I finished reading the chapter on Morphic in Pharo by example. Then I read some of the chapter on seaside which I am almost finished with. I did not do any of the seaside examples since I don't have an image with seaside in it.
I just want to start writing my own programs. I am tried of reading programming books and only doing the examples. I want to bust loose and make my own programs.
I read the chaper on morphs in the pharo by example book, but, I did not finsih the chapter. Oh, well I will get it done today. While reading the chapter I thought this is going to take a long time to learn how to make my own programs but, I have got to try. After all if I had tried this hard 7+ years ago I would be a computer programming by now with 7 years of experience. The more I program or read about programming I hope the better I will undeerstand it.
Yesterday I read more of pharo by example. I read most of the chaper on streams. I thought that this was the furtherest I had read in the book at least pharo by example anyway. I think I read through the hole of squeak by example. But, as I was saying about pharo by example I think I might have read the entire book before but, I can't remember.
I started the chapter on morph's yesterday and hope to finish reading it today.
Today I thought about another thing I would like to program. And that is make games for Stella the Atari 2600 emulator. So I will add that to the list of things I want to do which will probably never get done. Or who know I might surprise myself and actually accomplish something. Stranger things have happened.
I think I have finally figured out what I want to do and its about time too. I have wanted to learn smalltalk since I read about it in Parc: Dealers of lightning but, have put it off until I learn some other programming language. Well I have not make anything in any other programming language so I might as well learn Pharo if that is what I want to learn as that hopefully will keep me interested enough to make some programs.
So with that in mind about 2 weeks ago or so I started reading Pharo by example. I wanted to wait until Pharo by example 2 was out until I started to learn the language but, the first pharo by example will work work.
At this point I just want to stick with a programming language and see if I can make programs or not. Its time for me to see what I can do. Put up or shut up time. I have dreamed about making programs so I need to start making programs.
I also want to learn how to use python so that I can use it with blender. But, I want small talk to be the programming language my primary programming language that I make programs with. I don't know that I need to think that way but, that is what I want to do.
I would also like to update this blog everyday but, I not sure if it would be that exciting writing today I read more of pharo by example. I suppose what does it matter its not like I have readers to bore so if I want to update everyday why not update everyday. Its my blog after all and if I think its ok for it to be boring let it be boring.
I also hope to make a website with a samlltalk webframework. I also want to put up a website with php, javascrip, and html.
These are my programming plans that I am sure will change in a web but, its the way I think now.Other programming languages I hope to learn how to make things with are pharo and ruby, php, javascrip. I want to use ruby so I can see what make a web site with rails is like and I also want to make gui apps with ruby shoes. I also want to make a web site with php.
I would also like to use pharo so because I am a big fan of smalltalk and I would not mind making a web app with seaside.
As I said yesterday I want to try to see if I can make computer games. I want to make game using python an Pygame. I also think it would be fun to use Lua and with Love. I think it would be very exciting to make games. I just want to see if I enjoy making games. Maybe it would be better to start with something easier than video games but, making video games are the reason I wanted to program so that is my goal.
All those programming languages and what good has it done me if I can't make anything useful. Sure I do like to learn about programming languages. The history of each one. Who were the people who created it any why did they create it but, I also want to see if I can make programs for my computer.
I wonder a lot if its worth it to learn how to program. And I came to the conclusion that it is worth it to learn how to program a computer. Because then I will know if I enjoy programming and won't have to keep asking myself I wonder if I might like programming or could I have been a programmer. If I try as hard as I can and I don't like it or I fail. Then I can say I gave it everything I had to give it and move on to another hobby I might like better.
So what do I want to make. I want to make computer games and put up a website so that is what I work hard on and hopefully I will get it done.
