Teaching myself to code listening to Alphaville.

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

Lots of luck learning, I hope you have smooth sailing coding 🤞🙂

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

I can't lie- after a lifetime of indifference to computers and outright hostility for math, it is not.

But I call it my autistic midlife crisis. I'm too blind to drive, so I turned 40 last year and got the bug. Now it's something of a mad obsession.

With a little luck my calcified old brain will regain little elasticity.

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

Hey buddy I'm on the spectrum too and dyslexia lol I feel the same way I suck at math and programming has always seemed so daunting.

I hate networking 😆 anything else computer wise really peaks my interest.

I think you can do it and do wish you lots of luck I hope you get your head round it and have fun were ever programming leads you 🙂👍

Even if you just play around and have a bit of fun that's what matters 🙏

I'm very sorry to read about your sight failing that really does suck !

Feel free to keep in touch I'm very curious what you end up coding and tinkering with.

All the best buddy 😁

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

To you as well, my friend.

Here's another machine I've been trying to wrap my head around...well, an emulator at least.

https://s2js.com/altair/

I saw the 8800 in a history book as a kid and I couldn't even understand how it even was a computer. I now understand...a little.

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

I'm semi familiar with the Altair and it playing a tune called daisy 🙂

There was a brilliant documentary from the early 2000s on discovery channel all about the phone phreaking and early computer club era

I had no idea there was an emu for the Altair though 👍🙂 makes sense and does peak my interest thank you

If your interested I will try and find the discovery doc.

This is a favorite informative and a good laugh too I think/hope you will enjoy 🙏 https://archive.org/details/XD1891_SIliconVllyInnovationandtheHistofModComp

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Oh yeah, I'm fifteen minutes in and can't help but think how quaint it is. The way they speak of the importance of networking as they enter the 21st century- makes one wonder if they could have foreseen how far we advanced and fast we did so. Then I looked up Douglas Englebert and Englebert's Law and yeah, old boy very much (probably) could forsee where we were then headed. This really is fantastic stuff!

(I do think ir would break his poor old heart to see how the tech he was so optimistic about is being used to mislead and reduce attention spans, rather than enhance. Something I struggle with now after less than a decade of short-form media.)

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

I agree there's positives and negatives of technology and how it is used , I'm very happy you are enjoying the video/talk I have a soft spot for Douglas Englebert he's so humble and seems kind plus easy going and a good sense of humor, most definitely a visionary 👍😁

They are all very smart chaps 👍😁

I hope the history of hacking (documentary) is enjoyable too, I gave it a rewatch earlier.

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

Best rip I can find discovery doc 🙂 https://youtu.be/PUf1d-GuK0Q?si=sHZpvV6StwaoIoXy

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0KlausAdler0@reddit

https://youtu.be/Gweindvyeu8?si=1H_VLG0pCmnnX5M7

Discovery doc feat Altair

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porthos40@reddit

As kid love programming on commode 64. Make you get into Assemble language https://commodore.software/downloads/download/971-software-manuals-c128/18617-midnight-assembler-system-manual-commodore-128

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

That's the next step.

I want a firmer grasp on BASIC first.

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TechDocN@reddit

BASIC will not help you with assembly or almost any other coding language. If your interest is 8 and 16 bit machines (I’m an avid 8 bit computer collector), assembly is the way to go.

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

I get that. I'm looking to BASIC to better understand how the machine does what it does. How moving things from this place in memory to that and which part of it you're utilizing determines how the programs operate. I am not and have never been tech savvy in any capacity. So learning from the ground up is as informative as it is fun. Just a little white whale, y'know?

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FAMICOMASTER@reddit

FWIW basic isn't a great teaching tool if you intend to someday go to the modern world

Source: I learned on basic and I have zero concept of how OO languages work

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

I appreciate it, but I no interest in anything beyond eight and sixteen bit machines.

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FAMICOMASTER@reddit

Fair enough, I suppose. You would probably be best served learning assembly or C, then.

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

My next step is assembly. Toyed with it a bit.

But really am enjoying BASIC for now.

Plus I feel I'll take to assembly a little quicker once I have a solid grasp of thr former.

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probably_platypus@reddit

Mmm. Spaghetti.

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

I love spaghetti.

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johnlewisdesign@reddit

10 POKE 53281,1
20 POKE 53280,1
30 POKE 53281,0
40 POKE 53280,0
50 GOTO 10

Voila, a strobe (mandatory epilepsy warning)

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Squeepty@reddit

The band?

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

Aye. The music for the sad man, and all. 😜

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mdgorelick@reddit

I want to be forever young…

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

That's the goal. 😁

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TygerTung@reddit

I've got the LP here. Good album.

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mdgorelick@reddit

“Jet Set” a favorite Alphaville song.

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ScudsCorp@reddit

BASIC with everything crammed into a single line makes me slightly mad

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

And I'm legally blind over here trying to keep pace with the text I'm copying. 😝

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Euphoric-Divine@reddit

I'm surprised c64 basic hates spaces so much "IFAP=36ANDAR=..." could have been "IF AP=36 AND AR=..." which is so much easier to read

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thewalruscandyman@reddit (OP)

Oh yeah, it's spaced in the books at least. But some of these programs require crunching like this as spaces would make them exceed the two row per l I ne limit.

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