146 sats \ 5 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 2 May \ on: The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60 devs
Man, I spent so many hours as a kid learning BASIC by typing in programs from magazines. Such good times.
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @SpaceHodler 2 May
Same here. On a ZX Spectrum. Around the age of 10. It was the first programming language I learned.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 2 May
I wanted ZX Spectrum clone (they were popular here) when I was even younger, but we didn't have money for computer. When I was 10, in 1994, mother bought used IBM PC/AT clone for her work (AMD Am286 14 MHz CPU, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB ST506 MFM HDD, EGA 16 colour video [max resolution 640x350]). That was my first actual experience with computer at home and I started learning to code some two weeks later.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 2 May
Same. 😇
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 2 May
I didn't get started that early, but I do remember a magazine, I think it was called Compute, that had code to experiment with. Good times, haha!
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 2 May
Oh yeah, I subscribed to Compute (or COMPUTE! as Wikipedia notes) and still remember it fondly.
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