General Music Chat

Good week for the jets also,,,, bye week didnt have to lose ,,ehrm ah, I mean play.

I had to go to college to learn about flow charts, & here you are giving the info away for free!

I remember making hundreds of the damned things in the 80's; I haven't done a flow chart in twenty years.

Back in the stone ages in high school I took a computer class and we planned programs with flow charts and the computer used fortran! If anybody knows what that is they'll get a good laugh. We used to run stacks of punch cards through this monstrosity of a computer and hoped and prayed we didn't type the wrong character into one or two of the cards. We couldn't even imagine what computers would become and cell phones were science fiction (beam me up Scotty!).

FORTRAN was the first programming class I took (1985). Variants of it still exist, used mostly in scientific and engineering disciplines.

Thats cool Paul, Inever thought about flowcharting a song, but it makes sense to see how the ryhme scheme and everything fits together.

When I was in college it was COBALT if I remember right. Im about as computor illiterate as I was then. One of my best friends wanted me to go in a partnership with him. He wound up selling his ideas out to Apple and I think stays in Tahiti these days. I wish I had signed on with him, duh the mistakes we make along the way.

Workers' Comp had me taking Assembler, C & COBOL at the same time with Data Mgmt. I dropped out...

Holy overload Phil, no wonder you dropped out. I never took more than two comp sci classes at a time, you need to balance the work.

Yeah, I had no intention of living in the computer lab...besides, the college wanted to limit my time in there!

LOL - the prof teaching C had no idea about it. He spent most of his time reading the manuals, & the class was fulla nerds what knew EVERYTHING already...I was so outclassed!

It was a losing proposition for me all around.

WC wanted me to complete an associate degree in a single summer session, too.

That's when I decided it would be much better for me to just play music for a living, & I went into this huge writing & performing stretch...I wonder what happened with all of that...