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I made a colourful ASCII birthday cake in Pascal that beeped happy birthday at that age. Still one of my proudest programming moments.
by markatkinson 8y ago
I made a colourful ASCII birthday cake in Pascal that beeped happy birthday at that age. Still one of my proudest programming moments.
- vram22 8y agowriteln(chr(7)) ? or something more (e.g. playing different frequencies to sound like the happy birthday song)? Related, and good fun for kids of all ages (first did something like this on my earliest home computer [1]): Play the piano on your computer with Python: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-computer-with-python.html https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-compu... [1] Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html Western classic music fans may find the comments on that post interesting - stuff about octaves and frequencies.