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Radical Dreamer beat me to the first Computer post so who remebers their first program eg after school we used to sneak into the local Dixons shop where they had the latest Sinclair Spectrum with new thermal printer type
10 LPRINT"SOMETHING VULGAR HERE";
20 GOTO 10
RUN
And then realy RUN
they got wise and banned pupils from entering
Yep! It was a Batch file that started fdisk after boot! (Putter boots then starts Fdisk)
my 1st job was to learn to program in basic in order to write a simple db program in basic, to run on amstrad 1512 pc with 5.25 floppies.
it took months, due to the steep learning curve. my only previous experience was zx basic (spectrum 128)...
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mirc script then html files and then java programs
A simple BASIC "choose your own adventure" deal where you had to kill your brother. Mom and Dad didn't like that one too well.
I remember in my qbasic class in high school me and the guy next to me would write one of those programs that would print the numbers 1-24,000 or whatever scrolling down the screen like
1
2
3
so on and so on up to 24,000 and start them at the same time to see whose computer was faster. Sad thing is doing that and playing qbasic gorillas is about the only thing I remember from that class, and I don't even remember how to write the program.
I started with a phone book program with my DOS 3.1 BASIC. I then ported it over to QBASIC, and then over to Visual Basic. I haven't gotten around to porting it to VBscript. I think I have the original code somewhere too.
Just started to learn programming last month, but my first proggie was changing C temp to F Temp
I wrote my first program in BASIC when I was 12 years old on my C64, and it was something that took simple input and displayed responses (on my television, of course, because I didn't have a monitor).
I wrote it so that if my brother input his name, it would spout insults, and if my name was the input, it would say all sorts of nice things. I think, also, it would ask questions like, "Do you love your sister," and if the input was "no," then the whole system would lock up with color splotches all over the screen.
I thought it was cool. My brother thought it was stupid. He ended by programming career by taking the computer completely apart.
I didn't write anything else until my Java intro class a year ago.
My first QBASIC program I wrote was a program that printed labels for diskettes(On a label like the avery 5160, but in one column pin feed.). You entered the serial number, and label, and it printed a label.
My second program was a login program for DOS that logged signons for Win 3.1. it would run in the autoexec.bat before the win command. You had a fixed user/pass. You would logon in dos before windows started, and if you missed three times, it halted the system.
My first prog was written in QBasic. It was a BIN-To-DEC converter.
The usual "Hello World" infinite loop on the ZX-81. After that it took about 30 minutes BASIC programming to fill up the 1K of memory. :mad:
The "Hello World" program that everyone learning to program writes.
The first useful program, a menu for choosing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fuctions.
I take it we are not talking about typing some program out of Hot CoCo for some text game that you then spent 4 hours adding 'tron' and 'troff' to find the syntax errors? Then it would be some graphic program to fill the screen with all the pretty colors and lines in rapid sucsession.
i have to say my first program was again written in Qbasic, and it shows a little man who waves every time you press the space bar. actually, it was quite a big man, he filled most of the screen.
i still have the code for that :)
the other one would be in aitoexec.bat file, removing all files in the windows/system folder. put that on the server at school a few years back. im amazed they never knew it was me, as im the only one who knew how to do that, and had told several mates :)
ahh well..
My first, after all those silly hello world stuf was a version of Pacman for the Commodore 64, in Basic. I remember working on the game and I was stuck so I stepped away for a few days and at 2 in the morning inspiration hit and by 9 the next morning, exhausted, I had coded the program and had it running. It was text based with custom characters and shortly after that I wrote a version of Centipede for my C-64.
A tutorial program in basic for my math class for learning multiplication tables. Wrote it on my first computer, a Texas Instruments of dubios origin.... Never got into pranks really, used to do a lot of games.
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My first was in 1985 on a 286 in basic, which was a "smart" program where you asked the machine what sort of animal am I, it would then ask you questions until it either figured it out or requested that you tell it what you are, it would then add that animal to it's list.
As a 19yr-old in the mid seventies, got thrown in the deep end being the TV serviceman for a local retail outlet, then we became a full-line (home appliance) Sharp dealer, so got MZ700's and pocket computers. Took pocket one home to do crash course in Tiny Basic, first program asked for a name, then gave a semi-random response, couldn't do much with 4K of RAM. Second one was a promotion display for the MZ700, like "Please take me home!" or get customer to type name, then "Hello CustomerName, wouldn't you like to own me?"
My first prog was a C++ assignment from class. I had to emulate the childrens game "My GrandMother's House." It prompted the user to enter 5 vowels, and then it displayed-->
"I went to grandmothers house and I brought (noun1).
I went to grandmothers house and I brought a (noun1) and a (noun2)
etc."
Kind of boring really. I read some of these posts though and think to myself..."Hey I think I read something about Basic when I was studying for my A+, but I didn't think anyone actually USED it!" heehee. Just goes to show what 10 years can do in the computer world.
Ditto on the PacMan game. I wrote it in Basic when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Nothing really after that until I did a little dbase for my mom in high school.
Whoa Pac man on the C64 must have taken ages i remember copying the code for "CRAPS" out of the manual that came with the VIC 20 took me all day and all i got was "syntax error linexxx"Quote:
Originally posted by Triumph:
My first, after all those silly hello world stuf was a version of Pacman for the Commodore 64, in Basic. I remember working on the game and I was stuck so I stepped away for a few days and at 2 in the morning inspiration hit and by 9 the next morning, exhausted, I had coded the program and had it running. It was text based with custom characters and shortly after that I wrote a version of Centipede for my C-64.
the first thing i ever programed at school was a logon bat file, after found a program tht gave me admin rights on the server. it just kept loopin So and so is god, you all are getting f's and the admins fired cause im better.
well so and so was actully joels first and last name. He use to pick on me so i framed him. Didnt see him for the rest of the year
I would play around with a c64 programming but nothing too complicated. But when I got my 8086 with monochrome monitor I wrote a drawing program to save bitmap files and a drafting program and a space invaders type game, you were Boba Fet from starwars commanding the Millenium Falcon and you had to save your home world from tie fighters. I thought it was very good but the further up in levels you got it got more impossible to play so I never really finished it. Also when I was in Calculus I made this program on one of those TI-86 to do any problem and tell you the steps on how it was done and graph it. It took me a half a year to do but when I got it finished it spread like wild fire....and the AP test was not that far away...he he he...come to think of it I barely used my TI-86 on my test....hmmmm a lot of good that did me...but ha ha I was a legend in my class.