I felt similarly. I did type in a couple BASIC programs, but mostly
didn't get up to any real programming or understanding until I learned
Pascal in high school.
Chris
On 10/5/2010 10:56 AM, Carl Jokl wrote:
I came across my old Amstrad CPC 464 while trying to organise clutter
at the house. It pains me sometimes that I didn't make better use of
learning how to program that computer when I was a child. I did a
little bit but didn't have the grounding in the theory to really
understand programming. There were the programs to type in available
in Input magazine but I would look at the many pages of code and not
have the attention span to sit and type it all out. It probably
doesn't help that in that situation I would just be blindly copy
typing a program without really understanding what it did. A bit like
these students grabbing code of Google. My best friend growing up
started programming at a pretty young age. For my part I wanted to be
an electronic engineer when I was young and not a programmer. Back
then it was easier to play a game someone else had made than learn how
to make one.
I would like potentially to get involved in the universities teaching
of programming. The question I ask myself is that it is one thing to
know how to do something and quite another to be able to teach it to
others. I wonder if one of the hardest aspects may be that I am now so
grounded in the theory that it may be hard to try and look at
programming from the perspective of the students. It would enjoy
helping someone else to enjoy something which I enjoy myself.
I think I have my own degree of attention deficit....oooh shiny!....
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