what are we even doing here man
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@foone but do you know Keyboard (input device)?
@h5e I have heard that there once genuinely was a young man from Japan who didn't know that keyboards existed, and became a proficient programmer of one of the early game consoles, possibly first-generation Famicom, by using the on-screen entry mechanism that came as a demo with some devkit.
And then, he got his hands on a keyboard.
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@h5e I have heard that there once genuinely was a young man from Japan who didn't know that keyboards existed, and became a proficient programmer of one of the early game consoles, possibly first-generation Famicom, by using the on-screen entry mechanism that came as a demo with some devkit.
And then, he got his hands on a keyboard.
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@foone I’m pretty sure I had that book
@JSMuellerRoemer @foone same here.
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what are we even doing here man
You laugh but I joined an org once where because passing arrays to functions required handling references they instead used big CSV strings in 99% of cases. Drove me insane.
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what are we even doing here man
@foone Boy not only do I have worked with arrays, I also have extensive experience both pressing and releasing (!) keys on business workstation keyboards. Am I hired?
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what are we even doing here man
@foone Doesn't Lua use only dictionaries for data structures? IIRC, its "arrays" are just dictionaries indexed by integers.
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@foone Boy not only do I have worked with arrays, I also have extensive experience both pressing and releasing (!) keys on business workstation keyboards. Am I hired?
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@foone but do you know Keyboard (input device)?
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@foone I get redirected to the German site with no option to switch pack (the 404 references a non-existent dropdown menu…)
@JSMuellerRoemer @foone See above https://social.tchncs.de/@flxtr/116186768953309522, worked for me, need to switch via the currency selector.
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@foone Unfortunately links goes to 404
@weirdocollector @foone See above https://social.tchncs.de/@flxtr/116186768953309522, worked for me, need to switch via the currency selector.
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what are we even doing here man
well I mean... the first coding language I learned was Matlab, and it had matrices. I think even the 3D versions of these were just called matrices. Later on it had structs, which were nested matrices. And at some point I stumbled on cell arrays, which were like structs but different. Or something. Maybe 3D matrices were called "arrays."
Anyhoo, eventually I found my way to other languages that did have things called "arrays" (might've been PHP was the first of those.)
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what are we even doing here man
Arrays are a slick gateway drug.
You haven't lived until you've met a well endowed hashtable...
/s
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Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:
Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious
Usborne children's coding books for a new generation
(usborne.com)
@foone The GOSUB robot from "Computer Programming in BASIC" has lived rent-free in my head for 40 years
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what are we even doing here man
LOL, the most important thing to know about a particular array is if it starts at 0 or 1.
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@foone I learnt everything I know from Computer Fun… I still have the book.
@dan @foone I learned everything I now don’t know anymore from this book (which I had)
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@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.
