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Maybe I can finally debug that cool-looking boxing game I typed in by hand from a magazine. To this day, I am sort of surprised I wound up a coder given that wa
by tclancy 1y ago
Maybe I can finally debug that cool-looking boxing game I typed in by hand from a magazine. To this day, I am sort of surprised I wound up a coder given that was my initial experience with programming.
- nonethewiser 1y agoI didn't really know about this until recently when I listened to a DHH / Lex Fridman podcast. The podcast started out with him retelling a very similar experience. I wasn't familiar with DHH either and found myself disagreeing with a lot of his takes (JS > TS ... really?) but it was a really interesting conversation none-the-less.
- georgemcbay 1y ago> I typed in by hand from a magazine. Probably Compute!'s Gazette. Figuring out where I messed up (or where they misprinted) in the hundreds of lines of code entered from some of these listings was my introduction to debugging :D
- fm2606 1y agoI loved Compute!'s Gazette. I miss good print magazines
- binarycrusader 1y agoIt’s back! https://www.computesgazette.com/ https://www.computesgazette.com/
- tclancy 1y ago100% that. And my Irish Catholic cynicism told me it was just as likely the person who wrote the article messed up the code as me so I went back to playing games.
- linsomniac 1y agoPages and pages of numbers to type in...
- codazoda 1y agoI had the Tandy TRS-80 CoCo, but same… My experience was differently though. Figuring out where the typos were is what I credit with my learning to code.
- pflenker 1y agoMAD magazine once printed a listing with some non obvious errors in it, introducing my 10 year old self to the concept of a bug. Maybe now I will have the chance to see a self-made Alfred E. Neuman!
- dole 1y agoI wound up typing that entire listing at least three times before I gave up and never saw the errata. Definitely worth the satisfaction of youtubing or googling the output decades after.
- bcrl 1y agoI remember having to figure out how port magazine and book BASIC code between the various dialects between the various spaces I spent time in. In the 1980s, my uncle first taught me BASIC on an IBM PC. At school we had an Apple ][+ while at home I had a Coco II and later an Amiga. Another friend had a Vic 20, while another had a Commodore 64. Then came QuickBASIC, QuickC, Microsoft C, C on the ICONs, Aztec C, gcc... 6502, m68k, 8086, i386... Learning about the quirks across systems so early on turned out to be an invaluable experience.
- tclancy 1y agoI love so much you all found each other. Someone create a meetup,or whatever the kiddies do now for us.