Published on 12, July, 2020
There seems to be no other Thread (upon NAS) discussing this as a Topic, or Hobby, or its fancies... despite everyone who can read this actually doing it or using it.
I hear you, Robert124.
Have you tried switching yourself off and on again
I am computer science teacher....or "nerd herder"
Hey....its a valid subject....
MATHEMSTICS is the dark art of mathematics whilst being covered in the natural resin from the pistacia lentiscus tree* (*mastic)
Modern technology, tiny smartphone keyboards. Spelling corrector turned OFF. Because it keeps changing what I mean to write.
Robert124 said:MATHEMSTICS
typo?
Well, it's from old-fashioned typewriters. If you send those control characters to character-oriented daisy wheel printers, you can see them behaving just like an old typewriter. So it's perfectly logical, because of the evolutionary nature of the technology involved.
You're welcome.
FWIW, the code that CPUs execute is something else entirely. We've just been talking about ASCII on this thread.
A Manual ASCII (American Standard Code Information Interchange) Code to Text Table:
032 = space
033 = !
034 = "
035 = #
036 = $
037 = %
038 = &
039 = '
040 = (
041 = )
042 = *
043 = +
044 = ,
045 = -
046 = .
047 = /
048 = 0
049 = 1
050 = 2
051 = 3
052 = 4
053 = 5
054 = 6
055 = 7
056 = 8
057 = 9
058 = :
059 = ;
060 = <
061 = =
062 = >
063 = ?
064 = @
065 = A and 097 = a
066 = B and 098 = b
067 = C and 099 = c
068 = D and 100 = d
069 = E and 101 = e
070 = F and 102 = f
071 = G and 103 = g
072 = H and 104 = h
073 = I and 105 = i
074 = J and 106 = j
075 = K and 107 = k
076 = L and 108 = l
077 = M and 109 = m
078 = N and 110 = n
079 = O and 111 = o
080 = P and 112 = p
081 = Q and 113 = q
082 = R and 114 = r
083 = S and 115 = s
084 = T and 116 = t
085 = U and 117 = u
086 = V and 118 = v
087 = W and 119 = w
088 = X and 120 = x
089 = Y and 121 = y
090 = Z and 122 = z
091 = [ 123 = {
092 = \ 124 = |
093 = ] 125 = }
094 = ^ 126 = ~
095 = _
096 = `
Or else an automatic ASCII to Text or Text to ASCII conversion table website link:
http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/ascii/
Along with the links:
community.autism.org.uk/.../online-community---comments-improvements-and-feedback
And:
community.autism.org.uk/.../autistic-people-on-the-n-a-s-internet-and-how-to-use-it-2
There was also:
http://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/9041/a-change-for-the-worse
About the sub thread's. This is familiar to me.
I am also on a photographer forum, where someone starts a thread. Then other people join, then the thread takes unexpected directions at a tangent and we end up discussing something which has no relation to the original topic!!!
Gladdie Tidings to Laddie... and to the Mathematical-Mr.Robert... This Internet business is still surprising to me... in ways I dare not write here (!)
I acknowledge this new "Sub-Thread" because someone said the word BASIC. I, as they say, "cut my teeth", upon this language, yet Fortran would have been industrial (expensive) beyond my reach (as a teenager/child)...
I was a "Bedroom Coder". It is tempting, here, to begin a new Thread reminiscing such old days... but, well... I do not know what else to say...
Dragon 32! And Commodore 64! Spectrum 48k was my enemy!
Yet nowadays... C and C+ are all I can only *think* of using...
This reply is primarily to Mister DongFeng5:I Post two more (NAS) Links.
... this is (apparently) "direct" to NAS. Be aware that it is VERY long by now.
... this is a sort of Sequel to a Thread which some strange-and-almost-deleted person began (!), because their first Thread became too long. To Mr. DongFeng5, unless I am mistaken, you are a newer member than myself...? Yet I have only been here 3 Months thus far, and have learnt much, with nervousness and harsh lessons...(I also Post the links to anyone reading this Thread who might be unaware of those other Threads. Both Threads contain a lot of different perspective (and problems).)To Mr.DongFeng5 again... have a look towards the end of both Threads, and you may see Replies Posted by someone called "WebPM"; he is often referred to as another NAS-Moderator, yet is very different. To answer certain curiosities concerning this Forum, there are some answers/clues... and you may have a go at trying to "Friend" WebPM... which I cannot do (I can't send Private Messages, E-Mail or such like)...I finish with a word of caution, perhaps. In deducing how this Site/Forum *actually* works, Please don't discuss it in public (i.e.- like this Post here is), or else NAS shall become VERY cross (i.e.- angry and delete all of us!)...
Yep I used punched cards at Uni. The computer was massive and filled a room!
Good memories of Fortran. First language i was taught. Started with punched cards, wrapped in elastic bands and proper lineprinter printouts
Moved onto Basic, Pascal, integrated development environments and the modern junk.
Thanks DC I have learned something I never knew. You guys are very clever you know! I'm very impressed.
All I ever learnt was Basic and Fortran back in the dinosaur days of the 70's.
My attempts at replying on the post I made just don't go through (found this post by looking through search).
MATHEMSTICS IS HARD????
The words easy and hard are relative and depend on the circumstances.
Many years ago I was doing a one year adult computing course which included a maths module.
Half the class failed the maths module and were asked to resit the exam. At a stormy meeting with the head of the course they compained that the maths module and exam were too hard. He rejected their complaints and told them bluntly that they were just not good enough. The ringleader of this rebel group was an ex secondary school maths teacher.
He may have been a qualified maths teacher who found school maths easy. But this maths module was too difficult for even him.
Love the fact that so where above you posted the code for “carriage return”, a properly archaic term, I love incongruities like that.
Thank you for taking the time to try to explain what was going on with the code, can’t say I understand it totally but now I have some idea what it’s about. Of course I was aware that computers run on code but had never seen it or really thought about it. It all sounds very interesting, maybe one day I’ll have time to look into it.
At the moment I’m learning to read music and play bass guitar, how to properly use an iPad and various drawing programmes and how to use image manipulation software (not Photoshop) to turn my paintings into fabric designs so I’m all out of brain space. I live in hope of actually turning some of my talents into a small income and perhaps feeling like less of a non person.
A peaceful 2018 to all.
You are absolutely right, Robert124.
Initially I was going to provide both the hex and ascii versions of those control characters, but then I thought it was better to stick with hex.
I must have deleted the wrong constant, and then stuck an 0x in front! Stupid.
I'll correct the post.