Do you remember your first bit of code?

[astcell]

Re: Do you remember your first bit of code?

I can't recall the actual first live of code I wrote, but it would have have been BASIC, and it would have been written in 1971. The computer was a Xerox Sigma 6 mainframe at the local university. Access was via an attache-case terminal, which used an acoustic-couple modem running at a whopping 110 baud. The input was a QWERTY keyboard, and the output was a thermal printer.

Was it:
10 print "NIXON'S THE ONE!"
20 goto 10

[Thorn]

Re: Do you remember your first bit of code?

Was it:
10 print "NIXON'S THE ONE!"
20 goto 10

Nah, that was Marty and Cosmo.

[shrdlu]

Re: Do you remember your first bit of code?

I *do* remember my first bits of code, but this thread has really made me feel old. I wrote RPG (please note, I am speaking of the original, not any later version) and used to have a copy of it. A full page of instructions to basically add two numbers together, with a second page that printed the result. Painful. I also did some earlier programming by wire (basically equivalent to setting a bunch of dip switches to on or off, and then a lever to enter the command into the computer, with a final command to run the instructions you'd entered), but couldn't say I "remember" much of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG

The first code I ever did that I found interesting enough to remember would have been in LISP, and was an A* search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm