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I was forced against my will to learn basic. I mean, without it i doubt i would have gotten the experience with programming that has led me here now, but it's actually part of the highschool IPT curriculum in Australia (probably is in the rest of the world too), so I never really had a choice. The mentally injured cult is being churned out by our schools every year . Therefore i have mixed feelings about basic: good because it got me on programming, bad because it made it hard to kick the habit.

We did Javascript back in Year 11. I made a Dice adventure game complete with a scrolling map and everything.

My formal programming history is a horror: QBASIC, Hypercard, Actionscript, Java. However, NCSS taught me Python, which was cool.

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/me shakes his head...

You kids make me feel like a dinosaur. When I first learned to program, there was no choice but to learn BASIC. (That was on a Sinclair ZX 81.) Even on the second machine I got my hands on (a C64), there was either BASIC or ASM, which is hardly an improvement language-design-wise.

*roar*walk like a dinosaur*roar*

Same for me: First thing I've ever got my hands on 's been a c64 - wit asm&basic. So what: 've learned basic & used to think that I could program - what but a fool i've been those times. *rofl*

halleluja it's a snowy day!

distantvoices wrote:So what: 've learned basic & used to think that I could program - what but a fool i've been those times. *rofl*

Yep... after Basic it was ARexx for me, and I felt like "a real programmer (tm)". I still have the sources from those days. When I look at them today I'd like to travel back in time and whack my younger self a couple of times to get a clue.

I problably have to shoot me after this:

But wat was wrong with basic. I pretty much wrote a VGA 'driver' that had 32 KiB om memory assigned to one screen and a 80x60 resolution of a virtual (128x128) and used smooth scrolling. It was all possible to work with basic.

and then .. i learned C.

Solar wrote:You kids make me feel like a dinosaur.

I've seen somebody was actually dedicating one of those old 8-bits: PMD-85-3 and Atari 800XE. I've signed up for the Atari, hehe can't wait to arrive at the post
That's right kids, I grew up on a 80486 PC and not a Pentium 4 HT. I just like the old'n working things

That Atari thing does have the tape recorder, but the RF modulator is gone plus it's PSU isn't working as I heard. Not to worry, as everything can be done using a hammer and a bit of force.

No, really - i can power up that thing from the PC PSU lying around, and when the coaxial antenna TV connector isn't working, the DIN5 composite-videomonitor connector is working correctly. Now to find the DIN5-SCART reduction (or DIN5 -> 4 cinch connectors and RCA-> SCART)

distantvoices wrote:halleluja it's a snowy day!

Halleluja, the whole week was snowin'!...

Regards
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