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Same 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 t
by silentbicycle 16y ago
Same 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 ...