Printing source code?

When was the last time you ever printed your source code and for what reason? What software did you use to print the source with? What font and what character size? :P

2 years ago, because it was for an assignment that had to be turned in on paper.

JBuilder.

Whatever JBuilder uses as default.

i print sometimes because i have a "book of idea's"
i use allways FINEPRINT

I just used Open Office 2.4 for printing blitz sourcecode, but I don't have the colors like in the Blitz ide. Wondered if that was possible in any way? Or maybe if there is an ide that permits printing in color :)

I printed the AMOS source code for World Golf when it was going to be converted to PC.

I printed source code for a small project I did for my computing class a few weeks ago. But for my own purpose I never have.

AMOS Pro source code for a database I wrote, reason being I was curious how many pages it was, plus just in case the two floppies I had it backed up on went duff :/ - From what I can remember it was printed straight from AMOS Pro. No idea what the font size was.

A few years before that I used my TI-99/4a to print out 100 lines of "I must not misuse my ruler in the class room" which my physics teacher made me do for disrupting the class. Suffice to say he was not impressed and made me handwrite 200 lines of the same :( - Ah well, at least it was worth a try.

Must go back to around the year 1990 and my Turbopascal projects...

The last time I printed source code was with ISPF on an IBM Mainframe that belonged to the Deutsche Bank back in late 1997. It was COBOL code, by the way...

10 years or so ago I printed the source to an old Qbasic game I wrote once. Someone at school wanted it.

If using BlitzMax, BLIde allows you to print colored source code directly from the IDE.

I remember creating a short program to do exactly the same XD
It was something like this on the C64 way back.

10 X=0
20 X=X+1
30 PRINT#1, X + " I shouldn't call my musician teacher a nutt."
40 IF X<100 THEN GOTO 20

I fooled my teacher with this, probably because I used linenumbers while printing every line.

Um, only ever printed it once - it was my Mildred graphics library for BlitzBasic on the Amiga, printed it at college on a laser printer, normal text size - or maybe shrunk the size a bit, but still ended up being almost a whole ream of paper. No idea what I did with it, I guess I thought I was protecting it or something. I don't see why I'd want to do it nowadays unless maybe I need to read some code away from the computer.

I have a hard copy of all my major projects going back to the stoneage when we used charcoal sticks and rocks :)

Last time I printed out my source was... last week, it is now safely tucked away in a folder up in the loft at the top of the mouldy dusty pile of previous coding abominations. sigh

Cheers

Garion

Every now and then, when I'm stuck or trying to refactor a complex section, I print that section out, walk away from the computer and sit down somewhere quiet (maybe outside under a tree) and read through it on paper.

Changing your environment and the medium your code is displayed in can change the way you look at the code and thus help you over whatever hurdle you are facing. At least that's what works for me.

But I don't do it that often. Last time was maybe 2 months ago.

Relaxing somewhere while revising source code is nice, I agree. Away from computer ventilation noise. Bringing source code to work is possible for me, also. Would probably be interesting to have a portable for that, but I like to place notes on paper.

..I like to print code out, and sort it in folder where i can easy take a look at it, if i really need it..somehow, my perception is sharper if i look same code on paper and on screen..i dont know why..

I have printed it out to hand it in. Which is stupid because we also have to hand in an electronic version. And my electronic version is always different (post-deadline 'updates') and nobody ever notices.

I print out regularly. I like to go over code sometimes away from the computer. Especially if it is a snippet from here that I want to get familiar with.

a2ps -> ps2pdf (on linux)