First program written was in Basic on a Commodore PET belonging to instructor of a class offered by the Farmington Community Center, year was 1980, I was 15. Don't remember what the first program was, but programming exercises for the class were typically 10-20 line ditties for using a for loop to do some kind of summation or something.
First program I wrote on hardware I owned was on a TI-55-III programmable calculator, 1982 or 1983, time-in and time-out (in h, m, s) as input data and hours elapsed (in decimal, there's a "DMS-DD" key). Assumption was that time-in was AM and time-out PM if the latter was "lower" than the former. The calculator was "programmable" in the sense of running a sequence of keystrokes as a program. I used its "signum" function to sort of "emulate" a conditional branch, therefore I feel kind of justified counting it as programming.
First actual computer I owned was an Atari 400, obtained in 1983. Programmed mostly in Atari BASIC, w. some PILOT, assembly, Pascal, and "Inter Lisp 65". Wrote bignum +-*/ operations on string representations, arbitrary base conversions on same, lots of number theory exploration. Wrote a Russian-English vocabulary random flash card game (character pixel maps are rewritable). Can't remember what all else I wrote, thing was basically a plaything to me.
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First program written was in Basic on a Commodore PET belonging to instructor of a class offered by the Farmington Community Center, year was 1980, I was 15. Don't remember what the first program was, but programming exercises for the class were typically 10-20 line ditties for using a for loop to do some kind of summation or something.
First program I wrote on hardware I owned was on a TI-55-III programmable calculator, 1982 or 1983, time-in and time-out (in h, m, s) as input data and hours elapsed (in decimal, there's a "DMS-DD" key). Assumption was that time-in was AM and time-out PM if the latter was "lower" than the former. The calculator was "programmable" in the sense of running a sequence of keystrokes as a program. I used its "signum" function to sort of "emulate" a conditional branch, therefore I feel kind of justified counting it as programming.
First actual computer I owned was an Atari 400, obtained in 1983. Programmed mostly in Atari BASIC, w. some PILOT, assembly, Pascal, and "Inter Lisp 65". Wrote bignum +-*/ operations on string representations, arbitrary base conversions on same, lots of number theory exploration. Wrote a Russian-English vocabulary random flash card game (character pixel maps are rewritable). Can't remember what all else I wrote, thing was basically a plaything to me.