In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC
computer language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many
memories: "Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made
Computers
Personal"
http://time.com/69316/basic/
"And thus, a far higher fraction of students gained a little experience
fiddling
with 12-line programs that would make a pixel move…and thus knew, in
their gut,
that every dot on every screen obeyed an algorithm.”
-andyf
PS. I owned a copy of 101 BASIC Computer Games, and typed in many of them!
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