I liked the games, one of my uncles worked for ICL, so I had some understanding that computers could be programmed, and having been given that you've suddenly got a keyboard and built-in BASIC, and you can learn to program so by Boxing Day I was programming. Me? It was on the Spectrum, got one for Christmas in 1983, got some games with it, and started from that. Steve, how did you start programming yourself? Steve That's another thing, getting the expertise in there. I think it is, the scope's great for it but they've not got the skills really in teachers yet. Chrisĭo you think that's really limiting what they're thinking about programming? Steve And of course it is but it's not programming a language, it's laying out a page. It would be exciting, they're starting to use things like Scratch which is drag and drop, so you're starting to learn something about programming, but a lot of schools think programming is HTML for a web page. I'd say it looks quite exciting, but I haven't actually seen what they're doing. They're sort of coming back to that now, getting five year olds to code. It was something new then, and the teacher didn't know much about it, there wasn't a lot of interest in it. I think they stopped shortly after I did it. They had it when my brother went through, but when I was there 3 years later they'd stopped, and were teaching word processors instead. They didn't have any programming when I was in secondary school a few years later. but they did have a course on programming, which for mid 1980s was quite impressive. I was helping everybody else do it, it was really really basic stuff.
No, I think in my final year they had a class on BASIC programming, and it was so simplistic I knew it all already, and finished it in about 5 minutes. So they didn't actually teach programming at your school? Chris I remember struggling with just basic things - you tried stuff, you had an idea that you wanted to do and you didn't know how to do it, you'd find ways to do it, and you gradually learnt how to program. There weren't a lot of books about programming at that time. A lot of it was just trial and error, you just tried things and got them to work. When I started looking at machine code I probably bought a book about 6502 machine code and Z80 machine code. I bought a few books, probably bought a book about BASIC.
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