Comments on: patrickgillespie.com – What Should I Do With It?

By: Bail Bonds Los Angeles

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By: patorjk

patorjk — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:13:56 +0000

hey Chris,

It depends on what kind of programming you think he’d be interested in. Right now I’m really into scripting languages (JavaScript and Tcl), however, I wouldn’t recommend JavaScript unless you think he wants to do web development and I’m not sure I’d recommend Tcl unless you’d think he’d be interested in gluing together the functionality of various programs.

Flash is a lot of fun, and its ActionScript programming language shares the same core as JavaScript. Back in 2004 I read the official book from MacroMedia and it was really good, but the current version doesn’t have good reviews on Amazon.

Microsoft’s current .NET stuff can be downloaded for free here (I’ve played around with C# a little and it seemed really neat):

http://www.microsoft.com/express/

I don’t know of any good books for it though, since I haven’t gotten around to the new stuff yet.

If you opt to go with JavaScript, my favorite JavaScript book is “ppk on JavaScript”:

http://www.quirksmode.org/book/

By: chris

chris — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:38:09 +0000

Patrick,

As like you I used to code aol Progs back in the day and being good friends with HaVok and sk8 it was fun. Now that I am 31yrs and mature with kids of my own, I am wanting to teach my 10yr old nephew how to program. He is very smart and I know he can do this. Its very hard to explain things to him that he may understand,specially since I haven’t coded anything in like 17 years. I pretty far outside the loop for things, heck I can barely remember any API programming. If you have any software or books that we can recommend to me I would greatly appreciate it. I am not looking for him to become the next Kevin, just a good start to lead to a great career later in his future

Thank You

By: Patrick Gillespie

Patrick Gillespie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:03:41 +0000

This comment is probably a day late and a dollar short but…

Sorry bastard. With a name like that?

I never liked Patrick as a name. I’m also the last Gillespie in a long line of Gillespies (my line). I only have daughters. I joke with my wife – why not change our names. What the hell?

So… have you guessed it? My name is also Patrick Gillespie.

Check out my blog, Patrick.

It’s at http://poemshape.wordpress.com/

If you come up to Vermont, look me up. I’ll buy you a beer. Seriously. What’s your birthday? And we’re probably related…

By: patorjk

patorjk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:28:01 +0000

DeAnn – Thanks for the input. That’s a good idea and I’ll probably aim for something like that. Right now I have a neat idea for an interface, I just have to pin down what exactly I want to be there. It definitely wont be work related though.

By: DeAnn (er, Shannon)

DeAnn (er, Shannon) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:46:33 +0000

Why not combine all of those ideas? Make it completely personal and fun. Leave out any reference to work. Have different sections for different things, plus a link here. I really like the idea of making it a hub for other Patrick Gillespie’s out there.

By: patorjk

patorjk — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:20:05 +0000

local – Conspiracies are always fun.

By: local

local — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:03:40 +0000

Make a conspiracy page…

-Brian

By: patorjk

patorjk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:40:03 +0000

Apparently they pretty popular (based on a google search I did a few seconds ago), however, I suck at taking photos.

By: sloat

sloat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:32 +0000

What about a photo blog? I dunno what that entails…but it sounds cool, right?