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That is damn impressive for an 11 year old, especially one coding without an assembler.

by tasty_freeze 3y ago

saagarjha 3y ago
Children tend to have the tenacity to put up with non-optimal coding environments :)
- moritonal 3y ago
  Having been once been a said kid who entered coding through vast abuse of PowerPoint hyperlinks, yes, this.
  - deaddodo 3y ago
    It's stories like these that make me glad to have grown up in a time of easily accessible pirated copies of Turbo Pascal and VB Classic.
    - kevindamm 3y ago
      a BASIC rom built into an Atari 800XL was my gateway environment,.. and I think not having a way to store the programs I wrote is why I don't develop any unhealthy attachments to the software I write as an adult
  - Agingcoder 3y ago
    That sounds interesting- could you elaborate?
    - moritonal 3y ago
      It was stupid, but the rough gist was I realised you could hyperlink between slides, so I made a "choose your own adventure game" like those books that said to turn to page X. But then I wanted inventory, so horrifically I started exponentially making branches of slides where you did and didn't have items. My 9-year old brain spent days hyper-focused making identical copies of all the worlds with secret parts to click. Finally I discovered macros, which helped a lot, before finally finding CMD in Windows and discovering an actual control flow which taught me variables and what not. I was the older part of the Minecraft era which was my entry into core boolean logic, and SpaceChem taught me parallel flow before entering university.
      - axhecjoyf 3y ago
        I’m not sure this is as “stupid” as you think. Myst was created this way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
      - Agingcoder 3y ago
        Thats amazing I love these kinds of stories.
deterministic 3y ago
I used to write assembler on paper and then translate it step by step to Z80 machine code to run on a ZX Spectrum. And yes I was eleven as well. It’s amazing how easily you can do things when you don’t know how hard it is :) I still remember how excited I was filling the screen with black pixels using machine code!

That is damn impressive for an 11 year old, especially one coding without an assembler.

saagarjha 3y ago

Children tend to have the tenacity to put up with non-optimal coding environments :)

moritonal 3y ago
Having been once been a said kid who entered coding through vast abuse of PowerPoint hyperlinks, yes, this.
- deaddodo 3y ago
  It's stories like these that make me glad to have grown up in a time of easily accessible pirated copies of Turbo Pascal and VB Classic.
  - kevindamm 3y ago
    a BASIC rom built into an Atari 800XL was my gateway environment,.. and I think not having a way to store the programs I wrote is why I don't develop any unhealthy attachments to the software I write as an adult
- Agingcoder 3y ago
  That sounds interesting- could you elaborate?
  - moritonal 3y ago
    It was stupid, but the rough gist was I realised you could hyperlink between slides, so I made a "choose your own adventure game" like those books that said to turn to page X. But then I wanted inventory, so horrifically I started exponentially making branches of slides where you did and didn't have items. My 9-year old brain spent days hyper-focused making identical copies of all the worlds with secret parts to click. Finally I discovered macros, which helped a lot, before finally finding CMD in Windows and discovering an actual control flow which taught me variables and what not. I was the older part of the Minecraft era which was my entry into core boolean logic, and SpaceChem taught me parallel flow before entering university.
    - axhecjoyf 3y ago
      I’m not sure this is as “stupid” as you think. Myst was created this way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
    - Agingcoder 3y ago
      Thats amazing I love these kinds of stories.

deterministic 3y ago

I used to write assembler on paper and then translate it step by step to Z80 machine code to run on a ZX Spectrum. And yes I was eleven as well. It’s amazing how easily you can do things when you don’t know how hard it is :) I still remember how excited I was filling the screen with black pixels using machine code!