Mastodawn

"You know, when I did my first six week introduction to programming course, the highlight of the final day was getting to use the computer"

"Hahaha, hard core!"

"Glad you think so. This interview will be conducted under Faraday Cage Rules; this laptop runs Minix 2.0 with full source code and manuals. Here's the Book. You have one hour to complete exercise seven from Tanenbaum chapter 5."

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Faraday_Rules

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Carlos Solís

That was me back in college, when my computer back at home would freeze ten minutes each time I compiled, couldn't reliably run the debugger at all without running out of memory, and the only connection to the Internet was via a 56k modem that cost a fortune per minute. The result: I had basically a single chance to compile the app and hope it worked - it generally didn't, and I could rarely fix it as I had no assistance whatsoever. I genuinely didn't know how to properly do a for-loop without an off-by-one error, until around year three!