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Asahi Linya (朝日りにゃ〜)

I swear that's how it works!!!

How did you get into programming? ✨

#CyanTechMeme
17 November at 13:27 | Open on vt.social
21 comments
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@lina omg omg

could you add alt text to this? this is pretty funny :3

17 November at 13:29 | Open on tech.lgbt
Christian Gudrian

@lina
10 PRINT “HELLO”
20 GOTO 10

And Google was called “Data Becker” here in Germany back then (around 1988).

17 November at 13:41 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Mattias Eriksson 🦀🚵‍♂️

@lina
I read computer magazines and typed 2 pages of 64 Basic (mostly peek/poke codes) in to my computer, then spending an hour finding the typos, to finally play some version of space invaders. Great times!

17 November at 13:51 | Open on mastodon.nu
Raynor Vliegendhart

@lina Started with creating simple .bat menus, stumbled upon VBA in Word and later got a copy of VB4 + a book and took off from there.

Google didn't exist yet... 😅

17 November at 14:30 | Open on mastodon.social
professional box/furniture thrower

@lina "I don't understand why my and other peoples computers work and/or doesn't work. This all affects me deeply and in a daily basis. I am now really angry and want to find out why."

17 November at 14:33 | Open on cyberpunk.lol
Jenryk

@lina I wanted to learn how video games are made so I started using löve2D with Lua. Ended up fixing a small bug in a lib and decided thats what I would do for a living.

Did not end up working with games though, but I'm sloooowly learning graphics programming to change that.

17 November at 14:33 | Open on urusai.social
Nyovella
@lina quality meme, and cute art style :D

And googling stuff is fun, and then solving problem, even with googling, is also satisfying and nya and aaaaaa
17 November at 14:38 | Open on akko.wtf
St1ka

@lina I mean, I'm not a programmer but that's how I've gotten most jobs and changed professions so often lol

17 November at 14:44 | Open on peoplemaking.games
Rita

@lina asked my father and he bought me 2 books when I was 12

17 November at 14:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Lydie

@lina There was no Google. We learned BASIC and Pascal from books. We were arguably more efficient coders than most of today's coders

17 November at 15:08 | Open on tech.lgbt
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@Lydie I'm always entertained to tell people that when I started with computers and programming, there was no Google. Nor the web. Not even Linux Howtos. Everything was painfully difficult and I do not wish it for future generations.

17 November at 16:12 | Open on mstdn.games
Lydie

@apzpins I wish today's generation would learn more about how things work under the hood. it's making for shitty code, and AI ain't helping

17 November at 16:15 | Open on tech.lgbt
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@Lydie I 100% agree but that's how it is, the next generation is always going to build over the previous generation's work and in the process lose the sight of the big picture.

This causes people to pile up technologies like legos to achieve simple things like driving a relay, but since what happens below the language they understand is a black box, we see stuff like something made with PHP to control a relay with all kinds of magic libraries and stuff.

17 November at 16:35 | Open on mstdn.games
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@Lydie This is why I advocate people learning to code to also look at how low level stuff works, even if it's just an Arduino making a LED blink, so they don't develop a mindset where they need a cloud service to drive the LED with a ready-made IoT mystery box.

17 November at 16:36 | Open on mstdn.games
Lydie

@apzpins indeed. I can fire up QuickBasic and control relays through the parallel port in just a few lines of code, with zero outside libraries, and it's a cakewalk. Today we have full blown enshittification, and a typical modern app coder would use hundreds of megs of bloatware to do the same

17 November at 16:38 | Open on tech.lgbt
poster

@lina i like html, for me enough :)

17 November at 15:10 | Open on pol.social
Linky~
Imikoy

@lina@vt.social looks at the past programming experience

the past programming experience is near-zero, so if I do start doing cool things it will be because being inspired by you

17 November at 15:50 | Open on meow.miabaka.moe
Malva 🏳️‍⚧️

@lina ALT: A cartoon showing a woman being interviewed. She looks disoriented.
The reporter asks: “How did you become a programmer?”
The woman answers: “I just keep Googling stuff and it keeps working”

17 November at 15:55 | Open on masto.es
cermak_rd

@lina I wanted to make a train cross my TV (using a TRS-80). This was compensation for not having a model railroad. No Google. I had a book.
I still don't have a model railroad, but that project opened a lot of doors for me.

17 November at 16:17 | Open on mas.to
FightScore

@lina I mean, Google helps a lot, for sure. But the fundamentals I owe from my teachers. 😁😁😁 Did anyone ever say, "Google, code this..." 🫢

17 November at 16:22 | Open on mastodon.social
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