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    From David Brooks@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 10 11:48:48 2022
    XPost: alt.computer.workshop

    (Thanks for all the fish! ;-) )

    My younger son could almost have written this article. You may recall
    that I'd provided a BBC 'B' computer in 1983. I was overseeing the
    development of two boys who each obtained an A+ in Computer Studies at
    GCE 'A' level and then went on to obtain good university degrees, one in mathematics and the other in physics. Some of what they learnt rubbed
    off on me!

    https://spooniom.com/open-sourcing-all-my-code-is-belong-to-you/

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    I first learned to code in ZX Spectrum BASIC at around the age of 10.
    It was 1986. More accurately, I learned to type and eventually
    understand the code from various ‘program your own games’ books and ‘Sinclair User’ magazine articles.

    It was a little later that I actually achieved an understanding of the primitive building blocks of the code.

    Quite possibly my young brain was prepped for the logic and structure of programming through my obsession with the essentially ‘if-then-else’
    based Fighting Fantasy series of ‘choose your own adventure’ game books.

    ‘The Warlock of Firetop Mountain’ was the first I remember owning, and I believe the first in the series. They were awesome. My very early
    unguided ventures into coding my own programs were literally
    codifications of these simple narratives.

    I, like many people, have learned a lot of what I know about coding from commercially driven ‘pay for knowledge’ sources such as at university, training courses, and books. However, I am just old enough to claim some
    memory of the relatively early years of open source code sharing.

    So, like everybody, I have also learned a stack from the open source information made available by the generosity, or naivety, nevertheless
    sheer enjoyment of sharing through magazines, blogs, websites, friends
    and various other mediums.

    So, I have decided to dig up and throw into the pot of shared online
    code, a bunch of my own work; better or poorer to be debated, but
    certainly useful.

    Note: I don’t claim that any of this code still works, nor either that
    that which does, is optimal for the task. Much of it is old, some of it
    is new, the context and constraints of the environment it was written
    for are here absent, but it all served a purpose.

    --
    Kind regards,
    David
    Bonus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dUmDBfp6k

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  • From Joerg Lorenz@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 10 15:01:56 2022
    Am 10.07.22 um 12:48 schrieb David Brooks:
    (Thanks for all the fish! ;-) )

    My younger son could almost have written this article. You may recall
    that I'd provided a BBC 'B' computer in 1983. I was overseeing the development of two boys who each obtained an A+ in Computer Studies at
    GCE 'A' level and then went on to obtain good university degrees, one in mathematics and the other in physics. Some of what they learnt rubbed
    off on me!

    https://spooniom.com/open-sourcing-all-my-code-is-belong-to-you/

    What makes this On Topic here? What does it have to do with Macs?


    --
    Gutta cavat lapidem (Ovid)

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Joerg Lorenz on Sun Jul 10 13:08:49 2022
    On 2022-07-10, Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
    Am 10.07.22 um 12:48 schrieb David Brooks:
    (Thanks for all the fish! ;-) )

    My younger son could almost have written this article. You may recall
    that I'd provided a BBC 'B' computer in 1983. I was overseeing the
    development of two boys who each obtained an A+ in Computer Studies at
    GCE 'A' level and then went on to obtain good university degrees, one in
    mathematics and the other in physics. Some of what they learnt rubbed
    off on me!

    https://spooniom.com/open-sourcing-all-my-code-is-belong-to-you/

    What makes this On Topic here? What does it have to do with Macs?

    Absolutely nothing as per usual.

    --
    Cheers, Alan

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  • From Wolffan@21:1/5 to Joerg Lorenz on Sun Jul 10 09:20:41 2022
    On 10 Jul 2022, Joerg Lorenz wrote
    (in article <taeik4$ilc$1@solani.org>):

    Am 10.07.22 um 12:48 schrieb David Brooks:
    (Thanks for all the fish! ;-) )

    My younger son could almost have written this article. You may recall
    that I'd provided a BBC 'B' computer in 1983. I was overseeing the development of two boys who each obtained an A+ in Computer Studies at
    GCE 'A' level and then went on to obtain good university degrees, one in mathematics and the other in physics. Some of what they learnt rubbed
    off on me!

    https://spooniom.com/open-sourcing-all-my-code-is-belong-to-you/

    What makes this On Topic here? What does it have to do with Macs?

    The vile one is posting while drunk again.

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