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Post #267,604
by tuberculosis
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9/15/06 12:34:55 AM
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New I started on BASIC as well
Some variant that ran on IBM mainframes under CMS initially, later AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple II.

I used to wander into Radio Shacks as a kid and enter obnoxious infinite loops on all the TRS-80s to annoy the salespeople.

So you can recover from it.

My progression was BASIC, Pascal, HyperCard/HyperTalk (I was SUCH a stackhead for a couple years), FORTRAN77, C, C++ Smalltalk, Java, ObjectiveC, and lately JavaScript.


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Post #267,699
by boxley
9/15/06 9:11:38 PM
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New I used to do the same, as an adult :-)
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Post #268,445
by jb4
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9/23/06 1:10:45 PM
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New And I, too...although it was called FOCAL on a PDP-8
(in 1968...) And Dykstra was right!
jb4
"So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't."
— Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 29Apr06
     'Why Johnny can't code' - by er, David Brin. In Salon. - (Ashton) - (35) - Sept. 14, 2006, 08:40:35 PM EDT
         whats wrong with asembler? - (boxley) - Sept. 14, 2006, 08:51:03 PM EDT
         Cute, but... - (admin) - (17) - Sept. 14, 2006, 11:22:49 PM EDT
             Novices don't know Linux - (warmachine) - (16) - Sept. 15, 2006, 05:32:51 AM EDT
                 Novices didn't know the Atari either - (admin) - (11) - Sept. 15, 2006, 07:58:26 AM EDT
                     Most novices have Windows but not Linux - (warmachine) - (10) - Sept. 15, 2006, 09:18:29 AM EDT
                         Live CDs are nice. - (admin) - (9) - Sept. 15, 2006, 10:08:11 AM EDT
                             Why bother with a different OS to learn basic programming? - (warmachine) - (8) - Sept. 15, 2006, 11:42:37 AM EDT
                                 What's there to learn? - (admin) - (7) - Sept. 15, 2006, 11:49:00 AM EDT
                                     How to write a DB app with front end - (warmachine) - (3) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:22:22 PM EDT
                                         Not a kid. - (admin) - (2) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:31:50 PM EDT
                                             Anything with a GUI is *already* a game -NT - (drewk) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:42:35 PM EDT
                                             So, he was using a Windows environment? -NT - (warmachine) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:54:39 PM EDT
                                     Had same idea, but thought of Cygwin - (jb4) - (2) - Sept. 23, 2006, 01:07:27 PM EDT
                                         Solving the wrong problem - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 23, 2006, 03:16:43 PM EDT
                                             Point taken... - (jb4) - Sept. 25, 2006, 08:34:41 AM EDT
                 A beginner's programming language will have to be on YouTube - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 15, 2006, 08:22:49 AM EDT
                     My son got started because of video games - (admin) - Sept. 15, 2006, 08:37:09 AM EDT
                     (Almost) same here - (drewk) - Sept. 15, 2006, 09:16:18 AM EDT
                     Robots - Mindstorm, etc - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:48:00 PM EDT
         BASIC???? - I shudder! - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - Sept. 14, 2006, 11:23:16 PM EDT
             BASIC is not that bad. - (static) - Sept. 14, 2006, 11:27:57 PM EDT
             How wonderfully biased you are... - (admin) - (3) - Sept. 14, 2006, 11:36:08 PM EDT
                 The first language I learned was BASIC - and . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:00:31 AM EDT
                     Thus proving my point. - (admin) - (1) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:09:48 AM EDT
                         Well that it can . . . if you're paying attention. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:15:57 AM EDT
             I started on BASIC as well - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:34:55 AM EDT
                 I used to do the same, as an adult :-) -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 15, 2006, 09:11:38 PM EDT
                 And I, too...although it was called FOCAL on a PDP-8 - (jb4) - Sept. 23, 2006, 01:10:45 PM EDT
         Just use some old version of Delphi or VB - (warmachine) - (1) - Sept. 15, 2006, 02:49:07 AM EDT
             same here - (jbrabeck) - Sept. 15, 2006, 08:26:24 AM EDT
         PHP - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - Sept. 15, 2006, 09:16:28 AM EDT
             I still like Pascal for teaching - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 15, 2006, 09:17:08 AM EDT
                 The "Advanced C " columnist in Computer Languages . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 15, 2006, 11:07:45 AM EDT
                 Ick - FWIW they're trying to get Squeak on the $100 PC - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 15, 2006, 12:46:14 PM EDT
         You just need to know where to look - (Arkadiy) - Sept. 18, 2006, 12:03:33 PM EDT

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