ColdServed 0 Newbie Poster

Hello everybody,

I am ColdServed (Real name is Roy Drissen), a Dutch male living in the Netherlands. My hobby is robotics and programming. The reason for joining is to refresh my knowlegde of C programming.

I got my thesis in software engineering 15 years ago. Back then I made programs in COBOL, C, C++, Prime Assembler, Pascal, and SQL. I started my career as an account manager. Being commercial active for many years I started to program again as a hobby. cos' I had the need of creating instead of just making money. I suppose, once a engineer always a engineer lol.

Allthough I still like my job as an account manager selling IT solutions, my goal is to develop robots and maybe make a living out of it. If it does not work I still have a great hobby.

Being out of the bits and bytes arena for some time, I discovered that nothing realy has changed in relation to programming. i.e. object orientation sounds as the standard today. But it is nothing fundamental different from the way I wrote code in the end of the 80's. Only languages today support better object orientation. Having played with Java, I came to the conclusion that it is better for me to stick to the traditional languages such as C (Not C++). Only PHP is a new language I really like.

The one thing that really changed is the way of learning and communicating. Now I can refresh my skills thanks to communities like DaniWeb. I look forward to share experiences and learn from fellow members.

I hope to get in order to give,:)

Regards,

ColdServed