Member Programming Info

[John Barrus]

Ok, hopefully this will benefit any future project cooperation between any members of UTI. List your programming level in basic, asm, and any specialties you have (graphic artist, engines, storyline creator, optimizer, etc.)

Basic: Advanced

Asm: Beginner

Specialties: Uh, nothing really...

[Justin W.]

Well for the ti83+

Basic: Master
Asm: Intermediate(some people say I'm pre-guru )

Good at optimizations,programming, and some graphical work.

[NETWizz]

Basic: Guru
Asm: Depends on what I am coding.

[Arcane Wizard]

Basic: ok to maybe some master/guru/whatever-ish

ASM: trying to get the %*^*& tuturial examples to work, ie. beginner/none

[Darth Android]

BASIC: guru
Asm:learning (i now know enough to make my calculator crash! )
Abilities: Optimization, light graphical work, engines,GUIs

[yugniht]

BASIC:Guru/master/advanced...what's the difference, I guess it depends on your self image
Assembly:practically none
Specialties: well, I am learning VB

[Adm.Wiggin]

BASIC : Guru, Master, etc. (all those dumb names everyone uses even when they aren't them [except for some exceptions of course ])
Asm : Intermediate (and declining)
Specialties : Basic : Optomizing, Asm : None really... (unless overall coding counts )

[SniperOfTheNight]

Basic:Master(Guru someday,hopefully soon)

ASM:Beginner

Specialties:Whatever,I'm good at almost everything

[62 52 53 53]

Basic: master
Asm: beginner(aka: pitifully bad)
Specialties:
Really wierd programs(basic)
crashing calcs(asm)
math progs
making stuff up when I am clueless(ever try to RLE compress a list in basic, because you want to encrypt the list. Yeah, that's right, I am crazy.)

[NETWizz]

Amazing, you have learned to crash a calculator using assembly.

I think I learned how to do that accidentally. Actually, I think my first asm program crashed.

[Adm.Wiggin]

when i first started in basic i made the following prog :

[62 52 53 53]

I actually made a random 4 byte one which didn't crash once...

[Adm.Wiggin]

it must have ended with C9 then... otherwise, ur very lucky!

[Pascal]

Basic: mastered
asm: learing on my way

[Jeremiah Walgren]

Basic: Between beginner and intermediate.

Asm: Nothing really, but starting on learning Flash.

Specials: Intermediate 89 Basic.

[Xan]

Basic: master/guru....

ASM: I started to learn to program but then i didn't continue learning, so: beginner :lol:

Specialties: optimizing programs from others, visual basic programming, (m)irc scripting, a little bit flash, hacking ti-websites... (only a joke )

[Justin W.]

Wow we don't have many people who are at an advanced level of asm programming.

Well I guess that means the more people JBirk,David, and I get to help, and the select few who are intermediate asm.

[John Barrus]

Yes, to have this group really be successful, we all need to make the effort to learn more (especially asm).
Being a basic guru might impress your friends, but it doesn't matter when everyone else in your programming group are gurus, too.

[NETWizz]

We all have our strenghts and weaknesses.

For example, Justin W is the Grey Scale, Tile Mapping, sprites, and scrolling guy.

I speciallize in the wierd stuff such as home hooks, rawkeyhooks, getkeyhooks, interrutps, direct lcd communication, direct input, link stuff, and I know a few little tid bits such as how to figure out where you are in the catalog, how to figure out what menu you are in when in TI-OS, How to detect on directly, and I like to do the wierd.

For example, I know how to block the self test, block the del key, only when in the mem/manage/del.

I spent way to much time studying hooks. At this moment, I am thinking about writeing a hot bar program or routine for Nimbus where the user holds down ON and presses Y=...Graph to launch a predetermined program.

I am also qutite good with the sym table. e.g. I learned from David how to manually detect hidden programs on the fly. He figured it out by reading app guru.

FYI, I wrote a stupid little program that makes all your programs lowercase.

I was also working on an improved undelete program for the archive, but I have not done worked on that in a while.

Still, somewhere, I wrote down the format of how it is stored. Put simply, you mess with flash, and I will use bcall(_flashtoram) to recover.

Eventually, I plan to make a security app, an program to make the calculator run slower by calling interrupts, a task killer, a task switcher, a multitasker, a file manager with group variable reader (I still have to figure out the format of the group), I plan to treat the archive and ram as a different drive e.g. Exploring Ram, Exploring Flash.

I wish to have options to show hidden programs or not, protect/unprotect, hide/unhide, and compress/uncompress.
I have not started this, but I will after NimbusOS.

Now, take David, he appears to know almost everything; in fact, there is nobody on this forum that knows as much asm as David.

Finally, there are those who everyone knows such as Michal Vincent (worte an app for TI; made $$$), made many apps to show off his tallent.
Knows about the same as Dan E; has even wrighten his own real OS

Dan Englender, this guy knows it all. He knows all about flash, protecting, unprotecting, certificates, secret entry points, hooks, system monitor, putaway, appvectors, secret flags, et cetera. It is scarry to think someone knows as much as he does. I would venture to say that nobody employed by TI is likely to know as much as Dan E.

We all have one thing is common. If we want to do something bad enough, we have the resources to learn what we need to do to do it.
For example, I have no idea how to make greyscale, but I could with a little help write my own routine once I figured out the concepts of how it works.

[Arcane Wizard]

So, you also need to state any not calculator related stuff like c++, html, java etc. ?