Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 4, 2014 Root Admin ID:786539 Share Posted February 4, 2014 How to Design Programs, Second Edition Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are Dummies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786542 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Hey... I resemble that remark { at least my code does } Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 4, 2014 Author Root Admin ID:786544 Share Posted February 4, 2014 LOL - Yeah mine a bit too. I remember some of my first VB code from a decade ago and it was bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786550 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'm terrible about not putting comments in my code. Granted it's been many years since I've written any, so it's not like it matters anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786599 Share Posted February 4, 2014 heh ... go back further ... "REM" . the cartoon could just as well apply to "understanding female thinking" . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786625 Share Posted February 4, 2014 LOL - Yeah mine a bit too. I remember some of my first VB code from a decade ago and it was bad. Ah. c'mon.Ya'll are just noobs. My first computer science class had us programming in APL and Fortran. I won't say how long ago that was, as it will date me.(Well, I am carbon-datable anyway, so it's no matter.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 4, 2014 Author Root Admin ID:786767 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Well I was never in a computer science class. This Kaypro type was probably my first real exposure to computers aside from my Texas TI-94A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L. Galt Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786813 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I learned how to do BASIC on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 4, 2014 Author Root Admin ID:786828 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Me too but got frustrated when I hit a brick wall at 4 pages full and could go no further as it had filled all memory. Didn't use another computer again for a few years after that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L. Galt Posted February 4, 2014 ID:786883 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I hit same said brick wall. I was programming (of all things) a way to play music through BASIC. Didn't help that the BASIC came on a Cartridge (ROM) and output was to a tape recorder..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted February 5, 2014 ID:786891 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, fond memories. Actually, I recall having to get significant help from my BF at the time in order to get those darn elevators to behave properly according to the assignment.It definitely took more than 21 minutes of work.And comp sci was most definitely NOT my strongest subject. I had little exposure to computers for many years thereafter, until I had to work on a dummy DOS terminal during a research stint.And Harvard Graphics a few years after that. Those were the days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted February 5, 2014 ID:786935 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Well I was never in a computer science class. This Kaypro type was probably my first real exposure to computers aside from my Texas TI-94AI did everything with a TI-99/4ATI-BASICtext to speechPARSECPolar graphs using 40 col Radio Shack thermal printer (Rose, Cardioid, Spiral, etc)Tape recorder data storageWrote and ran all sorts of Electrical circuitry programs. It had a whopping 16KB. I bought all the technical manuals and started learning assembler on it and its microcomputer logic and architecture. At that time I thought TI would be what Intel is now. I'm glad I didn't bet on that outcome. When the TI-99/4A was antiquated, I took it apart and placed it's motherboard on my wall as "Art". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted February 5, 2014 ID:787028 Share Posted February 5, 2014 my first comp stuff was on a PDP8/E :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8(uuuggghhh ... manually entering a bootstrap loader by flipping switches and toggling to enter each "line") Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 6, 2014 Author Root Admin ID:787269 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Well now we know someone that is right up there with ShyWriter in the SSI collection department Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted February 6, 2014 ID:787491 Share Posted February 6, 2014 yeah ...the first radio i built ran a long time ... it had a one quart kerosene tank . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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