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Offline CammyTopic starter

Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« on: July 17, 2011, 11:34:37 PM »
Hi everyone. Would you like to learn, brush up on, or teach Amiga programming? AmigaE and PortablE are excellent programming languages for the Amiga, and many top quality applications and games have been written in this language. I am learning to program in it myself, and so are a few others, while some of the more experienced coders help out by teaching us and explaining how things work.

We have regular meetings around this time (check the time I posted this and it should show the appropriate time for your time zone) every Sunday/Monday (check the date of my post, it's Monday for me in Australia but Sunday still for SamuraiCrow). Our meetings are in the #Amiga channel on the Freenode IRC network.

If you're online at the moment and would like to join in, learn to program and chat about some development projects, please drop by!

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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 02:23:53 AM »
Thanks for the invite Cammy! I will surely check this out. I'm an old (very) Assembly programmer.  Rog.....
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 02:46:22 AM »
Cammy you are an angel. I will look into this when I get home because I am looking for a new project to sink my teeth into.
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2011, 11:34:06 PM »
Hi everyone! Just a reminder that our AmigaE game programming class is on again today, so join #AmigaE on irc.freenode.net now if you want to pick up some pointers or help out.

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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2011, 12:52:22 AM »
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Hi everyone! Just a reminder that our AmigaE game programming class is on again today, so join #AmigaE on irc.freenode.net now if you want to pick up some pointers or help out.

Thanks!

I don't code in E but it is a very beautiful and logical language.

So I am with you in spirit. :angel:
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2011, 09:18:44 PM »
Thanks for the support, ChaosLord! :)

Our programming class is on again right now if anyone would like to join in. We're currently working on getting our adventure game library code to work in PortablE as well as AmigaE, so it can be compiled for Aros as well as classic Amigas.

Please join in if you're curious about learning one of the best languages for writing games and applications on the Amiga!
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2011, 09:41:24 PM »
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Thanks for the support, ChaosLord! :)

Our programming class is on again right now if anyone would like to join in. We're currently working on getting our adventure game library code to work in PortablE as well as AmigaE, so it can be compiled for Aros as well as classic Amigas.

Please join in if you're curious about learning one of the best languages for writing games and applications on the Amiga!

I am visiting my Grandson in Mountain View at the moment, but would love to attend your next meeting, so please let me know in advance, when it will be happening.
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2011, 06:06:58 PM »
I got AmigaE on one of the CU amiga cover disks, still have it, but I can't program for squat.
Anyway, there was a program written with AmigaE. It was a simple program showing "A1200" 3D logo spinning in the workbench background, do anyone knows where to find it? I'm looking for it for ages.
I hope someone knows what I'm talking about.
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2011, 01:26:04 PM »
@AmigaDave

I've been getting onto the IRC chatroom around 2PM Sundays CDT.  If you're on PDT that's noon on Sunday.

BTW, the orignal post says the #amiga channel.  That's incorrect, it's the #amigae channel.
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2011, 02:26:36 PM »
Is AmigaE a fully OO language like .net
 
Are there plenty of class libs to use for everyhting you need ?
 
is it it similar in syntax to C ?
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2011, 03:55:51 PM »
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Is AmigaE a fully OO language like .net
 Are there plenty of class libs to use for everyhting you need ?
 is it it similar in syntax to C ?

Object oriented??  I hope not.. I got out of serious programming just before that became popular..
Let's google..

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Amiga E is a combination of many features from a number of languages, but follows the original C programming language  most closely in terms of basic concepts.
Nice..  So far so good..

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Amiga E's main benefits are  fast compilation (allowing it to be used in place of a scripting  language), very readable source code, flexible type system, powerful  module system, exception handling (not C++ variant)
Wow.. I like the sound of that..

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and Object oriented programming.
D'oh!

:(  :lol:

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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2011, 04:09:49 PM »
Nowt wrong with OO and types are a part of that,  types are  classes are objects
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2011, 05:19:54 PM »
Is PortablE being covered?
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2011, 06:36:44 PM »
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Object oriented??  I hope not.. I got out of serious programming just before that became popular..
Well, the good OOP languages (i.e. C++) just have it as a delicious garnish on top of a perfectly suitable procedural language for easy, clean packaging of structs and their associated functions. It's the ones that try to force you into using classes for everything whether or not it suits what you're doing because this is an OOP language, dammit! that are to be avoided.

(Can't speak for how E is in this regard, but if it's C-based I'm betting it's pretty easy-going about it all.)
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Re: Learn to program Amiga applications and games in #AmigaE
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2011, 06:57:45 PM »
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Object oriented??  I hope not.. I got out of serious programming just before that became popular..
And what exactly is wrong with object orientation?
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