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by version_five
1632 days ago
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I learned to "code" at 9. The reason was we had an apple ][e with only a couple games and some BASIC programming manuals. If you wanted to do much interesting with it, the only option was to code something up. My (younger) brother and I used to write password protected "secret files" programs, and try to obfuscate the code listing so you couldn't find the password. Really simple stuff. One day I remember my dad (who is a tradesman that knows nothing about computers) helped me write code to plot a circle by solving the pythagorean formula for y=sqrt(h^2 - x^2) - neither of us knew sin/cos but he'd heard of pythagoras. (We were disappointed about the uneven spacing of points, I remember how game changing it was to learn trig years later) This was in the late 80s. I think there was more incentive to learn to code back then because it was the only way to do anything fun. Now it's a much tougher sell |
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