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Hello everyone, I am new here. I was hoping that some of you could offer your insight. I am interested in learning to code, for a few reasons. One is to seriously change careers and the other is for personal fulfillment in my hobbies. I have even considered the idea of doing free lance work someday, but first things first. To let all of you understand what I know and better what I want to know, I will start off by stating that I fiddled around with a Texas Instruments computer as a kid. I learned some of it's basic functions like, go to, run, print, etc. I have also learned some things on CodeAcademy's website, using Python. I have never worked much with an IDE, interpreter or compiler. I am aware of concepts like source code and machine code, but don't know how to make use of them. I became frustrated on CodeAcademy when I realized I was going through the steps to program to create a tip calculator. One of my frustrations with learning that way is that it begins to feel like brute force memorization, without any practical application. I find necessity a better teacher than memorizing "useless" facts. All I took away from these experiences was that there is a set of words and symbols that have definitions and that they need to be put into a proper order, with the right punctuation, metaphorically speaking. I believe they call that syntax. I started learning the concept of things like variables or arrays. Where I struggled with this was understanding how these parts of the program would apply to what I ultimately would like to achieve. I find it difficult to picture where these parts would go into the lines of code or how all of the lines would be put into order. I get the impression, unlike writing a story, the order of the code isn't necessarily strictly relegated to one order. It is like in math, where 4x6 or 6x4 is basically the same thing. It ends up having the same value or function. I started doing some more research and I discovered that there are two types of languages, one imperative and the other declarative. I reached a state of confusion when realizing I had interest in a program both being able to describe what computation should be performed and how to compute it. I am really confused now as to what language or languages I should even try to learn or how I should try to learn them. I am not interested in sitting through classes or reading books that explain to me what I already know. I am looking to move forward, but I am not interested in trying to learn by brute force memorization. If it is helpful, I am interested in data analysis of chess related and mathematical nature and data storage and retrieval. I welcome any advice.

Hello fellow programmers! Does anyone has a good suggestion for exporting and doing statistics on your games? I'm dreaming of a kind of GUI that lets me import (into this "data center"'s database) my recent games (and maybe others) from c.c (and maybe others : lichess, ....) select a subset among all of the games: in a given time range, for given Time Control (specific or all that is "Blitz" or "Rapid" or ....) whether I lost or won find out for which time of day and/or day of week ; and/or which opening/defense against which defense/opening and/or which Time Control(s) ... I have best/worst results and/or what statistics (win/loss due to checkmate ? timeout ? ...)

FRC has 3 primary options for programming a robot. Labview, C, and Java. What are the pros and cons of each. As an aside, I am primarily putting this out there to get some more activity in this group. Feel free to start your own topics.

To get things going I though it would be a good idea to list the languages we use or would like to use to see what kind of similarities everyone has. I mainly work with Visual Basic right now, and I will be learning others as part of my degree. I have tampered with many others such as C and HTML, but I havn't done anything noteworthy.

I am glad to see some new members. I encourage everyone to participate in any vote chess matches that are going on and if there are any challenges you would like to see, then send a message to one of the admins. I also encourage you to use these forums to share source code and tips on programming. Have fun!

Hi folks. I just wanted to see if anybody here has done any serious or semi-serious work in developing chess engines. I am well up on the theory -- alpha-beta search algorithms and position evaluators and related stuff -- but I am not sure what tools are out there to help with this process. Aside from using pre-existing code like the gnu chess engine (which is written in C, which I find to be an annoying language to work with), I thought it would be good to use publicly available board rendering from .pgn files and the like. I am curious about writing an amateurish chess-playing engine. Anybody with recommendations?

Hmm... Somehow, I ended up getting assigned the role of Super-Admin role for this group. I'm really not sure that this is something I am ready to do at the moment. Is anybody in the group interested in the role?

Has anyone here programmed any mobile apps, specifically, Windows Phone ones? I am going to give it a try for the WP7 Marketplace.

Has anyone tried blitz basic? blitzbasic.com?

If anyone has ideas for team matches, please post them here. On another note...we are currently looking for two more players to join the current open team match under the team match link. If there is interest in another match being created, let me know.

Right now there are 3 people signed up for our vote chess match against chess unlimited. They probably have around 57 people signed up. Their group is much larger, but if anyone else would like to help out we could use it. Feel free to invite any of your friends who like programming to join our group also.