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That, honestly, wasn't programming. It was very small scale tinkering, or copying programs out of listings. Or typing the command to load a tape.
by JulianMorrison 9y ago
That, honestly, wasn't programming. It was very small scale tinkering, or copying programs out of listings. Or typing the command to load a tape.
- blktiger 9y agoI have to agree. I tried typing in programs from magazines and such but that didn't make me interested in programming at all. I didn't really get serious about writing code until late in High School / College.
- ryandrake 9y agoAs a kid I typed in all 450 lines or so of a Star Trek game I found in a BASIC computer games book back in the early 80s. I remember it taking ages but that's probably just an artifact of my bad elderly memory. By the time I was done, I didn't even want to play Star Trek, I just wanted to improve the game and fix some things that didn't work just right. When I graduated over to a PC, I ended up porting it to Pascal and giving it a GUI.
- nsxwolf 9y agoAll of that was the first baby steps. Everyone my age that had a computer soon went further and began to modify and write their own programs and games.
- draw_down 9y agoGotta start somewhere.