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Re: 1st programming languages Quantum2003 #220427 08/04/15 11:57 AM
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 144 Seattle B BenjaminL Member
BenjaminL Member B Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 144 Seattle	"Elementary school - I got a book on HTML from the library" Wow this makes me feel old having started learned to code in elementary school on a TRS-80.

Re: 1st programming languages Quantum2003 #220443 08/04/15 03:52 PM
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,453 NJ madeinuk Member
madeinuk Member Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,453 NJ	Bostonian, I like the format and I tend to agree with their points. Become what you are

Re: 1st programming languages BenjaminL #220446 08/04/15 03:56 PM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area E ElizabethN Member
ElizabethN Member E Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area	Originally Posted by BenjaminL "Elementary school - I got a book on HTML from the library" Wow this makes me feel old having started learned to code in elementary school on a TRS-80. You said it. I learned BASIC in elementary school on a 4k PET with a cassette tape drive.

Re: 1st programming languages ElizabethN #220450 08/04/15 04:07 PM
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bluemagic Member B Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,489	Originally Posted by ElizabethN Originally Posted by BenjaminL "Elementary school - I got a book on HTML from the library" Wow this makes me feel old having started learned to code in elementary school on a TRS-80. You said it. I learned BASIC in elementary school on a 4k PET with a cassette tape drive. Junior High.. same thing. By High School I was coding circles around the typing teacher who was supposed to be teaching us BASIC. The difference is back then there weren't many programs already build. So if you didn't learn to code on it.. the computer was boring. Last edited by bluemagic; 08/04/15 04:08 PM.

Re: 1st programming languages Quantum2003 #220465 08/04/15 09:00 PM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area E ElizabethN Member
ElizabethN Member E Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area	Remember getting a magazine that had a program in it and typing the whole thing in? Then debugging it because you never typed it perfectly?

Re: 1st programming languages ElizabethN #220476 08/05/15 05:04 AM
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Bostonian Member B Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,640 Likes: 2 MA	Originally Posted by ElizabethN Remember getting a magazine that had a program in it and typing the whole thing in? Then debugging it because you never typed it perfectly? When our eldest son was 8 or so we gave him unfettered access to a PC without an Internet connection. He did type in programs from books and try to run them. Lots of books on programming are still being published, but programming magazines are dying out. Their successors may be sites like Hacker News that link to programming blogs.

Re: 1st programming languages ElizabethN #220479 08/05/15 07:27 AM
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,453 NJ madeinuk Member
madeinuk Member Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,453 NJ	Originally Posted by ElizabethN Remember getting a magazine that had a program in it and typing the whole thing in? Then debugging it because you never typed it perfectly? Haw! Yes, I do LOL Become what you are

Re: 1st programming languages Quantum2003 #221113 08/21/15 05:19 AM
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LRS Member L Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 67	I was rereading this thread because my son is asking to learn programming. He knows some from Jr. FLL robotics, Minecraft, and is fairly proficient at Scratch. We got a book on modding for Minecraft, and he's going to start working on that with his uncle. Has anyone used "codecademy"? I wonder if he'll be able to do a fair amount of that independently. He's homeschooled and unfortunately I have a very low tolerance for frustration with tech (and a 3 year old!)

Re: 1st programming languages LRS #221117 08/21/15 06:16 AM
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Bostonian Member B Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,640 Likes: 2 MA	Originally Posted by LRS I was rereading this thread because my son is asking to learn programming. He knows some from Jr. FLL robotics, Minecraft, and is fairly proficient at Scratch. We got a book on modding for Minecraft, and he's going to start working on that with his uncle. Has anyone used "codecademy"? I wonder if he'll be able to do a fair amount of that independently. He's homeschooled and unfortunately I have a very low tolerance for frustration with tech (and a 3 year old!) There was a thread Codecademy (learning to program in Javascript).

Re: 1st programming languages Quantum2003 #221122 08/21/15 06:42 AM
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George C Member G Joined: Mar 2015 Posts: 282	I remember writing Choose Your Own Adventure games on the Apple IIe back in the day... in Applesoft BASIC.

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