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> I got to see first-hand that notions like function calling, sequential processing, and boolean logic are not intuitive It was a very long time since I first
by 90s_dev 1y ago
> I got to see first-hand that notions like function calling, sequential processing, and boolean logic are not intuitive
It was a very long time since I first learned programming.
It was QBasic first I think.
It was a very slow process that I had mostly forgotten.
It took me a very long time to grasp what's now very basic control flow.
But I was like 7 or 10.
I remember feeling like "this is pure magic!" so many times so very early on.
Part of what I want to do is rekindle that like pico8 did for me. Somehow.
- wduquette 1y agoI learned BASIC with line numbers and GOTO statements when I was 14 or so. There were two fancy control structures: FOR/NEXT loops and functions that could take one argument and return a value based on a simple expression. Later we got ON GOTO and ON GOSUB, which jumped to one of N line numbers given a computed index. I first saw real control structures, functions, and procedures in Pascal, took to them immediately, and never looked back. None of it felt that difficult or confusing at the time; but then the programs were vastly simpler too.