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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 11:47:31 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Who taught you how to write program?

   • Travis Campbell (hcoyote@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 12:05:36 JST Travis Campbell

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     @nixCraft HyperCard.

   • Nathanael Stottlemyer (nkstottlemyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 12:32:10 JST Nathanael Stottlemyer

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     @nixCraft Myself. Somehow I managed to cobble together knowledge of python through many books from the library, but I never really learned until I used it for my own projects.

   • Curtis McHale (curtismchale@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 12:40:03 JST Curtis McHale

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     @nixCraft me and the internet

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 13:17:24 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft Wrote my first couplee programs in RSTS BASIC-PLUS when I was in ninth grade. Learned on my own. No idea what documentation I might have learned from. It was fun writing code to do array stuff without knowing how to code arrays.

     After that, three years of programming classes in 10th-12th grade. (My school district was ahead of its time.) Lots more BASIC-PLUS, some Fortran-77, some PDP assembler, etc. Have never taken a programming course since.

   • Robert Culling (syntakticsugar@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 13:28:12 JST Robert Culling

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     @nixCraft SICP 🧙🏻♂️🪄

   • Ray Hayes (rayhayes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 14:52:55 JST Ray Hayes

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     @nixCraft FORTRAN was required freshman year engineering at UMASS 1978. Learned BASIC at Wentworth 1981 and then COBOL at CCE in Newton, MA 1983. Haven't looked back since.

   • jigso (jigso@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 15:17:29 JST jigso

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     @nixCraft
     I read the User Guide and Reference Guide of Turbo Pascal 4 in 1988. I was 14, and already knew a little Basic.

   • Dyrathror (dyrathror@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 15:45:38 JST Dyrathror

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     @nixCraft books

   • petur 🔵😶 (peturdainn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 16:04:36 JST petur 🔵😶

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     @nixCraft some books

   • TheElectricRambler (traveling_mike@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 16:07:57 JST TheElectricRambler

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     @nixCraft Back in ye olde days I ended up having to navigate a migration from NIS to FreeIPA. It was either learn to program or die at my desk.

   • kudu (notkudu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 16:20:27 JST kudu

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     @nixCraft in highschool this year, learned C++

   • Christian Ströbele (c_stroebele@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:20:35 JST Christian Ströbele

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     @nixCraft
     this gem. (english version: https://www.acornelectron.co.uk/ugs/electron/acorn_computers/ug-english/contents_eng.html / https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/user/custom/Acorn/8bit/Electron/manuals/Acorn_ElectronUG.pdf)

     Sophie Wilson's BBC Basic was soo cool. You had procedures, functions, inline assembler...

     think i also had some other book, it showed how to do 3d graphics per multiplication of matrices etc. anyone remember which that might have been? maybe "The Acorn Guide to the Electron"?

   • Elicerent (elicerent@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 19:42:47 JST Elicerent

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     @nixCraft I taught myself

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 20:36:35 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft various people including myself. I fiddled with Visual Basic with a grand goal of ✨️making a rhythm game✨️ but failed several times (of course...). Then I got to attend some coding classes, then hiatus, then I enrolled in a "real" programming class during my first year with OCaml. Interesting choice of the introductory language, in hindsight, but reportedly my then professor insisted on using that because he was a PL person. Then I started developing a "real" game with C#.

   • Arthur (averseabfun@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 22:27:56 JST Arthur

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     @nixCraft myself

   • Byte Bakery (bytebakery@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 22:49:22 JST Byte Bakery

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     @nixCraft My dad. But the help from Borland Delphi 3 played also a big role. I always was frustrated when there was no example for some functions. I was only 10 back then... good memories 😀