[nfbcs] first programs?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

The sad part about this is I actually understood your basic. I first 
started programming on the Braille Lite, with the book from Dan Zingaro. 
I wish I could find the book and the basic stuff again just for fun. His 
analogies and humor turned it into a book the 12-year-old me could get 
into, which was pretty awesome.
On 1/21/2014 11:16 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:
> 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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Take care,
Ty
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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.