I was 14 once.
I was 14 once too…only 3 years ago?! :o
Damn that feels like FOREVER ago. Does time go by much quicker when you’re > 20?
The sense of how fast time passes is directly related to how much you remember of that period.
How much you remember, is directly related to how interesting something is, and whether it is a genuinely new experience.
It is not directly related to age, but when you get older, you tend to get into these patterns and much less of what you experience is new or very interesting.
well “objectively interesting” since you do remember bad things too
I remember staring at the wall thinking “when I’m old and people ask what I did when I was young, I will have to say: NOTHING” (I was mad because I wasn’t allowed playing PSone :D)
Luckily some of my oldest memories are video game related: toy firetruck, christmas tree, playing ATARI 2600(Stampede & Laser Blast), Lightning strikes my house and it was like a sound grenade, Street Fighter 2 on Amiga, vomiting on an airplane
everything somewhere between age 3 and 6
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43yo
- I started off with BASIC in 5th grade after finding a dummies book, then started learning java in 9th
Quoted for truth.
My dad would have screamed at me if I learned basic, ever ;D
My college teaches Quick Basic on first semester. :yawn:
BASIC is the best language, ever.
Cas 
Ah, the good memories of the Acorn Electron! Think I’ve still got one in the loft somewhere, though it died long ago. :’(
Also remember coding a program that played tunes on the Spectrum. Took more tape to save the program than to record the tune it played! ;D
[quote]Ah, the good memories of the Acorn Electron! Think I’ve still got one in the loft somewhere, though it died long ago.
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Same here, mine is stored in my parents loft in the UK, and still works strangely enough.
Programming was great, although was always fustrated as the BBC B was so much better
(mode 1 with 4 colours was fast, and Repton was full screen with excellent sound + other games better).
Suprisingly, I still remember most of the BASIC commands so definitely related to how interesting it was…
Ahhh!! Wash your mouth out with soap! Funny, I never programmed in BASIC. I copied BASIC programs for books/mags but that was it…and it was more than enough. P.S. Why doesn’t Pascal get much nostalgic love?
(I’m 45 BTW)
BASIC is just great. I don’t understand why it’s fallen out of fashion. It just gets so much done for so little faff and pomp, and it’s a piece of piss to teach.
Cas
BASICA was my first programming language, but Turbo Pascal (with the book with the chalkboard on the cover) was my first real experience programming. I remember trying (and largely failing) at trying to write a natural language parser.
Ever heard of freebasic? It allows you to use any DLL you can write a header for. That’s actually how I got into sdl and opengl. (Just a bit of tinkering)
Reckon I could do a better job of it than FreeBasic. If I ruled the world. Etc.
Cas
I always thought I was stupid and could never possibly become a real programmer because I could never understand what those long strings of DATA statements in those BASIC programs I typed in from Compute! magazine actually did. I know there were better dialects to come along later, but I still have no loving nostalgia for BASIC whatsoever.
Good old utterly simple Commodore BASIC is what got me into programming properly for the first time. Along with a bit of BBC BASIC. I had dabbled a bit with Pascal beforehand but being only about 7 or so I didn’t really grasp a lot of Pascal’s concepts.
Later on I really enjoyed using GFA BASIC, STOS BASIC and AMOS. Then BASIC got unfashionable and kinda vanished, roughly around the same time I got a job in the “industry” (doing Powerbuilder, no less, which isn’t that far removed from BASIC anyway).
Cas