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I wrote a fun game on the C64 as a teen - the starship Enterprise drawn as an "O" with lines behind it. You could steer it with arrow keys to aim at klingon wa
by Fjolsvith 8y ago
I wrote a fun game on the C64 as a teen - the starship Enterprise drawn as an "O" with lines behind it. You could steer it with arrow keys to aim at klingon warbirds, and fire phasers with the space bar.
- klodolph 8y agoI suppose this exposes some assumptions I was making. When I think of children learning programming with BASIC, Scratch, or Logo, I'm usually thinking of pre-teens or young teenagers, say 10-14 years old. Or younger, say 8, for some kids.
- lightedman 8y ago6 years old for me, TI 99/4A. Yay double-interpreted garbage!
- Fjolsvith 8y agoWhen my daughter was three, I built a Windows 95 computer for her and installed a load of preschool games on it. She could power the computer up, find her game, play it, close it and shut the computer down at that age. She learned to read from those games.