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Re:BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 by laurieg on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:29AM (#22691545)
This mirrors my experience exactly. I was really interested in computers and I wanted to learn to program so I could make games.

When I was 10 I went to the library and managed to get hold of a book on C. I took it home, studied it and then typed the programs into Notepad on Windows 95. I had no compiler and no internet. It was literally years before I actually ran a program I had written.

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Re:BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 by dijit on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:05AM (#22691707)
I had the same experience, but the library only had a book on COBOL and the CD with the compiler was missing, so I could write, but never run my code.

Didn't help that there was no internet at home, but that's not the fault of the curriculum.

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