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Joined: 02/08/2019
Location: DenmarkPosts: 109
| Posted: 04:33pm 02 Dec 2020 |
Jim, what is the issue with your arm? If I may ask.
I am getting the cast off in 10 days, then 10 years of rehabilitation
Regarding my programming skills: I never recieved any training or courses in programming. I took my master's degree in biotechnology. I work in microbiology. Some years ago I decided to learn about programming - mostly due to video games.
Several years ago I made the "first Danish arcade game" which was later sold to an arcade in Copenhagen. After that I made a program that calculate bacterial counts from plated dilution ranges along with count uncertainty presented in CFU and %. I recently released a game on Steam as well, and I am working on another game right now - and also a physical microcontroller-based bacterial count calculator for use directly in the lab to avoid having to write down/bring results out of the lab for later calucation. This is where I used millis() to do the button presses.
My point is, I have many hobbies - and sub-hobbies. I am not afraid of the difficult stuff - I just try to find the easiest path with some projects. It would not be fair to compare my programming skills to people that are professional programmers. Unless it also goes the other way, such as "how would you make a bacteria competent and how would you introduce new DNA into the bacterial cell? By transduction, transformation or conjugation?".
So, it probably was a wrong assumption to make - that BASIC had a more direct way of doing it, that would be shorter and easier than a low-level language. But I will do it the correct way
Thanks guys - I love this forum and its users! Especially when they push me. Tomorrow I'll probably take it all back when I realize I was wrong.
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Edited 2020-12-03 02:33 by Decoy