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Mom was a COBOL programmer. She saw the direction things were headed with computing. The family got an Apple //c for Christmas in 1984. In the spring, she enrol
by jagged-chisel 2y ago
Mom was a COBOL programmer. She saw the direction things were headed with computing. The family got an Apple //c for Christmas in 1984. In the spring, she enrolled me in a six week one night a week course for computer programming at the local high school. We learned BASIC on Apple ][ e.
I took the knowledge and ran with it. Didn’t take long to want more, found a game programming book using assembly - but since I didn’t have an assembler, I entered machine code directly. That kept be engaged for years.
- didgetmaster 2y agoI also wrote my first program on an Apple IIe using Apple Basic. My high school bought two of them (one for math depth. One for the business dept.) around 1979 or 1980. I was one of the few students to have a class in both areas so I could take my code back and forth between classes on a floppy (8 inch I think)
- jagged-chisel 2y agoI know the //c had a built-in 5.25 inch drive. Keeping those things organized was … challenging.