• tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I remember magazines from the 80s where you could find code in BASIC for some little game. It’s how I learned how to program as a kid.

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      3 months ago

      Oh god, don’t make any typos or you were going from screen to page, page to screen, over and over and over…

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      3 months ago

      I remember typing a whole afternoon with a friend just so the screen did alternate colors, it was so underwhelming I think that killed any spark that I might have had for programming.

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        3 months ago

        I didn’t even have a color monitor :'( I would’ve been jealous of yours.

        I almost quit programming too when my brother walked in one day as I was feverishly typing. “What? You’re programming basic? That’s for losers.” Then he whips up a ski slalom game in a single incomprehensible line of apl and I was like wtaf?

        Today I’m a professional dev and my bro is a perl hacker. I still can’t understand a line of his code.