Re: bedtime with Daddy
Steven Gabriel (sgabriel@willamette.edu)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:52:30 -0800 (PST)
> Why, Oh Why, couldn't Daddy have sat me in his lap as a child and read to me
> stock market reports or lines of computer programming? I'd have soooo much
> more money now... :)
Along with a healthy dose of bedtimes stories, computer programming was
part of my ubringing. At about age 7 or 8 I wrote my first program with
my mother alongside watching me hunt and peck on a dusty, already "old"
Atari 800. We made a lovely little game wherein you had to guess a number
between 1 and 100 with help after each guess (i.e. guess higher or guess
lower). I was entranced.
But .... years later I shunned the Silicon Valley and professional
computing. I'm still fascinated though that with only a few minutes of
typing I can make an old Radio Shack TRS-80 spit out random colours and
beeps. =)
In other words, be careful what you wish for. =)
Maybe in a couple of years when I'm teaching my first intro computing
course I'll drag out my old Atari.
-S.
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