Tony G.'s Homepage

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Disclaimer

This page, when completed, will contain material considered dangerous to people who do not want to spend hours and hours on the Internet! The maintainer of this page is not responsible for any damage caused by people going nuts because his page is so addictive!
This background was supposed to represent lightning bolts (my favourite power symbol) and was downloaded from Texture Land. Personally I think it looks like lava. I would like to thank Andrew Griffin and his homepage for all their help (past and future) in the construction of this homepage.

Guyana and Me



This is the flag of my native country, Guyana, which is in South America and yes the image is linked to my Guyanese website. The site has links to other Guyanese web pages and e-mail addresses of some of my Guyanese friends on the Internet.
My name is Clarence Garraway and I am in England doing a course in Computer Science at The University Of York. Somehow, when I tell people here where I'm from they always think I said "Ghana". Is it my West Indian accent or have they never heard of it before? Anyway I'm currently in my second year and enjoying it. I'm 20 years old which I think is rather old for a second year but it had to be this way 'cos I had to wait a year for my A-Level results so I could come to England. My hobbies are playing Table Tennis, swimming, doing Aikido, a bit of weight lifting and, of course, programming in anything I can learn.

About QBasic

A very long time ago (about 2 days) I used to program a lot in QBasic. Now I just use it to test small programs and algorithms because Pascal and C++ (to which I've graduated) are much, much better but take too long to program in if you're just writing a tiny bit of code. Still, I did do some stuff in the little language and I do have a tiny QBasic Page to remember it by. Visit it if you want.
I wouldn't really recommend QBasic as a teaching language because it doesn't enforce a structured method of programming, which is important for beginners to learn. You don't have to declare variables or arrays before staring the main program. This leads to confusion when, out of nowhere, you say something like "a = a + 4". Where did "a" come from? Where was it declared? What was it's initial value? It wasn't declared earlier so the interpreter creates one on the spot. Admittedly even more advanced compiled languages allow you to declare a variable dynamically but even then - there MUST be a declaration. Well at least Qbasic doesn't prevent you from structuring your program so that it is more readable. Then I would have to stop using it altogther!

LINKS


My links section got deleted somehow. Check back later for them.

Last updated - 18th December 1996

This ever-under-construction page is 'maintained' by Clarence A. Garraway. (Guess what the 'A' stands for.)

That's it for now!!!