I'm an old school (Basic, Pascal, Delphi) programmer / networking / infrastructure guy who actually enjoys...

I'm an old school (Basic, Pascal, Delphi) programmer / networking / infrastructure guy who actually enjoys programming ;) For work I've transitioned into C# .Net via VB.Net to the point that I'm doing a fair amount of it in different spheres including Android.

Despite being inexperienced at C# / Mobile, I have been informally helping colleagues along and feel like I am helping them getting over hurdles that were making them afraid to get involved.

Lately I've discovered Unity and I'm finding it almost revolutionary.

Random posts on this forum have lead me to believe there are more of you lurking here who might be interested to walk this journey with the rest of us. I invite you to watch the following tutorial(s) on youtube to get a sense of how easy/hard it would be to learn how to do something graphical and hopefully fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR5QFsefuO2RlAgWEz6EvVi6

Please post in the comments if you want me to STFU about this and I'll move on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48LtUkZRjU&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR5QFsefuO2RlAgWEz6EvVi6

Comments

Ian Stoffberg said…
Lazy me, I should have mentioned that I was pointed to Brackey's channel on Youtube by Wayne
May 4, 2018 at 6:22 AM
Good Guys Gaming said…
Praise be Brackey.
I am going through the Unity basics at the moment also.
May 4, 2018 at 6:52 AM
Max Acceleration said…
Although i've never touched Unity I'm like Ian, an old school programmer. I used to code in RPG, Pascal/DELPHI, Fortran, Cobol, Visual Basic and PERL. At the moment I'm learning Python. I still do Windows batch files & WMIC as well as BASH scripting on Unix/Linux. I may have to at least look at Unity. I've only ever written text based game stuff so might be interesting.
May 4, 2018 at 10:10 AM
Wayne “Gkaruk” said…
Ian Stoffberg your welcome. I still have Unity on my list to do more with.
Also old school, when developers were called analyst programmers. Started with QuickBasic then C, C++, Pascal, Sql. Then onto Visual Basic with the move to .Net and PowerShell in early 2000s.
Now wading through the DevOps world of Chef using Ruby, GitHub with some PyPi and Nuget repos and joys of Docker and Jenkins.
Feeling like my old tech self again.. good times.😁
May 4, 2018 at 12:02 PM
Ian Stoffberg said…
Wayne No Puppet? (Joking!)
May 4, 2018 at 12:04 PM
Steve Gledhill said…
Max Acceleration I'm also learning Python and I've noticed that C# is the preferred language for Unity (second to Javascript). I've never used any of those. I think I'd like to carry on with my python development rather than learn a new language.
I've installed Unity and it looks fun but I wonder if I'd get a better sense of achievement from building some half-useful web app with Flask or Django. That said, I like the portability of Unity in contrast to Python which seems to struggle with desktop GUIs and mobile app ports.
May 4, 2018 at 12:11 PM
Dennis Wronka said…
Looks like we've had a similar path into coding. I started with text adventures in MS QBasic (still have them somewhere), then Pascal (lost most of that stuff), some Assembler (not sure I still have anything of that) because Pascal's graphics routines were too slow, and then Delphi (probably all gone).
From there I've also looked into C/C++, later C#, PHP and Java.
May 4, 2018 at 12:52 PM
Wayne “Gkaruk” said…
Ian Stoffberg well funny you should mention as its on the list with Ansible too :) Just too much at mo, so one pipeline first. Also looking at jFrog Artifactory and jFrog X-Ray for singular binaries repo tool supporting Nugent, Docker, Mavern, RPM, PyPi and many others.
May 4, 2018 at 1:29 PM
Ian Stoffberg said…
Wayne It's so strange hearing windows people talking about scripting after all these years of unix people getting it done. Have a look at openpascal/lazarus. In some respects, better than Delphi and code compatible with forms, etc. Works with Linux too with GTK and QT bindings. Still. Mentally I've made the shift away to C#, but you can't escape Python for scripting ;) It's just sooo good at it.
May 5, 2018 at 3:08 AM
Steve Gledhill said…
Max Acceleration I was wondering if you are learning Flask or Django for your web framework? I've been trying to learn Flask but have just come unstuck with sending emails and wonder if Flask is too ambitious for me? Django has a lot of functionality built-in whereas Flask is more bare-bones and relies on building things piece by piece. I wanted to use Flask because it is described as more flexible but perhaps I need the structure of Django until I've gained more experience?
https://www.codementor.io/garethdwyer/flask-vs-django-why-flask-might-be-better-4xs7mdf8v#quick-comparison
May 6, 2018 at 2:46 AM
Max Acceleration said…
Steve Gledhill I've not played with Flask or Django yet. I'll have to look at them to learn more. I'm using Wing IDE for Python in case anyone is looking for a good IDE.
May 6, 2018 at 9:01 AM
Steve Gledhill said…
Wing looks good but I'm grandfathered in to Pycharm at £40 a year and it works well for me.
May 6, 2018 at 1:56 PM
Max Acceleration said…
Steve Gledhill I’ve heard good things about Pycharm.
May 6, 2018 at 7:28 PM
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