what are we even doing here man

[foone@digipres.club]

@th god that'd be nice

[klausman@mas.to]

@foone What's weird is that I distincly remember page 9 (its illustrations, mostly), but I don't remember the book cover. I grew up in 80s West Germany, so maybe they were used in a different (or translated) book. Definitely a nostalgia hit

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@foone reminds me of the early 80s where we got code form teachers for educational stuff. And one guy understood subroutines by not arrays. He had one that was full of
IF I=1 RETURN V1
IF I=2 RETURN V2
…
Amazing stuff.

[foone@digipres.club]

@klausman yeah, different publishers often use different covers, so I imagine the west german publisher just made their own cover

[flxtr@social.tchncs.de]

@foone For non-us users: the site is guessing your country and redirects to 404 page, if guess != "us" But it's not geo fencing. You need to pick en-us at the home page and then request the above URL again.

[seconduniverse@autistics.life]

@foone hey I know arrays! I can do big ones, small ones, multidimensional ones. I also know variables and indentation!!! Hire me!!!!!!!!

[mahadevank@mastodon.social]

@foone yeah, that's it - arrays - that's all I have experience with, give me a dict and I'm going to be stumped.

No records for me, only a long list of items lol

[mellivora@im-in.space]

@foone was confused for a minute till I saw the full thread... lol

[farhaven@mastodon.cloud]

@foone Easy for you to say. I've been making do with red-black trees all this time.

[farhaven@mastodon.cloud]

@petealexharris @linear @foone Or had one of those insane managers who misread something somewhere once where some problem was caused by someone misuing an array, so they banned all array use in the whole company.

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@foone but do you know Keyboard (input device)?

[henryk@chaos.social]

@revk @foone That is one of my memories from programming as a child. I was ~10 years old. I saw the starry night screensaver in Norton Commander and wanted a similar effect in QBasic.
Lots of copy and paste later I had like 15 pairs of x,y coordinate variables (x1,y1,x2,y2,.…), a cycle counter that goes from 1 to 15, and a shitload of if then clauses: delete star at x1,y1, assign new coordinates, paint star, wait, delete star at x2, y2, etc. pp.
It was awesome, but was hard to add more stars.

[jsmuellerroemer@c.im]

@foone I’m pretty sure I had that book

[jsmuellerroemer@c.im]

@foone I get redirected to the German site with no option to switch pack (the 404 references a non-existent dropdown menu…)

[weirdocollector@livellosegreto.it]

@foone Unfortunately links goes to 404

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@foone
Ooh, they have the text adventure ones

[billgoats@bitbang.social]

@foone

[riley@toot.cat]

@foone Pedant point: there have been some rather popular historic languages that eschewed arrays as we know them for "associative arrays", like Mumps, AWK, and PHP.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gunstick @foone I vaguely recall someone like Atari having a patent on a register that shifts the entire screen left. So someone else (Sega?) made a register that shifts it right instead. It's really annoying that it goes the wrong way, but it avoided the patent.

[riley@toot.cat]

@somekindofgarf

• There’s a minimum crew requirement.
• What’s that?
• One, I suppose.

@foone