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10-08-2008, 09:13 AM
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So I'm taking a microcontrollers class, and I made a program that can basically read in a letter or number and then display it on a screen repeatedly. The microcontrollers we are using were new in the 80's. Still it's pretty neat, I can make a completely useless program using equipement that is obsolete. Fun times. Discuss.
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10-08-2008, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='909476' date='Oct 8 2008, 10:22 AM
Sounds like fun. Last academic experience I had was a Unix class back in 2001. I really enjoyed writing programs, or scripts, or whatever they were called.
Yeah I don't know about all that. This is just basically telling a computer how to get ready, wait, then accept and interpret a signal from let's say a keyboard. So it will read that you hit the key that corresponds to the letter Q. Then it stores this and then outputs it to the monitor where the letter Q will be displayed.
I learned a little bit about coding and programming webpages in a class in 02 but I don't remember much of it.
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10-08-2008, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by G2G' post='909475' date='Oct 8 2008, 07:13 AM
So I'm taking a microcontrollers class, and I made a program that can basically read in a letter or number and then display it on a screen repeatedly. The microcontrollers we are using were new in the 80's. Still it's pretty neat, I can make a completely useless program using equipement that is obsolete. Fun times. Discuss.
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sounds like school.... but at least its fun school
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