Sunday, October 11, 2009

Programming Language Shmanguage!!!!!

So I have been a Graphic Designer for about 3 yrs now, I am counting the time since I finished my first project for a client.  I have decided to open myself up to different tyoes of work, not only am I doing general design, I am also doing Web Design Programming, Software Programming and some code work for scripting.  I have to say, it has been a little more than I expected working on several projects at once.  I have always known that the capitalist regime in America is one of the main causes driving the development of new technologies, but I had no idea how intricate the part of capitalism would play in the development of programming language.  In designing and editing the scripts in a web page, re-editing a program for compiling and writing the Actionscript for an animation sequence in Flash, I think I have seen and written the word "var" about a million times!  The languages are all so different, yet so alike that it's so easy to forget what program you are in or working with and begin to add in the wrong code.  Not only that, but I have been learning new languages because different languages are ideal for different kinds of jobs and I have learned that there are dozens of types of programming languages out there.  In computer programming there's FORTRAN, COBOL, C++ and more.  In web design, there is HTML, XHTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, and more. In animation, there are three levels of Actionscripting depending on which version of software you are using.  It's a lot to be swirling around in your head all at once.  For those of you who are not in to programming, this may all sound like gibberish.  But for those of you that know what I'm talking about, I'm sure you can feel my pain.
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3 comments:

  1. F.DilgerOctober 12, 2009 at 9:25 AM

    Hello,

    There used to be a movement toward natural programming languages that would make it simpler. That seems to to have fallen by the wayside.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 11:21 AM

    I've only learned a couple of computer languages myself, but only some basic stuff to get some basic work done. Even so, I can understand how much of a nightmare it must be to have to continually keep learning new languages.

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  3. MAGEEKOctober 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    For sure people get scare of the talk,but the more you communicate the lanuage of computers it's alright. I began programming in september and in october I found a group to discust the problems of software and the timely hours of programming, we all have something to stop us along this course. (Like old computer that don't work!!!).

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