Re: Re: Hello
By: Jared to cr1mson on Wed Jul 27 2022 01:45 pm
Re: Re: Hello
By: cr1mson to Thesystemguy on Mon Jul 18 2022 18:55:00
Hello. What brings you to programming?
My anwswer to that one is easy... BASIC on a Microbee in 1986 bought me to
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With me it was when our science classroom bought a Commodore PET in 1981. We learned as a class to write programs in BASIC, then worked as teams to write programs that demonstrated what we learned. In most cases one or two
students did all the work, and the other team members goofed off. We'd all be
tested individually, so paying attention was important.
To me at the time, computers were magical. The idea that you could tell a computer what to do by writing and keying in code was also magical. it was like writing spells. We didn't get too technical in what all could be done
in BASIC though. It was basically creating processes requiring input statements that would be used in making math programs, or you would enter a name, a noun, a verb, and some adjectives, and it will create a story where
it fills in the blanks with the words you gave it. I wanted to learn more advanced skills such as variables and arrays to make the story programs more random, however my guess was the teacher hadn't read that far in the book
yet.
I never went much further in programming even though I had an Atari 400 then later a C-64. I would try to learn, but I probably could've learned more
if I had learned flowcharting as it related to creating larger programs with multiple loops and subroutines.
Now that I have a couple of Raspberry Pi's and a Rock64 sbc, I would like to learn Python so I can make use of the GPIO pins.
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