Welcome to my programming tips blog.
My name is Miki and I am a software developer , programmer and engineer from Israel. It is 2010 now and I'm aged 31 years old right now, I have no diploma in computer science (although I did start my studies but quit in the middle, simply because i got a realy good job offer) but I do my work professionally and flawlessly.
Would like to give a little background about my programming experience now, so you should who I am and where I got from.
I had my first computer back in 1986, when I was just 8 years old - It was a Sinclair ZX-Spectrum that was connected to the home TV screen and used Cassette Tape to save its code !!!
In the beginning I started just by playing games in it, as a kid, but at some point I got curious and wanted to start and develop my own games, so thats when I actually started my first touches in programming using the Sinclair's BASIC language back when I was just 8 years old.
I got my first "official" computer when I was 10 years old as a birthday gift from my father in November 1988. This computer was IBM XT running 8086 CPU with 10Mhz speed, No HDD, and with a CGA display screen, and "just" 256KB of RAM. You have guessed it right - its a realy damn slow computer, compared to what it is today, but it was way more powerful than the Sinclair one I had. With this computer I started to write more complex programs in BASIC. At some point I realized that basic was a limited language, and that if i wanted to create computer games i needed operations like screen scrolling and FAST graphics rendering to be done, that was when I moved to Pascal. Pascal was a much faster language, and I have spent most of my youth ages 10-17 writing programs in Pascal (mostly) and in C (very few).
Pascal was still a limited language and in order to create realy fast calculations I eventually discovered that i'll need to learn how to embed "Assembly" code in my Pascal programs, so I then learned Assembly and discovered its such a simple yet powerful language, that I even wrote WHOLE programs from start to scratch in assembly. It was fun !!
So what kind of programs did i write from ages 8-17 , in BASIC, PASCAL and ASSEMBLY?
Many kinds of different programs: from simple drawing programs, to calculation programs, and then to encoding programs, compression programs, advanced sounds & graphics programs (big thanks to SWAG library for many of the knowledge!!), at some point I even started to create BIG projects such as: a complete audio editing software, graphics editing software, and eventually I even wrote a networking server (!!!) - a BBS software, written purely in Pascal, that was used to serve files to multiple users.
In terms of programming "touch", I can say i have it.
I didn't learn how to program the way they teach in the university today - filled with unuseful math, complex recursion tasks, and alot of realy UNUSEFUL technology being taught. My entire programming skills were learnt by REAL LIFE PRACTICE - in building hundreds upon hunders of programs in different languages.
Every big "project" or computer program is eventually made out of smal "chunk" procedures, or "sub-programs". So it actually came to the point, that after having learnt how to program to many hundreds of "small programs", I could KNOW exactly, intuitively, ALL THE "SMALL PROGRAMS" i'll need to use in order to create ANY BIG project !
In this blog, Im looking forward to share my insights on programming as well as to give tips on anything I can include: from networking and writing server-clients (which is where most of my work these days is done) all the way to algorithms, optimizations, operating systems and more that i can include.
I hope this blog will give you a different kind of view on programming, and that you will find useful answers here that can help you.
You are more then welcome to leave your comments and feedback on every post im going to bring in here and if you have any questions feel free to ask them and i'll do my best to answer them if i have the time for it !
Thank you for reading all of this,
Im more than even sure you WILL find this blog useful and more than even glad you found this.
Respectfully,
Miki
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