Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas
On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Laurie Harper wrote: I'm guessing (from other posts in this thread) you're a little older than I am. That would make your high school pretty impressively forard-looking...! I attended the first computer class given at my high school in 1965. It was kind of a funny situation - one other student and I taught the teacher, who then taught the rest of the class. The two of us had been messing about with computers for two years at that point, and knew a LOT more than the teacher. The course was taught from an obscure little book which illustrated all of its concepts in an assembler code for a non-existent machine. To facilitate the class, I wrote an emulator (in FORTRAN) for the assembler language which was used for several years after I graduated. It was a fun time to be into computers - when most people still didn't know what a computer was. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas
On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Timex Sinclair 1000 by any chance? Agh, you youngsters... My first program ran on a Burroughs 220 that was a vacuum tube based computer! But seriously, I agree fully that having learned on machines that had very limited memory, and having spent a lot of time writing assembler made me a much better programmer. But what I think contributed the most was that all of my early programming was done on mainframes where one compile and run (actually compile, link and run; remember link editors and overlay structures?) per day was considered pretty good turnaround. If you were going to get your programming assignments done on time, you learned to debug code by reading it and thinking until you found the errors. I still make very little use of debuggers to this day, and find the younger programmers completely mystified as to how I ever get code to work. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
