My _very_ first program was one from a magazine. Our classroom had an Apple ][ with *gasp* a color monitor, but nobody had any idea what to do with it. The teacher handed me a program listing and said, "Here type this in and see what happens." What happened was we had a screen full of hearts that shifted colors through the available palette. I was hooked.
I can still remember being in middle school and getting in trouble for using "HGR" instead of "GR" when writing graphical applications on our Apple ][e's. One of my fondest memories is when our school acquired an IBM clone and tried to get the students to use it as well. Nobody wanted to touch it, because we all knew Apples were better and IBM would never last.
In successive years, I think I got a dose of just about everything. Logo and BASIC on the Apples, plus Pascal (I remember needing the two disk drives to compile _and_ run!). Eventually I moved up to teh fascinating land of gwBASIC, where I wrote a fun little program that made nasty crunching type sounds and informed the hapless user that his hard drive had just been reformatted. What made it even more fun is the fact that my teacher talked me into installing it onto the principal's computer while he was distracted! Man, I miss those days....

Guildenstern
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In reply to (Guildenstern) RE: What was your first program? by Guildenstern
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