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My very first attempt at programming was on a TRS-80 Model II, in a junior high school summer class. I made a Dungeons and Dragons character generator. Sadly I

My very first attempt at programming was on a TRS-80 Model II, in a junior high school summer class. I made a Dungeons and Dragons character generator. Sadly I didn't know about loops, so there was a lot of manually typed duplicate code :-). As jeffwass commented, the small screen and blocky characters were part of the charm. Although to me at the time, it may as well have been the computer from the Starship Enterprise. Good times.

TheRealDunkirk 5y ago
My first program was the same, but on a Vic-20. My code to roll 3d6 3x, and take the best score for each attribute, was 52 lines long. I printed it out and showed my dad, who was programming mainframes at his work. He said he could do it in 7, and proceeded to show me nested loops. It wound up being 6. From then on, I was hooked. I’ve been programming ever since.