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#1

Hello,

I think it’s time to introduce myself to the participants in the forum. My name is Emmanuel and I am from 

Bulgaria. I’m from the age of dinosaurs, I say that because I’m 63 years old. My programming experience was 

40 years ago when we were programming on Fortran and using punch cards.

Since then, until this year, I have not been seriously involved in programming.

Several years ago I decided to make an application - an electronic menu for restaurants. I downloaded 

Android Studio, but after a few months of unsuccessful fighting I realized I was not the person who would 

use Android Studio, I just did not get it.

I started to look for other alternatives and came to Corona Labs.

I started trying and it turned out that Corona SDK is a wonderful platform, except for games it can also be 

used for business applications.

Since then I have been in love with the Corona SDK and, of course, with the LUA.

Please excuse me beforehand if I ask stupid questions in my posts, but my programming experience is really 

small.

I also want to thank agramonte, vlads, nick sherman, who helped me with advice.

If I do not violate the rules of the forum I would like to give you a link: www.esgss.eu where you can see 

where the old man came with his application. If the link violates the rules, please the moderator delete it 

or let me know, I will remove it.

I wish many successes to all the friends from the forum.

My English is very bad, and if there are any inaccuracies in my text, be angry with the Google translator.

#2

Welcome to our wonderful developer community!

Corona has a history or appealing to developers of all ages. Welcome back to the world of development.

Rob

#3

Hello and welcome!

I imagine programming and software development in general have become a lot easier since you started. :smiley:

#4

Absolutely true, writing a code with Sublime Text and using Corona Simulator is an incomparable pleasure. I 

make a mistake and I can immediately see where I am wrong and change the code.

Forty years ago, each row of the code was on a separate punch card, and if we had to sum up the elements of 

a matrix, we went to the computing centre with one shoe box full of punch cards and the next day we had the 

result.

If everything with the code was wrong, we received a printout of the result.

If there was a mistake in the code, we had to scroll through the punch cards and replace the wrong one and 

go back to the computing centre for a next sample of the code.

I have saved a punch card as a memory and I will try to upload the picture here for those of you who have 

not seen such a thing. ( sorry but I not have permissions to upload pictures in future when I obtain the permissions

I upload the picture)

#5

You can upload photos. Click on the “More Reply Options” and there is a way to add attachments there.

I’m from the age of punch cards, 300 baud modems, and green-white paper as well.

It’s a much different world today.

Rob

#6

Thanks Rob. Here is the punch card.

#7

@bulcolimpex - I remember those!  I also had a 300 baud modem in the 80’s @rob ; )

#8

hi there… i’m Geeth. welcome to my “hello”. 

  i’m 13 years old. I’m still learning lua. now  i can some coding using lua and i will have ideal game maker in the future.i’m sure it. in  2 weeks i will publish my game. and download it. so now i end my reply. 

please LIKE me.

thank for watching…

GEETH…

#9

Welcome Geeth!

#10

tanks rob sir

#11

@bulcolimpex Have you tried Corona live builds?  It makes the old manual builds feel like punch cards.  Seriously, I can’t believe how much time I used to spend waiting for builds. 

I got to play around with punch cards in early elementary school but by the time I was ready to try programming, the local college had “upgraded” it’s machines to run Basic and they had programs to let kids spend time in the lab.

#12

wha can talk with me