Re: Hey, LastFuture

On Wed, 02 May 2001 02:17:34 GMT, Kyle <k_m...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Michael D. Phillips" wrote:
>> 
>> Kyle Baker wrote:
>> > Have you ever programmed before?  I think that this game may have
>> > potential.  If you could answer a few of those questions, I may consider
>> > attempting to program it in some of my spare time.
>> > Kyle
>> I would like to help you out in the project.  There are some questions
>> that need to be asked.  Like the following:
>> 
>>         Is this a game or an utility program?
----mainly a game but could also include learning mode and utility.
>>         What is the main goal of the program or utility?
----to correct incorrect ascii art, to smoothen lines, to hand-asciify
bitmaps... all that stuff..
>>         What language do you want to program this in?
----i thought to base it upon jave like it's good for editing ascii
images.
>>         What platform is this going to be for?
----if it's java or perl it's for all platforms.. otherwise we have to
do it for windows i guess.
>
>These questions would be best answered by Last Future (I don't know
>where he dissapeared to though.)  It was going to be a game, but we

Here I am I'm just terribly busy...

>could combine it with a utility program maybe.  It was going to be
>something with shifting an image into place.  Eliminating tabs for
>example.  Perl sounds good, but I don't know it.  I am currently taking
>a C class and VB class.  I find them both very simple, but I am not sure
>how deep my knowledge really is.  It would be cool if we could make it
>for multiple platforms.  I don't know how much help I can be, I will be
>gone this summer.  It sounds like we could probably get a lot of
>different people to help.  We need to get a site set up or something. 
>We could do an open source.  What do you think?  Really we need Last
>Future's permission for all this though.  He was the first to mention
>it.

I wouldn't call it permission, i just had an idea and as i am busy i
rather not program it so it's a newsgroup project and everybody is
free to throw in ideas or criticise it..
open source is perfect for this project.

>> 
>> I think that Bateau is correct in saying that Perl is most likely the
>> best language.  Perl is something that I just picked up about 3 or 4
>> month ago.  Any language is easy to learn the basic if you have a good
>> programming foundation.

i dont know if it's possible to hand-edit ascii arrays like in jave..
if it is, perl is our thing :)

>Cool.  Wish I knew it.  Where would you get a compiler?
>> 
>> My programming experience:
>> Advance Programming in Think Pascal (High School Level)
>> Couple of months in Turbo Pascal (Self Learned)
>> Borland C++ (College Level)
>> Several Months of Perl (Self Learned)
>> Scripting Language (Self Learned)
>
>Good, now we just need to get started.  Are you good with algorithms?
>
>Kyle

with the algorythms we could ask the ppl of the bitmap to ascii
contest they could know more
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