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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I understood it. It just seems circular but I know it has to be.
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Good observation
It is indeed circular. It doesn't run from top to bottom, but in a circle, and everything runs all the time. The code itself is rarely complex. It actually is very easy most of the time. The circular part and having everything run all at once is what makes it difficult.
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Must ask on your jars and boxes, do you have a code for human behavior?
There is a show here called "Dirty Jobs" and I could see the host messing up the box loading.
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I know the series. They had some jobs in there I didn't even know existed :X
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I did once write a program in BASIC. It was a strobe light. Does that make me an engineer??? Please know I am just kidding on the engineer part.
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Everybody starts out like this
My first "program" was a menu to start games. (Press 1 to start Arcade F1. Press 2 to start Prince of Persia.) The fracking menu actually took more space and memory than some of the games
One of my earliest real programs from 1990 or 1991 was a front-end for pkzip/unzip. It basically had one (1) useful line of code: the one that executed the command-line to actually zip or unzip something. The rest of the program was the front-end, and error handling. I used it for years, until I switched to OS/2 and later Windows NT, and it worked well.
I found it 10 years ago during a cleanout, and took a look at the code before throwing out those 15 year old floppies. I really wanted to have a look at the extreme smartness of my past self.
This is the closest approximation, as it's impossible to describe:
I'm still amazed it actually worked at all