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Started on BASIC on the ZX Spectrum+, learnt to program initially from the user's manual, but my skills grew exponentially when I realised that I could hit BREA
by bluesmoon 15y ago
Started on BASIC on the ZX Spectrum+, learnt to program initially from the user's manual, but my skills grew exponentially when I realised that I could hit BREAK just before some of my games had finished loading and drop into their source code. I did not know that other languages existed. I did not even know that there were other people in India who programmed computers. A year later our school introduced a summer class on computer programming and another 3 years later it was an elective for 8th grade students. I was in the first batch, and we had the elective until we graduated 2 years later.
Programming can be a very solitary experience, and at exactly the same time very social.
- derzelas 15y agoI started on a Spectrum ZX80 back in '86. At that time I learned how to bypass the mathematics training software that my father had written in hopes of getting my arithmetics skills in shape. Instead, I learned how to debug, and hack his program. From then on, it was a game of cat and mouse with him trying harder tricks to bypass. I've been programming ever since!