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In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
by Qz 16y ago
In BASIC (the horror) when I was maybe 6 or 7. I tried making text adventure games by writing out every if/then branch explicitly...
- vibragiel 16y agoBeen there. Ah, those infinitely nested INKEY$...
- steveklabnik 16y agoAre you me? I was lucky enough that my grandparents bought me one of those computers that hooked up to my TV, and it had a BASIC interpreter on it. I still have the manual...
- alok-g 16y agoI still have the computer too! (Sinclair ZX Spectrum+)
- thirdstation 16y agoWas it a Commodore 64? That's what I had. I attribute my code reading abilities to navigating my own GOTO spaghetti while trying to recreate ZORK.
- henry81 16y agoSame.. my dad had a big book on BASIC programming and we just got our first computer. I've been hooked ever since.
- silentbicycle 16y agoSame here, BASIC, 5 or 6. Text adventure games, lemonade stand, and so on. Dijkstra says, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." But he complained about nearly everything.
- Qz 16y agoI never really got very far with BASIC anyway, and started reading about OOP when I was maybe 12? Hopefully I was inoculated in time...
- silentbicycle 16y agoI taught myself C++ from the Borland Turbo C++ compiler manual and library books when I was 12-13ish. And later, Perl, then Python, then ...