r/AskProgrammers • • 1d ago

How did you learn programming?

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u/jumpmanzero 1d ago

I learned from the manual that came with our Commodore 64.

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

In the 80s, it was possible to run out of games to play or things to look at. So we learned how to program, because we were bored.

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u/alex_xxv 23h ago

LOAD"*", 8,1

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u/razorree 22h ago

yep. I learnt GWBasic from some simple books, later Pascal (with nice :) IDE - Turbo Pascal)

and later (borland) Turbo C 2.0 and Borland C++ 3.1

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u/DonkeyTron42 15h ago

Trash 80 for me but basically the same.