- Beginner 27s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Tutorial Pdf
- Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Beginner 27s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code Tutorial Pdf
When I was 7, my mum enrolled my sister and me in a computer programming course (sister was 9 or had just turned 10). I was below the minimum age for the class, but I was also at that tag-along stage where I just go with my sister where she goes so mum has some hours to not be driving us somewhere, and can focus on her work, or having a summer (this was Lagos, where December is almost as hot as June, but work with me).
Well, so we learned a language called BASIC, Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. I loved counting in tens, which I had to do for each line of code, and I loved for statements and GO TO commands, and drawing flow diagrams, gosh did I love drawing flow diagrams! We had a class test and I remember scoring 7 or 7-and-a-half out of 10 and the teacher praising me to high heavens because everyone had assumed I had just come there to play Pacman and Prince of Persia and Space Invaders while I waited for my sister to learn stuff. Yet there I was, learning.
So that was my first experience with programming, well, besides playing around with some punch cards we had lying around the house for whatever reason. Fast forward to when I was 14 or 15, and we got an iMac G3 for the house. The mini living room at the top of the stairs suddenly became the place to be in our house — whether to watch my sisters be Ryu and E. Honda at a very early version of Street Fighter, or to try my hands at yet another web site design using FrontPage. Our internet connection was still choppy at best, you’d literally read two pages of a novel while waiting for one light page to load. But it was the late 1990s and there was this beautiful new world of motion and interactivity, and beyond Solitaire and Microsoft Word’s Marching Ants text effect, we were a real part of it.
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a computer programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use, developed in the mid-1960s by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. They want to allow students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. QBasic Tutorial INTRODUCTION TO QBASIC BASIC stands for Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was invented in 1963, at Dartmouth College, by the mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas. BASIC is an interpreter which means it reads every line, translates it and lets the computer execute it before reading another. BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Because it is all-purpose, it cannot be the perfect code for any specific job. The fact that ML speaks directly to the machine, in the machine's language, makes it the more efficient language.
2001, I was taking a gap year at home before university. A family friend asked what I would like him to bring me from the States. At that specific time in history, Manolo Blahnik X Timberland heeled boots were new and in, and every Nigerian high-school girl wanted a pair. As did I. Yet I said I wanted a programming book. Let’s pause here to absorb the painful asceticism inherent in this decision. I had it in mind to study computer science at university, and I had been learning JavaScript at Aptech, a local computing school, but still. Disciplina pura y sencilla.
First year of University, I moved countries. I was also learning assembly language, which was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. When I was 7, I had read in my sister’s France Afrique textbook, a short story of a girl who goes to Paris, and I had decided to myself then that I wanted to learn French, possibly with dreams of going to Paris. Learning a core computing language was like preparing to go to the Paris of computers; I just didn’t know then how long and fulfilling a journey I was embarking on.