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When I was a kid and learned about BASIC, I would write little snippets of code in my paper notebook. I didn’t have a computer at home at the time. One time we
by allenu 5y ago
When I was a kid and learned about BASIC, I would write little snippets of code in my paper notebook. I didn’t have a computer at home at the time.
One time we were doing a math test in the computer room with Apple IIes and we were allowed to use them as our calculator. I finished the test early, so I thought, what program can I write in the five to ten minutes I have that would be neat? I ended up just making the screen fill with random characters. I was so proud to get it to work.
In high school I even wrote assembly code in the library on some loose leaf paper as I once was gripped with a really neat idea I had to express.
Honestly, my teenage years were filled with moments like these when I first learned to code.
- TchoBeer 5y agoA magic moment for me was writing a sorting algorithm that was horrifically inefficient (I think it was like bubble sort but worse), and then later finding out about recursive sorting and making what I now know to be merge sort. It was really special to realize that you can make code that does the same thing but faster if you're clever.