Post 788449 by ravenousbadger@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #786786 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T21:33:44Z
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This book is how I learned programming. How did you?
(DIR) Post #786856 by Data@ruhr.social
2018-10-26T21:39:17Z
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@thomasfuchs On my C128
(DIR) Post #786873 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T21:40:08Z
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@Data whoa, starting of with machine code!
(DIR) Post #786894 by Data@ruhr.social
2018-10-26T21:41:15Z
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@thomasfuchs Youre right, it was Commodore Basic
(DIR) Post #786904 by claus@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T21:42:08Z
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@thomasfuchs
(DIR) Post #786922 by skynebula@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T21:43:45Z
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@thomasfuchs Thanks to the computer science class in 1st grade. I was lucky to be in a school with a few computers early 80s...But I got into Pascal later on too :)
(DIR) Post #786952 by tom@slime.global
2018-10-26T21:45:39Z
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@thomasfuchs while dabbling in the field beforehand, school mostly. (Went to a HTL where we did C for a year and then moved on to Java. Dropped out during the 3rd year though)
(DIR) Post #787041 by Stringbender@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-26T21:50:43Z
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@thomasfuchs School, in the 70's, taught us Algol in maths class and took us weekly up to the local tech college to run our short, error filled programs on an Elliot 907 [?] or the ICL something or other, whatever was in use that day.
(DIR) Post #787627 by WalterLuigi@social.royaltechnology.net
2018-10-26T22:18:58Z
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@thomasfuchs Reading about perl online and Linux system administration mainly.
(DIR) Post #788449 by ravenousbadger@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T23:09:07Z
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@thomasfuchs That's making the assumption that I'm good enough to call anything I've done programming, which I don't think anyone would
(DIR) Post #788538 by preslavrachev@mastodon.technology
2018-10-26T23:13:26Z
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@thomasfuchs written by the Niklas himself? Same here.
(DIR) Post #788563 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-10-26T23:14:37Z
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@ravenousbadger Anything that makes a computer do something is programming :)
(DIR) Post #789106 by julienxx@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-27T00:00:12Z
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@thomasfuchs same language but with this one https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6571659-M.jpg
(DIR) Post #789469 by ravenousbadger@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T00:22:21Z
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@thomasfuchs That is only technically correct
(DIR) Post #790610 by dheadshot@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T00:39:53Z
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@thomasfuchsI don't have the book that taught me BASIC (that was at school), but I have this:, my second language learned:
(DIR) Post #790657 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T01:00:43Z
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@dheadshot essentially Pascal :)
(DIR) Post #791300 by amdt@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T02:21:37Z
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@thomasfuchs My grandfather gave me a copy of Usborneās Introduction to Computer Programming. It was full of BASIC listings and airbrushed illustrations of robots, space invaders and space ships. (Photo from here: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2013/11/17/introduction-to-computer-programming) https://mastodon.social/media/XfYh7KnaXyjt1wz8krM
(DIR) Post #792167 by tsturm@mastodon.cloud
2018-10-27T03:40:49Z
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@thomasfuchs The ZX 81 BASIC manual: http://zxnext.narod.ru/manuals/ZX81_Manual.pdf
(DIR) Post #792224 by Aaron_Kreipe@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T03:47:41Z
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@thomasfuchs At first I learned mostly by trial and errorš then there was the internetš¤Æ
(DIR) Post #792771 by readsteven@mastodon.xyz
2018-10-27T04:32:04Z
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@thomasfuchs I cut the spine off and put it in a 3-ring binder so it would lay flat in my lap while I typed.
(DIR) Post #794584 by balglaas@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T07:27:39Z
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@thomasfuchs This book
(DIR) Post #795316 by dheadshot@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T08:53:11Z
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@thomasfuchsYep. Object oriented Pascal though.
(DIR) Post #795700 by turpinn@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T09:39:59Z
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@thomasfuchs I also started with commodore basic in C64. I could not load games anymore after the tape reader stopped working, so I copied and modified programs from some books instead. I still have the C64, it still works!
(DIR) Post #797326 by thomasfuchs@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T11:42:32Z
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@readsteven Thatās a common hack from back then! I remember I copied some books and had them spiral-bound, so much easier to use.
(DIR) Post #801451 by guzzisti@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T16:29:03Z
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@thomasfuchsI know the book is flying around somewhere in the house, but I can't find it, so only a link to a retro plain HTML site: http://www.mpm-kc85.de/html/C0142_Basiclernen.htm
(DIR) Post #801664 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2018-10-27T16:44:27Z
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@thomasfuchs https://mastodon.social/media/gluzLniOHg4sy1LWqzI