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BASIC was kind of nice, I liked to program simple adventure games on it. Too bad I never really figured out arrays and DATA statements, that would have helped i

by dep_b 10y ago

BASIC was kind of nice, I liked to program simple adventure games on it. Too bad I never really figured out arrays and DATA statements, that would have helped immensely with getting more complex things done.

pc2g4d 10y ago
The discovery of arrays was one of the most amazing moments in my young programmer education. That and if/then and gosub/return. Paradigm changers!
- woofyman 10y ago
  For me, it was nested loops.
pavlov 10y ago
Indeed, I can remember trying to make some kind of space game that declared data like this: LET PLANET1$ = "Earth" LET PLANET2$ = "Mars" LET PLANET3$ = "Venus" ... LET PLANET45$ = "Sirius" And rendered its amazing 16-color EGA screens like this: PSET 0, 0, 7 PSET 1, 0, 5 PSET 2, 0, 6 ... PSET 200, 150, 5 Drawing those pics required some patience for sure. After all that effort, I had no idea how to make them move.
- fogleman 10y ago
  I, too, wrote entire games as a kid without knowing what an array was. :shudder:
- Zardoz84 10y ago
  I remember that QBasic/TurboBasic, had a instruction to move blocks of screen applying some basic bit blit like XOR, AND, etc. There was example of animated ball using it.