Aspies For Freedom

Hello my name is Chris,

I have asperger syndrome (diagnosed) and I'm really good at computers,
My interests are Programming (C++,C# and VB), Hex Editing, Hacking Emulated Roms (gba,nes,snes and n64), and I also like to beta test Microsoft Corp. Products (volunteerly, such as windows vista, Office 2007 and WLM)

The reason I am posting this is because I have never met another aspie this good at computers before and i'm looking for a friend.

Hope to get your replys soon,
Chris

I have a cisco fetish
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Nice to meet you

I'm yet another aspie that is good with computers, more the hardware side, but I do have a mobile phone interest that ties in with my computer interest as I mod Motorola phones and that tends to involve hex editing occassionaly

Oh, and welcome

I like doing AI and also embedded systems programming.

I'm pretty decent at software programming, having started with C++ at age 11, and programming-esque things at age 10 (although I'm currently only a few years above that, but still). I have done fair-size things in C/C++ (Tetris using Allegro, which I never fixed enough bugs to get functiona; [I programmed it in an 8 hour stretch with no testing, so of course it's full of bugs] so I don't know if that counts), Java, PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby, and I'm getting started in ASP.NET 2.0.

I have a major intrest in programming, which is also connected to a few other larger intrests. One is gaming, another is audio processing. Currently I'm mainly working on two projects, a set of currently unreleased DSP plugins (fREaKy Plugin Set) in, for now, VST and Winamp format, and my own fork of the FLTK GUI library, FLPTK. (FLPTK has just been approved as a sourceforge project, so now the first official alpha version can be released pretty soon. the plugins I will release sometime afterwards. if anyone would want to beta-test them however, I can send a copy of the VST and/or Winamp dlls)

Then there is my oldest project, a textbased RPG game-engine (with a script system with a virtual machine and compiler) and an accompanying set of data that likely will take ages to finish, due to all the other projects. I learned the basics of C++ working on it.

I have been heavily into web development with PHP, Java and ASP and am now sinking my teeth into C# and VB. I also like beta testing, although I cannot afford an MSDN subscription  

Yuck. VB sucks.

That is an understatement:

Dim x As Integer = 0 (VB)

versus

int x = 0 (C and relatives)

versus

x = 0 (Python, Ruby, and other dynamically typed languages)


The only thing that could be worse is Cobol...

How is having code so verbose that it takes more willpower than not eating garlic bread to copy in code from a book to learn it being user friendly? Not to mention the annoying, time consuming, capitalization that good style requires...

How is having to click and drag, and then hunt through a small window for a specific property to change user friendly?

Java and Python are probably much, much better first languages. Not to mention they're both completely free.

I know, and I don't care, which is why I said "completely free" instead of "free". That was just a general statement. I can personally get the full version for free, as my father is a Microsoft partner.

Are you saying that C# is feature-rich and powerful? Please, you must stop letting Microsoft brainwash you.

C# is almost a Java clone; their syntax is almost identical.

Python, however, is a true high-level language, unlike C# or Java, and thus is far superior, with features such as dynamic typing and multiple inheritance.

Ruby is more superior still; it supports duck-typing, closures, code blocks, reflection, metaprogramming, innate regular expressions, lambda, easy syntax for optional or uncertain quantities of arguments, keyword arguments (well, kinda), expansion of core classes, innate security functionality with the tainted object system, method and operator overiding, and even more things that I can't think of right now (such as the ability to write "Hi #{name}" instead of "Hi "&name, the latter of which gets really annoying when you have to do several of them).

Python is good for prototyping something before taking it to C, or for doing high-level logic that isn't CPU intensive and scripts. Anything else isn't worth bothering with.

High level languages such as Python and Ruby have the advantage over lower level languages like C in that the programmer uses less time to write the program.

Computer time is no longer anywhere close to being as valuable as development time (in most cases). Otherwise, we'd still be creating uncommented code in Fortran.

why do gnus keep making me so happy?


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You're not into programming but into software?
Programming is producing software.......