Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
what are we even doing here man
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
if someone doesn't have experience with arrays, then they don't have enough experience with programming to hire them to program for you. they are still on page 9 of the programming book
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
Specifically, this one.
The Usborne guide to Better BASIC: a beginners guide to writing programs (1983)
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
See? Page 9. Arrays.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7

Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books

Show threadTrammell Hudson
@foone I've posted this page from Usborne's guide to jargon before and commented that I'd be happy if all programmers were as computer literate as grade school students in the 80s.
Mar 7 at 7:36amWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 7
@th god that'd be nice
Show threadnLupo  Mar 7
@th @foone That looks like 6502, because it has an accumulator.
Show threadFaraiweMar 7
@th @foone for comparison, the other day I had to explain to some 20-whatevs-year-old dumbass vibe coder what a "register" is, in a CPU
Show threadPhil Thane ✅Mar 7
@th @foone Back then UK schools used to teach 'computing'. Then some education minister invented Information & Communication Technology (ICT) which in practice meant learning MS Office so you can work in a call centre.