how did people back then learn how to program? they didnt have handholding stepping stone languages like python or javascript
How did people back then learn how to program...
Leo Cruz
Gabriel White
Go to school. Read a book.
Jackson Clark
Have you heard of books? Like, physical ones on dead trees? Yes, those. That's how.
Bentley Phillips
Books + practice.
Brandon Phillips
They did. BASIC is what people started on before C. BASIC goes back to the 60s. Before that there weren't many programmers, but those there were were phds in maths or electrical engineering already.
Blake Peterson
it was easier because you didn't have to understand complicated shit, just peek and poke ur memory and hardware registers, documentation laid out transparently, etc
Camden Bennett
the bar used to be a lot lower than it is now, if you had any knowledge at all you were a god
Logan Foster
BASIC and COBOL are pretty similar to Python and JavaScript to be quite honest.
Nicholas Cox
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Noah Mitchell
Listen to an interview with any old school programmer. Almost all of them tell a similar story.
>I got a programming magazine with code to make a game. I hand copied it from the magazine and then started fucking around with it