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I really don't recall what my first program was (that I didn't just type in from a book). I remember the posh computer mags those days sometimes came with cassette tapes, so you didn't have to type in those 8k programs.

The only thing I remember programming is that at some point, I wrote an assembler of sorts for the Vic-20's 6502. I used that to help me write a "galaga" style shoot-em up game (I flatter myself ... it presented a field of moving "stars" that scrolled down the screen, and you could move through the field and shoot an occasional target that scrolled down but couldn't move left-to-right). Now, I bet I couldn't do anything nearly as 'sophisticated' without a lot of work =)

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RE: What was your first program?
by lemming (Priest) on Nov 14, 2000 at 00:26 UTC
    I don't remember what we programmed on the PDP (probably a couple math programs in fortran), but then we got some Commodore Pets.
    I did a lame missile command style game and then there was an "animation" assignment. Besides the actual one I did a quick one that was more of a gordian(sp?) knot solution.
    You could print horizontal line characters from top to bottom. There were eight of them. I printed that with no line return and then just looped.
    That would wrap and it made a good impression of a wheat field being blown by the wind.
    The teacher was a bit miffed when he found out it was a two line program.
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