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I learned to program on an apple 2

I learned to program on an apple 2

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That's ironic. About 40 years ago I was dating a gal a couple years younger than me and she was still in college getting her degree in education to become a teacher, I was already working as a young engineer. One of her classes was a simple software class to expose future teachers to the Basic programming language. She had a project due in a few weeks, to create a simple but educational children's game in the Basic language. She asked me to help (do it all).

I had never written in Basic, written any code on a PC, or worked with graphics ... my knowledge was only on mainframes writing in Fortran, Pascal and C at the time. We agreed to create a spelling game based on Hangman. About 3 hours later it was done, clean code, meaningful variable names complete with full comments so she could better explain exactly how it worked to her professor. I think the platform was an apple 2. The code worked great, the very basic graphics were sufficient and it was fun to play. She got an A++, and the Professor asked her if she had help writing it, she admitted her boyfriend helped. I wrote it too well, but her Professor loved it.

My first experience ever with Basic. A fond memory. And guys, yes, I reaped many rewards of appreciation from her for that effort.