Wrote my first Basic program when I was about 9 or 10 on the Atari 800XL. The program was a simple one to make "fireworks" on the screen.
I kept playing around amateurishly until I got a hold of a TI-85 years later. A friend of mine and I wrote a full RPG with basic graphics that spanned two TI-85 calculators...had to switch calculators, after passing a character memory file, once you got half way through.
I later translated this program into Turbo Pascal in high school and knew I'd be click clacking at a keyboard for the rest of my life. After seven years as a professional programmer, I haven't stopped enjoying it yet.
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Wrote my first Basic program when I was about 9 or 10 on the Atari 800XL. The program was a simple one to make "fireworks" on the screen.
I kept playing around amateurishly until I got a hold of a TI-85 years later. A friend of mine and I wrote a full RPG with basic graphics that spanned two TI-85 calculators...had to switch calculators, after passing a character memory file, once you got half way through.
I later translated this program into Turbo Pascal in high school and knew I'd be click clacking at a keyboard for the rest of my life. After seven years as a professional programmer, I haven't stopped enjoying it yet.