[nfbcs] first programs?

[Mike Freeman]

How about:

Perform Routine Thru Routine-end
Until End-of-file.

In this connection, one had to specify how one determined End-of-file with
an "88 record".

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Hyde, David W.
(ESC)
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:11 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] first programs?

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.



-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Stevens
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 9:10 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] first programs?

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




-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
Tyler
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 7:22 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: [nfbcs] first programs?

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?

--
Take care,
Ty
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that
dares not reason is a slave.


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