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This is like a blast from the past. My first interaction with programming was with Borland Delphi 6 which had its own dialect of Object Pascal. Poor internet co
by crypt1d 10y ago
This is like a blast from the past. My first interaction with programming was with Borland Delphi 6 which had its own dialect of Object Pascal. Poor internet connection and no stackoverflow had me figuring out programming on my own, mainly by using Delphi's help books and looking at code examples. Which is probably why I eventually lost interest - I couldn't figure out complex OP concepts on my own at that age.
Fast forward to the present, I really envy the people learning programming today for the first time. The amount of possibilities and resources now is many orders of magnitude bigger, making learning so much more enjoyable.
Edit: grammar
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