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When I was 8 my classroom had a subscription to 3-2-1 Contact magazine. Every issue they would include a BASIC program that you could type in and play around wi
by UrLicht 16y ago
When I was 8 my classroom had a subscription to 3-2-1 Contact magazine. Every issue they would include a BASIC program that you could type in and play around with. Since I couldn't take the magazines home, I hand-copied the programs to note cards (and the first time, being a total noob, didn't differentiate the zeroes from the O's - my first experience with "debugging"). Those were the days...
- uxp 16y agoI remember days I would print my source so I could write code in school, long before every child had access to a computer and long before laptops were anything anyone besides CEOs and very important traveling businessmen owned. Revision control consisted of printing to carbon-copy paper. I still have a few reams code printed on Dot Matrix-perforated paper in my basement.