About Me & SoftShoe

Well first of all my name is Robert Shoemate, and I am 15 years old in the 9th grade. I have been programming for about two years. The first programming language I ever used was the simple Basic language on the Commodore 64. My Brother taught me some of the simple commands, and I thought it was pretty cool! The first program I ever made was a simple multiplication program. The second programming language I used was one called Amos. It was made for the Commodore Amiga and it was one of the coolest programming languages I have seen. I wasn't that good at programming in this language because I was a little kid and I didn't want to read the manual or anything. When I got my Packard Bell Pentium 75 in 7th grade I started expirementing with Qbasic. I started out making small simple programs with just text and no graphics. Then one day me and my best friend Jamy Ryals started to make a game called Lamb Hunt. This was my very first game that I ever used graphics with. I dont remember what grade I was in when I made this game, but I think I was in the beginning of the 8th grade. One day in 8th grade when one of my classes went to the computer lab I went into Qbasic and programmed a simple chat program for the networked computers. The teacher did't like this program very much, but everyone I knew thought it was a cool program! After using Qbasic a while I was introduced to the language Visual Basic. This language was a lot like Qbasic except it was written to run in windows and it was a more flexible programming language. I havn't really written anything good in this language, besides an extremely crappy version of Lamb Hunt 1 for Windows. Finally I was introduced to Visual C++. I am currently learning C++ it is one of the hardest to use languages I have seen, but its the best language out there, and ill be able to make awesome programs with it after I learn it. The SoftShoe name you see on this page a lot was made up by my Dad. He used our last name "Shoemate" and turned it into a cool sounding software company name...