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  • jsulmJ jsulm

    @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

    If mentioning here disturbs you

    No problem.
    I started learning Qt when I was working as student for a big German automotive company. It was an internal PyQt project in the 200x.
    Before that I learned programming mostly by reading books and writing small programs. But, I also want to mention the school (Gymnasium in Germany): we had good teachers for computer sciences! My first ever programming language was Basic, but at that time I had no idea what I was doing, just typing something the teacher told us and see what happens (that's why I usually refuse to "give code" to people here, they should learn and understand what they are doing :-)). 1996 my parents bought me my first PC and I started to learn programming using Turbo Pascal. Bit later Delphi. At some point I wanted to learn C++, because a teacher told us that this is what matters in real world :-) So, I used free version of C++ Builder and read the book from Stroustrup. I also learned x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work. That was really fun :-) At the university I also learned some Java and a bit Prolog. After study in my first real job I learned C# and some ASP.Net as that was used for an internal company project. Then again some Python, then C++ with Qt. Now, I'm again in automotive industry doing C++, but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).
    Currently thinking about what new programming language I should learn :-)

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    @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

    but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).

    Oh wow! Yet you are the most active poster in this forum?!

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      @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

      but without Qt (we stopped using Qt some years ago).

      Oh wow! Yet you are the most active poster in this forum?!

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      @JonB Am I? :-)
      I like Qt, you know :-)

      https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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      • jsulmJ jsulm

        @JonB Am I? :-)
        I like Qt, you know :-)

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        @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

        @JonB Am I? :-)

        No, but you are close: https://forum.qt.io/users?section=sort-posts :D

        Most active is Sam, and always has been.

        (Z(:^

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          @jsulm said in Since when did you start QT?:

          @JonB Am I? :-)

          No, but you are close: https://forum.qt.io/users?section=sort-posts :D

          Most active is Sam, and always has been.

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          @sierdzio
          Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!
          Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)
          Still I was surprised @jsulm says he has stopped using Qt.

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          • JonBJ JonB

            @sierdzio
            Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!
            Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)
            Still I was surprised @jsulm says he has stopped using Qt.

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            @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

            @sierdzio
            Yes, I felt bad after writing that that it might be Sam overall. Sorry!

            I'm not offended at all :-)

            Scarily I seem to have made a lot of posts, without necessarily knowing what I'm talking about :)

            Don't worry, it's still good contribution. It helps others and it does help you :-)

            When I was new here I was also answering a lot while knowing little. Somehow, in the meantime and without realizing, that helped me learn a lot, too.

            (Z(:^

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            • Thank YouT Thank You

              Just wanted to know
              When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂
              please add your experience before learning QT.

              Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
              FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

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              @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

              When did you peoples started learning QT ?

              2021

              Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂

              late 90s

              please add your experience before learning QT.

              started with Pascal on Mac. Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler, was forced to write code in JOVIAL for a widely unknown 2-cpu-system.
              Got frustrated by tons of legacy Solaris Motif-based C/C++ code and moved to the then holy grail Java with Swing.
              Now frustrated by JavaFX, the memory consumption and JVM deployment mess and the many platform-specific workarounds you now have to use with UI java.

              Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
              FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

              Tried Delphi and C++ Builder but the code for these apps always looked strange to me. Just my personal taste. And oh, I really hate scripting languages…

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                qt-3.x in the early 2000s.

                I'm a curmudgeony old fart.

                been coding since 1980ish (middle-school). started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers (because interpretted BASIC is hideously slow) Used to hack dialup systems with 300baud modem and hazeline adm3a CRT.

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                • Thank YouT Thank You

                  Just wanted to know
                  When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂
                  please add your experience before learning QT.

                  Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                  FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

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                  @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

                  When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂
                  please add your experience before learning QT.

                  In primary school and high school, I wrote simple scripts for games and small apps for my Casio graphics calculator.

                  I learnt formal programming when I was 21 (with an introductory course in C programming) and realized that I liked software engineering more than electrical engineering (which I was studying in university). Later that same year, I tried to learn other programming tools online (Java, SDL, GTK...) but didn't like any of them. I finally found Qt 4 and loved it immediately.

                  Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                  FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

                  I also learnt assembly and MATLAB as part of electrical engineering, but I don't use them anymore.

                  I mainly use Qt (C++ and QML) for my hobby projects, and LabVIEW for my day job (I wrote a comparison at https://forum.qt.io/topic/90276/showdown-qt-vs-labview/ ). I sometimes use Python and JavaScript + CSS + HTML.

                  All of these tools meet my current needs. I can easily integrate other C/C++ libraries into my Qt apps if necessary, and Python has a huge library selection. If someone shows me a compelling reason to try out one of the new tools/frameworks, I might tinker with it in my spare time. But right now, I have everything I need. New tools come and go regularly, so I don't try to learn them all.

                  Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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                  • JonBJ JonB

                    @koahnig said in Since when did you start QT?:

                    FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all

                    Brilliant! Somebody clearly older than me! ;-) Especially when they talk about "not remembering".....

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                    @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                    @koahnig said in Since when did you start QT?:

                    FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all

                    Brilliant! Somebody clearly older than me! ;-) Especially when they talk about "not remembering".....

                    I did not add yet that FORTRAN IV was my only formal programming course and we had to use punching cards for coding. This was begin 1980ies. No computer science at gymnasium (high school) during that time available at all.
                    IBM mainframe TSO was already a privilege for students to use, because somehow you needed to organize some user account which was not available for students.

                    The not remembering part was Commodore PET basic and its machine language (basically typying hex code into the machine). So you had to be your own assembler. Mass storage was a compact tape recorder.

                    Actually I started out with C, because the MS compilers were accompanied by an editor which was extendable with C. Also there was an option to combine FORTRAN with C on DOS machines, which did not work at all. Eventually I bit into the sour apple and switched completely to C.

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                      I started using Creator (purely for editing and building non UI applications) about 11 years ago. It was the best IDE I could find.

                      Started actually using Qt's libraries about 4 years ago; QML about 6 months ago.

                      Where does the time go...

                      As far as being attracted to other IDEs...

                      ...no.

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                        I spent early years , after finishing my university study defending my thesis "Design of private telephone network " , getting my paycheck by "designing " ( by Bell System Practices ) " 750KW jet propelled" emergency backup generator setup.
                        My first real computer job was to write a multistage long distance telephone network test software - in assembly - in 1973.
                        I had 8 bit "mini computer " with 4 kb - that is kilobytes - magnetic core memory card to fit my program into!
                        Then couple years of traveling , installing and "make it work" small business telephone switches. Next came "putting into service " Intel 8080 based one one the first telephone machines. Did not do any coding but lots of "manual patches" - again in assembly.
                        Then came "basic", "Visual Basic" "BORLAND c++ "....
                        My first "windoze" based commercial application was a flop. A small consulting company folded soon after the money made after very successfully designed and helped sell one of the first "treadmill" machines - with fancy LED display by your truly- including PCB layout . Way before "outorouter" software was invented.
                        So my money making years are done and nowadays I punish myself writing C++ code - a dubious hobby - allegedly for fun.

                        I went from Eclipse to Qt about 2 years ago , mainly for ease of GUI and
                        "real time" event processing .

                        I did dabble in MFC and must say Qt could do better , but I do not want to end this on sour note.

                        BTW
                        I still believe one should have "dream application in head " before picking up / choosing any learning tool / software language - u tube excluded.

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                          I spent early years , after finishing my university study defending my thesis "Design of private telephone network " , getting my paycheck by "designing " ( by Bell System Practices ) " 750KW jet propelled" emergency backup generator setup.
                          My first real computer job was to write a multistage long distance telephone network test software - in assembly - in 1973.
                          I had 8 bit "mini computer " with 4 kb - that is kilobytes - magnetic core memory card to fit my program into!
                          Then couple years of traveling , installing and "make it work" small business telephone switches. Next came "putting into service " Intel 8080 based one one the first telephone machines. Did not do any coding but lots of "manual patches" - again in assembly.
                          Then came "basic", "Visual Basic" "BORLAND c++ "....
                          My first "windoze" based commercial application was a flop. A small consulting company folded soon after the money made after very successfully designed and helped sell one of the first "treadmill" machines - with fancy LED display by your truly- including PCB layout . Way before "outorouter" software was invented.
                          So my money making years are done and nowadays I punish myself writing C++ code - a dubious hobby - allegedly for fun.

                          I went from Eclipse to Qt about 2 years ago , mainly for ease of GUI and
                          "real time" event processing .

                          I did dabble in MFC and must say Qt could do better , but I do not want to end this on sour note.

                          BTW
                          I still believe one should have "dream application in head " before picking up / choosing any learning tool / software language - u tube excluded.

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                          Ohhh! man Everyone are very old here 😂😂😂(don't be offended guys)
                          Because I hadn't met peoples who really coded in assembly as commercials and most of you have FORTRAN. Oh! This seems old for me too.
                          I feel I haven't learned much. There is long way to go 😉😉😉😊

                          Pascal , , assembler(like 1 course)
                          FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all
                          BASIC
                          x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work.
                          late 90s
                          Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler,
                          started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers
                          Casio graphics calculator.
                          IBM mainframe
                          Bell System Practices ) 750k Jet propelled

                          Wooooow! Sooo much exciting. Not even heard about some of the things here
                          Really So much interesting. You are the guys who made programming this easier for us

                          Let's make QT free or It will go forever

                          TRUE AND FALSE <3

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                            Ohhh! man Everyone are very old here 😂😂😂(don't be offended guys)
                            Because I hadn't met peoples who really coded in assembly as commercials and most of you have FORTRAN. Oh! This seems old for me too.
                            I feel I haven't learned much. There is long way to go 😉😉😉😊

                            Pascal , , assembler(like 1 course)
                            FORTRAN IV / 77, C, C++, assembler, do not remeber all
                            BASIC
                            x86 assembler at that time because I wanted to learn how CPUs actually work.
                            late 90s
                            Continued with Ada, C++98 and some SPARC assembler,
                            started on trash-80 model 1 and DEC minicomputers. learned BASIC, Fortran4, and numerous assemblers
                            Casio graphics calculator.
                            IBM mainframe
                            Bell System Practices ) 750k Jet propelled

                            Wooooow! Sooo much exciting. Not even heard about some of the things here
                            Really So much interesting. You are the guys who made programming this easier for us

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                            @Thank-You
                            I'm not sure you'd benefit much nowadays from picking up on some of the things we say we have used. IBM mainframes are going out of fashion, and there's no longer much demand for programming, say, a pocket calculator.
                            :D

                            What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

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                              @Thank-You
                              I'm not sure you'd benefit much nowadays from picking up on some of the things we say we have used. IBM mainframes are going out of fashion, and there's no longer much demand for programming, say, a pocket calculator.
                              :D

                              What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

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                              @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                              What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

                              ;) :D rofl

                              Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                              If not, maybe we should start it.

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                                @JonB said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                What you might learn from some of us oldies, however, is that it is quite usual to get more grumpy/irritable as you age....

                                ;) :D rofl

                                Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                If not, maybe we should start it.

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                                Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                If not, maybe we should start it.

                                It would never work...the mods would delete every post for being too annoying...

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                                  Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                  If not, maybe we should start it.

                                  It would never work...the mods would delete every post for being too annoying...

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                                  @mzimmers said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                  Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                  If not, maybe we should start it.

                                  It would never work...the mods would delete every post for being too annoying...

                                  It may work, if we pretend to be cats?

                                  Vote the answer(s) that helped you to solve your issue(s)

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                                    @mzimmers said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                    Is there already a blog called "The grumpy programmer"?
                                    If not, maybe we should start it.

                                    It would never work...the mods would delete every post for being too annoying...

                                    It may work, if we pretend to be cats?

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                                    @koahnig said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                    It may work, if we pretend to be cats?

                                    ^^ flagged for being annoying.

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                                      I do not believe "annoying" is the right word.
                                      Us old farts value our time ( we got grad-kids and "honey do this and honey do that " ) and when I ask "how much is one plus one "
                                      and get a lecture about binary system
                                      it gets to the point of limiting participation ( see the post about "why are less people here " ) .
                                      It seem that "educators" value "I do not know the answer, but I know where is a pile of rocks" approach.
                                      Another "annoying " approach seem to be norm - do not known how to fix it so let's buy a new one.

                                      If I could influence anybody - choosing software "development" as a life-time carrier - ( getting of subject ) - most of the "cool stuff" has been coded and some "learning curves" are no more then of ever increasing speed of "down spirals " .

                                      "Choose wisely .... grasshopper ..."

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                                        @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:
                                        

                                        Just wanted to know
                                        When did you people start learning QT?
                                        I have started it 53 days ago
                                        please add your experience before learning QT.
                                        Before Qt I just thing that creating GUI projects are difficult but I found it easier than using graphics.h header file in c++

                                        Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                                        FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI, C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative), Ionic etc.
                                        Nope, It is my first framework and before it i Just only know c,c++,data structure and creates project in the only
                                        I have published them in my Channel If you want to check my experience before you can see the project and identify me...
                                        https://youtu.be/F-55d7TX-aM

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                                        • Thank YouT Thank You

                                          Just wanted to know
                                          When did you peoples started learning QT ? Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂
                                          please add your experience before learning QT.

                                          Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                                          FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

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                                          @Thank-You said in Since when did you start QT?:

                                          When did you peoples started learning QT ?

                                          In uni, somewhere about 2007-2008. Physics is dry and tiring so I benefited from having a "safe place" (yes, it is sarcasm).
                                          At that point I had a significant understanding of C++ already, which made cruising through Qt a pleasure.

                                          Please mention your age when you started programming too. 😂😂

                                          10th grade or thereabouts - circa 2003.

                                          please add your experience before learning QT.

                                          A couple of projects or so, a few hobby/learning ones.

                                          Aren't you attracted by other easy frameworks (although they are not in c++) LIKE
                                          FLUTTER , REACT NATIVE , DELPHI , C++ BUILDER (not easy but alternative) , Ionic etc.

                                          Nope.

                                          Read and abide by the Qt Code of Conduct

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