I mentioned the other day about finding #Perl developers. We're still looking. If you fancy working for one of the oldest Tech news sites in the world why not take a look?
(Maybe if we get enough people we might get some kind of ActivityPub integration in place. It's not high on the ToDo list just yet).
@UkiahSmith@scimon Almost everything I’ve ever done has started with learning on the job.* A #developer’s greatest skill is the ability to rapidly adapt and learn new skills. I wish bullet-point #recruiters understood that.
I taught myself #BASIC in the 1980s, later had high school classes in BASIC and #Pascal, Pascal and #HyperCard in college in the 90s, and #Csharp when I went back to finish my degree about ten years ago.
Turn your Spectrum into a true firecracker with this little #BASIC routine from #microhobby . The magazine warns it's not suitable for heart patients!
Edit: press BREAK and type POKE 236007,60 to stop that madness! #zxspectrum#retrogaming
So for tonight I decide to rewrite the leibniz algorithm from #python to #BASIC - in particular #Commodore64 - we had been talking about #Retro earlier...
Cut iterations to 1000 and blew the dust off my brain.
59 years ago today, the first computer program written in #BASIC was run.
The easy-to-learn and -use #programming language revolutionized #computing. A decade later, #BillGates would co-found #Microsoft to develop and sell the BASIC interpreter for the #Altair 8800, the first commercially successful desktop microcomputer.
@mjgardner@Cloudguy I learnt to program in #BASIC. I have recently returned to programming or is it coding nowadays, with Python. All the things I learnt with BASIC have been very helpful.
I first learned it as a child on the #Commodore PET and #C64. Does that say anything about the current quality of my #SoftwareDevelopment? At least I don’t pine for line numbers, GOTO and GOSUB.
Hi, I'm Paul, a tech programmer in the games industry.
I'm a Technical Director at Assemble Technology in the UK working with a number of studios.
I've made many silly things in #shadertoy that would make more sense written in anything but shadertoy.
I've made lots of small #BASIC programs for the #BBCMicro via @bbcmicrobot
I also made some #demoscene things, mainly executable graphics productions and silly programs for old hardware.
A small update to the alternative #PC operating systems list beside #Linux and #BSD - If you want to try something #new and use either way and only #basic functions & programs on your #desktop, you might want to try these: