Subj : What Was Your First Compu
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Sat Jul 06 2024 09:26:00

³ MP> With COBOL being a "business" language, you'd think they'd make the
³ MP> connection.  They eventually did, a couple of years after I graduated.  I
³ MP> look back and think that was probably too late by then.
³
³In my last year of high school (1997-1998), I heard my school was teaching
³programming, and I wanted to start learning, so I took the class. I hoped they
³would be teaching programming with C or C++, but they were teaching BASIC..
ÀÄ[N=>MP]
 
Our HS had a "computer" class (cannot remember what it was called now) where
we coded in Commodore BASIC on C64s.  That was ten years before your
experience.
 
There was one other computer lab that had actual IBM or compatible
machines.  It was for a "business computer" class.  I didn't take that one
but was curious about it.  I don't think they learned programming.  I think
they probably used the business tools available them (word processors,
spreadsheets, etc.).  A couple of years later I took a class in college
that was similar.  We received student versions of Wordperfect and I think
Quatro spreadsheet.  There was one other but I forget what.
 
It was all DOS based then.
 
Mike
 
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