05-05-2010, 11:38 PM
I think it's hard to determine what single feature will create a giant influx of players at this point, so it would be nice if our devs spent any portion of their free time making those here happier 
. (Errrr hopefully nobody reads that as me saying that I think the devs have to give all their free time to IN-X, I am trying to say whatever they feel like giving).
Yes, I did study electronics (the program was called electronics technology, not electrical/electronics engineering) but we did very little C. In fact, of the very little C we did, most of it was spent programming the serial port of a computer to do communication between two PCs. The goal of the course was to program a fully functioning go-back-n protocol but there wasn't enough time so we were only able to do single text file transfers from one computer to another. On the receiving computer the teacher supplied the file to check that we programmed the header of each packet properly and that the content of the file was correctly received.
The electronics I studied in College was mostly analog electronics (making amplifiers out of resistors, capacitors, inductors, and a few IC's) and digital electronics (making circuits like half adders, full adders, 0 to 15 counters, 3 to 8 converters to control 7-segment LED's, etc out of various IC's). We also had a course covering all the parts of a computer in-depth, and networking courses. In our final year we wired an 8-bit microprocessor with a 64k Rom chip, a 64k Ram chip, a serial and parallel interface, other chips to make it all work together, etc. But the programming part of this was done using ASM and not C.
If Taran is looking for more devs, I suggest he contacts Luda Krishna who has in the past offered to do some scripting for IN-X and studied C and other programming languages more then me.
. (Errrr hopefully nobody reads that as me saying that I think the devs have to give all their free time to IN-X, I am trying to say whatever they feel like giving).Yes, I did study electronics (the program was called electronics technology, not electrical/electronics engineering) but we did very little C. In fact, of the very little C we did, most of it was spent programming the serial port of a computer to do communication between two PCs. The goal of the course was to program a fully functioning go-back-n protocol but there wasn't enough time so we were only able to do single text file transfers from one computer to another. On the receiving computer the teacher supplied the file to check that we programmed the header of each packet properly and that the content of the file was correctly received.
The electronics I studied in College was mostly analog electronics (making amplifiers out of resistors, capacitors, inductors, and a few IC's) and digital electronics (making circuits like half adders, full adders, 0 to 15 counters, 3 to 8 converters to control 7-segment LED's, etc out of various IC's). We also had a course covering all the parts of a computer in-depth, and networking courses. In our final year we wired an 8-bit microprocessor with a 64k Rom chip, a 64k Ram chip, a serial and parallel interface, other chips to make it all work together, etc. But the programming part of this was done using ASM and not C.
If Taran is looking for more devs, I suggest he contacts Luda Krishna who has in the past offered to do some scripting for IN-X and studied C and other programming languages more then me.