Why? It was Christmas of 1979, my parents (a school maintenance worker and a public health nurse) scrimped and saved the staggering US$1000 to buy a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80.
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It came with a ring binder that covered the complete BASIC programming language, and my Dad figured getting me to learn to write computer software would be a good way to keep me out of trouble. #SIMPLY FORTRAN WITH GOOGLE PLAY CREDIT SOFTWARE#
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What happened next? Mom and Dad would buy me and my younger brother books or subscriptions to popular magazines about "home computing," which included printed source code for a variety of games. We spent hours every weekend painstakingly typing and then debugging line by line with the accompanying checksums to find our typos. When the games got boring, we'd modify them. Soon after that, we were sharing disks by mail and then over BBSes at 110bps.įour decades later, I can collaborate on creations with the entire world and home connectivity has increased 7+ orders of magnitude, but part of me still misses those Saturday afternoons hunched over the keyboard, getting thoroughly trounced by my little brother at something truly terrible we created together. - Jeremy Stanley trivially at first just tweaking strings here and there to turn, say, a roman battle strategy game into a space battle strategy game but later increasing the complexity of our changes and eventually starting to write terrible games of our own. What was your first programming language? My first language was BASIC, which I learned in 7th grade. Were you paid to learn it? Not unless you count being allowed to play Wolfenstein 3D, Minecraft, and Sim City in the computer lab at lunch as a perk for being interested enough in computer science to learn BASIC for fun.ĭid you choose it? I don't think I was aware enough at the time to realize there might have been alternatives. This was what was available in the computer lab, and some older students knew enough about it to get me into it. I don't remember it even being part of the computer science class curriculum. I used it exclusively to create text-based "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style games. Something about creating something artistic and fun from code and having the computer run it appealed to me. #SIMPLY FORTRAN WITH GOOGLE PLAY CREDIT CODE#
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