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50 years after Basic, most users still can't or won't program anything (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same here. I missed the lecture of many math classes figuring out basic on my ti84+. I mostly wrote simple games. The calculator made it easy to experiment since all the functionality could be found in menus or a button somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, same! It's probably a good thing that I didn't know the first thing about Z80 assembly or I'd have flunked hard 😂 I would have loved to make my own clone of Phoenix!