[nfbcs] first programs?

[Hyde, David W. (ESC)]

Ok. I never became a computer programmer. The first one I wrote though was in Fortran, and it was one just to move a knight around a chessboard, and to print the results on the line printer. I was between my sophomore and junior year in high school, and I remember we worked on a Honeywell 1150. Had a big surprise when I learned that things like the period and coma were not in the same place on the keypunch machine as they were on a typewriter keyboard. Now if you want to repeat this message

300    do, 400 i(50)
310    I = I+1
400    If I = 50, go 410
410     continue

Thanks for this thread. It does bring back memories of long ago.



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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Stevens
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The first full program I wrote was my end-of-year project using the Basic language on the legendary Radio Shack TRS-80 during my senior year of high school (1984).  It was a music trivia game where if the player got the answer wrong, an ASCII human stick figure got blasted by a "laser beam" from above.  If the answer was correct, the beam did a sudden left, missing the figure.  From what I remember, the game randomly selected five questions from a pool of fifteen or twenty, and the player's score was shown after the final guess with corresponding message ("Good job", "Bad luck", etc).

Ryan Stevens




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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 7:22 PM
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Hello all:
Given that this is a cs list, I kind of had a fun topic. As brought up by one of the most recent threads, I wrote a "swim" program a while back. This was one of my first programs I ever actually wrote for the pc, and was written for a school project in my 6th grade class using Libertybasic. I'd totally forgotten the program or the language itself, but it seems LB is still alive and kicking. I don't really remember much of the details of the program, just that it was a very very basic game, if it can be called that.

What were some of your first projects?

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Ty
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