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My journey from child programmer to adult concerned about where the next generation of child programmers might come from, mostly told in pictures
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Wild Romance
A Tale of Digital Passion
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prologue
pre-1981 computers were for technicians
post-1990 computers were for professionals
but in the 1980s they belonged to children
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i. in the beginning
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colourful graphics
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low-fi sound
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cheap offline storage
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system in ROM
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booted into BASIC
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ii. words & pictures
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Elric sent his mind into twisting tunnels of logic, across endless plains of ideas, through mountains of symbolism
and endless universes of alternate truths; he sent his mind out further and further and as it went he sent with it the words [...] words that few of his contemporaries
would understand...
- Elric of Melniboné, Michael Moorcock
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I love BASIC
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simple but powerful
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looks a bit like English
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easy to think about
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not an operating system
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but fakes it well
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and I wrote this with it...
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iii. let’s get serious
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iv. hackers & gamers
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v. teach the children
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vi. hackety hack hack
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vii. raspberry + pi?
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