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My first program was binary search

• hsmyers 14y ago
  Conway's 'Game of Life' in FORTRAN on an IBM 360. Hardly the third grade, that would have been in 1955. My next program was a 'Key Words in Context' generator written in BAL, likewise for a 360 (370 by the time I finished[model switch over should give you a clue as to when this was :)])---haven't stopped since and still continue to enjoy the creative addiction that programming brings to the game.
  • dimitar 14y ago
    The 360 was delivered in 1965. Conway's Game of Life was devised in 1970. I'm pretty sure it wasn't 1955. :-)
    • protopete 14y ago
      He was in the 3rd grade in 1955. He wrote his first computer program sometime after 1970, on a 360. Therefore he did not write his first computer program in 3rd grade.
      • dimitar 14y ago
        Ah, yes. My reading comprehension was slow that night :-).
• derleth 14y ago
  I'm not seeing a blog post. I'm using Chrome 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367).
  • gcr 14y ago
    Same. I had to turn NoScript off. Why the author chose to require javascript for this blog is beyond me. :/
    • mmihaljevic 14y ago
      I choose dynamic look via Google blogger. It's probably why you cannot see it.
• atopuzov 14y ago
  Go FER, go FER, go girl!
• kibwen 14y ago
  It wasn't quite my first program, but during one of my introductory high school programming courses I independently derived binary search (though of course I didn't realize it at the time). Additionally, this was well before I discovered what recursion was (I wonder if anyone else vividly remembers having their mind blown the first time they were introduced to recursion). The funny part is that I abandoned the binary search strategy nearly immediately after conceiving it. Why? Because I realized that the array needed to be sorted in order for the search to work... and, at the time, the only sorting routine that I knew of was bubble sort. :)