Dave explains the challenges and benefits of learning to code back in the 80s, and what we can learn from it today!
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Dave explains the challenges and benefits of learning to code back in the 80s, and what we can learn from it today!
Man this was good.. this brought back lots of memories. ❤
Great monologue. Sparked lots of memories!!
Fantastic episode! I was there as well with my VIC20 then ‘serious’ C64. It’s amazing how you put into words and captured the sentiment of all of us who went the same route as you in the early days. The frustration management skills have really helped throughout life.
I was taught how to code on time-share machines at college. When owning my own computer became more that a pipe dream, I endured running a two-pass assembler on a cassette-based system (an Oric 1 because I liked the 6502 and who could afford a BBC Micro?). The sweet spot for me was when I bought an Amiga 500, Lattice C, and a copy of K&R. I worked through every exercise in that book, coding them up and learning how the compiler and linker transform your code into a runnable program. Having to switch disks for each phase of the build gave me an insight into what goes on under the hood that has served me well.
Indeed my first computer experience was a TRS-80 in my junior year in high school. Thanks for the memories!
10:57 my small private high school had one of those, too. I credit him with being able to reshape and focus my thinking into structure and abstraction. He taught us Pascal, which for somebody with until then only exposure to basic and assembly, was a great lesson in disciplined organization.
What a lovely trip down memories seldom revisited. Thank you for reminding me some of my most formative years. I can’t thank you enough
As a Commodore kid living in a small town in the 80's, Jim Butterfield's articles and books were a lifeline!
REM Shift-L? Challenge accepted! Great article... took me right back to reading the computer magazines at the supermarket while my parents shopped :) Thank you!
Love it. So true. Brings me back. Ah the 5 and 1/4", The Vic 20.
'A computer is a relentless mirror;' great quote and true for better or worse with AI.
TMS-9900 assembly in the early 1980s on a TI-99/4A. I learned a lot in the 9th grade. Dave manages to keep up with both the past and the future at the same time I wish I had those skills.
What a classic 80's thumbnail. The wood paneling, the architect lamp, push button phone, floppy disk, crt and Commodore. Throw in her 100% 80's sweater and hair and you nailed it. Only thing you missed was a cassette tape with Mixed Tape written on it :) Don't forget taking a break to watch The Whiz Kids.
It also didn't demand a $ubscription. You bought it, you owned it.
Fabulous! That strikes a chord with me, actually a whole symphony! THANK YOU! :)
Felt like reliving my childhood. Great vid as always! Thanks!
‘Stubborn Curiosity’, This is a splendid essay to which I relate. Thanks Dave
As always.....Perfectly on target!!! I still have my first Byte Magazine and PC tech Journal
So Dave remembers typing in games from a magazine. Oh my God Dave... We both sat there and did this in our teenage years... I took a different direction but I'm glad you stuck with it and became a superstar in the computer world. Remember loading beachhead the game on my cameras 64 from a cassette tape. It took 15 minutes to load
You precisely described my experience in high school in the early 1980s. It served me well.