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> I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to learn how to program without the internet[.] Personally, the hard part was getting good documentation, though
by blinks 16y ago
> I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to learn how to program without the internet[.]
Personally, the hard part was getting good documentation, though my parents' 286 came with a manual on GW-BASIC, which was included. I also managed to procure some BASIC documentation at a garage sale.
Basically impossible to learn computer science, though, except by trial and error. I just did things ad hoc. Experience teaches you how not to do things, but slowly.
- petercooper 16y agoBasically impossible to learn computer science, though, except by trial and error. This is a good point. I'd been coding for over ten years before I was even introduced to the (actually rather important) concept of algorithmic complexity! If I'd taken CS in university, that wouldn't have been the case. Now, though, it's possible for even novices to be introduced to these topics online (depending on who they're talking to).