th, 2013 9:35 AM
    acatfrommars
    Lolol thanks buddy!

    Yeah, but I thought it was funny. :)
  4. Alexander Nicholi
    December 6th, 2013 3:25 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Congratulations on making it to System.Core.Convert.ToString.NullValueException: Cannot concatenate converted string from int if int is null

    You should at least display your age, otherwise that exception gets thrown :(
  5. Alexander Nicholi
    November 28th, 2013 7:28 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Not really. The thing with programming is that the vocabulary isn't necessarily universal for every program. Visual Studio gives programmers a false impression of how binaries function, since they come loaded with hundreds of thousands of methods and functions that could do pretty much anything you'd ever dream of doing, thus resulting in the average VS user not having to actually make any backbone code at all.

    In real programming (such as non-VS C++, Java, and Python), there are simple libraries that give you methods for creating GUIs and working with the hardware and such, but they don't have such a crazy amount of libraries you wouldn't know what to do with like in VS.

    When I first started programming, I began with making a text editor in Visual Basic .NET 2010 Express. At that time I thought that VS would already have the methods I needed, and at the beginning I had no idea what calling a function meant.

    Years later I got an idea of what real programming when I delved into ANSI C. At that point I had an epiphany, and realized that all of those functions weren't simply part of the machine code; they were included with the Visual Studio package. I got a true perspective of methods, functions, return values, and more; I realized that Visual Studio's methods were on the same plane as the methods that were calling them. And that's when I started programming for real.
  6. acatfrommars
    November 28th, 2013 6:41 PM
    acatfrommars
    I want to pick it up as a hobby in the future just like gaming journalism is a small hobby now. Thanks for the info., I din't know that. Did it take you a long time to learn?
  7. Alexander Nicholi
    November 25th, 2013 7:33 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    I'll let you in on a secret about programming. As surprising as it may be, everything is based off of C/C++. Yes, every major programming language, for Windows or otherwise, comes from C (including its replacement, C++). If you can learn the structure of C, you'll already know C#, VB, Java, and even PHP to a degree.

    Just know that, if you ever major or minor in Computer Science, take C or C++ first. :)
  8. acatfrommars
    November 22nd, 2013 1:33 PM
    acatfrommars
    Oh no, I've never even attempted something that high level. I may do some things like that as a hobby when I get older, but don't really care about that stuff right now. It's really interesting and can be difficult to learn though. That's really impressive that you are skilled at it. Do you aspire to be a programmer or developer?
  9. Alexander Nicholi
    November 19th, 2013 8:35 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and VBScript aren't high-level programming languages, since they don't compile into a binary form. Rather, they're what you call markup languages.

    As for non-markup languages, I've created a couple programs in C#, and more than a few in Visual Basic. I really adore the other non-VS languages such as C++, Python, and Java, since they don't require you to buy some IDE from Microsoft for an outrageous amount of money. I've been actively programming since I was 13, and started with Visual Studio's VB.NET 2010. :)
  10. acatfrommars
    November 19th, 2013 7:22 PM
    acatfrommars
    Hm, that's cool. Do you do those cool hacks for MC like the pokemon hacks and stuff? I know this kid that is crazy good at stuff like that.

    Well I know a little html, because I write for another site and use Wordpress, but besides that not really. I'm interested in it though, I may pick it up some day. Are you good at coding and such?
  11. Alexander Nicholi
    November 19th, 2013 7:11 PM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Somewhat, I still kind of go in and out of it. After playing Minecraft on the PC Supporter Server (which I manage), I've discovered a new love in programming: Java.

    Program much? Fave languages? Web-based or binary?

    (If you answered no the the first question, disregard the others as you probably don't understand what they mean.)
  12. acatfrommars
    November 18th, 2013 9:52 AM
    acatfrommars
    Oh I used to play MC a lot, bt I sporadically play now. Are you still an avid player?
  13. Alexander Nicholi
    November 15th, 2013 6:51 AM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Yes. :)
  14. acatfrommars
    November 14th, 2013 9:08 PM
    acatfrommars
    By MC do you mean Minecraft?
  15. Alexander Nicholi
    November 10th, 2013 1:38 AM
    Alexander Nicholi
    Nothin' much really. I just finished setting up a Bukkit server called BreadCraft out of nostalgia for an old server from the beta days called Mutt's World.

    Do you play MC?