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This project makes me really happy. My first programming experience was modifying numbers I found in GORILLAS.BAS to see what would happen. I didn't know I wan
by furyofantares 11y ago
This project makes me really happy. My first programming experience was modifying numbers I found in GORILLAS.BAS to see what would happen. I didn't know I wanted to learn to program or even what that meant. But the only way I knew to play the game was to open the source file and then run it, which made me curious. I couldn't understand it, but it wasn't unintelligible, either. Being a single text file without a lot of programming ceremony was probably a big part of that. You just start reading top to bottom and that's exactly how it's executing at the start of the file (before you get to subroutines of course).
- zamalek 11y agoThat's my story, too. The only difference is to edit the BAS I would need to restart the computer: I didn't have a VGA card so I ran a TSR VGA emulator (called 'phix'). It broke the QBasic editor. So even back then I was learning about the high cost of changes. I eventually cleared out the BAS due to a mistake I made while working with the editor that I could not see.