[nfbcs] first programs?

[Chris Nusbaum]

Apple 2E? Old IBM processors? Wow... y'all are dating yourselves! I guess I
can now accept my role as the young whippersnapper on this list. <Grin!>

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Suzanne Germano
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:25 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] first programs?

I don't remember what my very first programs were but they were on an apple
2e. My first languages were Pascal and then COBOL and C. My big COBOL
program in school was a employee reporting system mostly for payroll.

Now that I have returned to school, I am working in Java, C++, Prolog and
Scheme. Prolog and Scheme were very strange at first.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Hyde, David W. (ESC) <
david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us> wrote:

> 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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