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As someone who was there and did that I want to refute that assumption :) I have typed in many programs and there's not a lot to learn because most of them cons
by gaius 8y ago
As someone who was there and did that I want to refute that assumption :) I have typed in many programs and there's not a lot to learn because most of them consisted of many pages of DATA lines and a small loop that loaded those machine instructions into the home computer's memory and started the program by a USR directive
On the Beeb most listings were BASIC with all the logic there and DATA statements just for in-game assets such as sprites or room descriptions in a text adventure. All the Osbourne books are online now , check them out https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2016/02/usborne-releases-1980s-coding-books-as-free-pdfs/ https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2016/02/usborne-releases-1... many happy memories inside!
- pdjstone 8y agoFor more 80's microcomputer BASIC nostalgia, there's also INPUT magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine)). I spent hours and hours as a kid poring through those magazines. Archive.org has the entire series as PDFS - https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine. They were really good at explaining core programming concepts and the illustrations were also amazing.
- pmyteh 8y agoBBC BASIC had a built-in inline assembler, which I think also made things easier for people typing in at home. Even if the program dropped to assembly language for speed, the instructions were still human-readable rather than DATA statements full of raw hex.