Online since 1990 Yes! I started with Gopher. I do modern Web Component Development with technologies supported by **all** WHATWG partners (Apple, Google, Microsoft & Mozilla)
The TRS-80 manual definitely changed my live. I was 10, and since Dutch was my first, and at that time still only language, it was a book full of magical spells.
10 PRINT "DANNY"
20 GOTO 10
When I learned to put a semi-colon after the first line I got hooked on programming, and learned English along the way.
In 1990, Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards changed my mindset from being a back-end developer (I did Gopher) to "front-end".. I only want to program stuff that does something on the screen.
I then switched to 4GL Macromedia Authorware, but being able to do 3GL scripting made it powerful.
And then the Web really kicked in; Adobe bought Macromedia and killed all good tools by moving development teams to India.
And now we are all thrown back to almost only 3GL... and people get excited about retro languages like WASM.
Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
Online since 1990 Yes! I started with Gopher. I do modern Web Component Development with technologies supported by **all** WHATWG partners (Apple, Google, Microsoft & Mozilla)
The TRS-80 manual definitely changed my live. I was 10, and since Dutch was my first, and at that time still only language, it was a book full of magical spells.
When I learned to put a semi-colon after the first line I got hooked on programming, and learned English along the way.
In 1990, Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards changed my mindset from being a back-end developer (I did Gopher) to "front-end".. I only want to program stuff that does something on the screen.
I then switched to 4GL Macromedia Authorware, but being able to do 3GL scripting made it powerful.
And then the Web really kicked in; Adobe bought Macromedia and killed all good tools by moving development teams to India.
And now we are all thrown back to almost only 3GL... and people get excited about retro languages like WASM.
Programming is more fashion than science.
Anyone want to buy my Peter Norton book?
Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
rockpapershotgun.com/usborne-codin...
I still have this one on my desk as a talisman
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How can young programmers learn to code without graphics like that?
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