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2022-03-06 3:00 pm
My name is Charles and I live just north of Toronto in Canada. I’ve been involved with electronics since I picked up a 1950’s vintage, suitcase sized Zenith Transoceanic portable back in the 70s. I like to fix old radios, have lightly automated my house with old X-10 modules and do a lot of woodworking on the side. I spent 20 years in the high-tech industry, manufacturing computers in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Korea and Hong Kong. I learned K&R C back in the early 80s, but haven’t used it in y.e.a.r.s. I’m good at designing program flow (if X then Y), but I’m not particularly great at writing actual code (seriously compiler, if you know a semicolon should be there…)
I decided that it would be fun to integrate Arduino controlled devices into the X-10 mix, and found Bills excellent tutorials to be very helpful.
2022-03-06 4:52 pm
Hi @coop, welcome to the forumn. I also spent some time north of Toronto, I lived in Newmarket for a few years.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-03-07 1:33 pm
Welcome, Charles! I'm a bit further north of Toronto in Ottawa.
What are "X-10 modules"? I've not heard of those.
2022-03-13 3:35 pm
Waving hi from Ottawa - I'm also a high-tech industry sort (software jockey). 🙂
@yurkshirelad: Modules – X10.COM
Looking forward to what you come up with - be sure to share. 🙂
I edit my posts to fix typos, correct grammar, or improve clarity. On-screen keyboards are evil.
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2022-03-17 10:33 am
Welcome Coop,
I know what you mean about compilers - if they know it should be there then just flag a warning and get on with it!
Only joking, compilers are strict masters, but once you know their foibles then you can have them eating out of your hand!!!
Enjoy
Ron Bentley
Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation. Braden Kelley
A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output. Michael Kirby
Through great input you get great output. RZA
Gauss is great but Euler rocks!!
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2022-03-20 12:56 pm
@coop - Welcome aboard!
My name is Charles and I live just north of Toronto in Canada. I’ve been involved with electronics since I picked up a 1950’s vintage, suitcase sized Zenith Transoceanic portable back in the 70s. I like to fix old radios, have lightly automated my house with old X-10 modules and do a lot of woodworking on the side. I spent 20 years in the high-tech industry, manufacturing computers in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Korea and Hong Kong. I learned K&R C back in the early 80s, but haven’t used it in y.e.a.r.s. I’m good at designing program flow (if X then Y), but I’m not particularly great at writing actual code (seriously compiler, if you know a semicolon should be there…)
I decided that it would be fun to integrate Arduino controlled devices into the X-10 mix, and found Bills excellent tutorials to be very helpful.
Understanding the basics of (if X then Y) is the basic foundation of programming in any language!
Looking forward to your posts and experiences