[nfbcs] first programs?

[Jim Barbour]

Now that's cool!  I loved doing bio informatics in perl, and python
was my bread and butter language at Google <grin>

Jim

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:11:48PM +0000, Currin, Kevin wrote:
> My first program outside of class extracted an array of RNA base pairing probabilities from the output of the Vienna RNAfold program and calculated Shannon entropy with the pairing probabilities. It was written in Python.
> 
> Kevin
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> I'm not sure, but my first program was probably a COBOL report written in
> programming school.  My first professional program was a COBOL report for
> Patient Accounts in 1988, and I'm still writing reports for Patient
> Accounts, though not usually in COBOL, though I did just write a COBOL
> program a few weeks ago.
> I remember, for my first program, that my project leader specced the whole
> thing out in pseudo-code.  Looking back, I'm amazed.  I think that's the
> last time anything was specced out so thoroughly for me.
> Tracy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
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> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 9:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] first programs?
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> 
> >I wrote several small programs in applesoft basic, back in 1980.
> > Probably my first was a pong like game.
> >
> > I then graduated to IBM fortran and then to UNIX C in 1981.
> >
> > I really miss low level programming for sure.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:22:22PM -0500, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> >> Hello all:
> >> Given that this is a cs list, I kind of had a fun topic. As brought up by
> >> one of the most recent threads, I wrote a "swim" program a while back.
> >> This
> >> was one of my first programs I ever actually wrote for the pc, and was
> >> written for a school project in my 6th grade class using Libertybasic.
> >> I'd
> >> totally forgotten the program or the language itself, but it seems LB is
> >> still alive and kicking. I don't really remember much of the details of
> >> the
> >> program, just that it was a very very basic game, if it can be called
> >> that.
> >>
> >> What were some of your first projects?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Take care,
> >> Ty
> >> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he
> >> that dares not reason is a slave.
> >>
> >>
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