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Admittedly I didn't cut my teeth with C64 or DOS, but I have to imagine that it was only simpler because the barrier to entry was so much higher for those machi
by distrill 11y ago
Admittedly I didn't cut my teeth with C64 or DOS, but I have to imagine that it was only simpler because the barrier to entry was so much higher for those machines than it is today. And I would argue that expectations were higher in the past. Looking through some older 'entry level' computer science textbooks recently, I've been amazed at how complicated the material is and how quickly it covers things that we've only begun discussing as I'm about to graduate.
- djbf 11y agoIn those days, we also had magazines like Byte, Family Computing, Enter, etc. that included sections of type-in programs. My mom and I spent years doing that together!