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Did someone give you a book, or something? I’m curious about people who learned to program as children. I was an intensely curious kid too, and would quite hap
by dorkwood 8y ago
Did someone give you a book, or something?
I’m curious about people who learned to program as children. I was an intensely curious kid too, and would quite happily dig around the Windows 3.1 OS hoping to uncover something cool. All I really got out of it was a knowledge of the computer’s file system, though.
In my early teens I had access to the internet, and managed to find a C++ tutorial online. I learned to print text to the command line, but not much more than that.
It took until my late 20s that I finally had the resources and mental stamina to start learning it for real.
- ido 8y agoMS languages had great "online" (i.e. integrated in the IDE) help, you could learn programming from the QBasic/QuickBasic integrated help alone. Visual Basic also had great integrated help. We also had Logo classes at primary school but I never "got" that you can actually program with logo, it seemed like a silly drawing program to me at the time.