August 29, 2022

Coding!

I stumbled across the YouTube channel when looking around for retro computing things to watch. I don’t know who this programmer is but he has a super positive attitude and he’s writing a BASIC program on an Apple ][. That’s all I need to know.

He is verbalizing the way I think through my workday. What he’s doing in this video is how I learned to write my first program with a VIC-20 back in 1982. I wasn’t allowed in the high school computer lab until I was a freshman, and then I got to try my chops on the Apple ][+ and new Apple //e machines we had in the computer lab, which was managed by the math department.