Amiga 500. I really enjoyed PEEK/POKE and the whole experience in general. There hasn't been anything in my life quite like BASIC since.
A friend of mine has been volunteering to teach kids using Javascript. He doesn't have much good to say about it. I think the control constructs and syntax were the hardest part iirc.
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
Is conceptually easier to understand than:
for(;;) {
console.log("HELLO");
}
Actually don't type that into your Firefox if that's what you use. It'll just crash. I'm not even sure what Javascript does for looping but I'm sure it's weird.
Things have improved since then but the experience of programming has become something programmers do. There was a paucity of software back then and from my rose-tinted, 20-20 hindsight I think I only started programming when I was a kid because that was what you did with a computer. There wasn't a distinction or any special software to install. It's hard to explain.
A friend of mine has been volunteering to teach kids using Javascript. He doesn't have much good to say about it. I think the control constructs and syntax were the hardest part iirc.
Is conceptually easier to understand than: Actually don't type that into your Firefox if that's what you use. It'll just crash. I'm not even sure what Javascript does for looping but I'm sure it's weird.Things have improved since then but the experience of programming has become something programmers do. There was a paucity of software back then and from my rose-tinted, 20-20 hindsight I think I only started programming when I was a kid because that was what you did with a computer. There wasn't a distinction or any special software to install. It's hard to explain.