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There was a BBC Micro at primary school.
We didnt have any sort of structured way of learning it (or maybe I was just too young).
There was educational material, like "grannies garden", and "pod" where you could type "pod can pop" to make the poor tomato explode.
Because it booted straight into BBC Basic I quickly found out how to print things with different colours to the screen.
I went to 3 different secondary schools and they all had BBC Micros, Archimedes and PCs.
There didnt seem to be any teaching about programming.
There were books around about stuff about 6502, but it was a bit beyond me at age 12.
The kids interested in computers would go and use them at the lunch breaks.
By the 90s the only computing related teaching was about how to use word processors.
Later I took computer studies at college where we learned coding proper, funnily we still had an "ICT" module, which was really "how to type".
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There was a BBC Micro at primary school.
We didnt have any sort of structured way of learning it (or maybe I was just too young).
There was educational material, like "grannies garden", and "pod" where you could type "pod can pop" to make the poor tomato explode.
Because it booted straight into BBC Basic I quickly found out how to print things with different colours to the screen.
I went to 3 different secondary schools and they all had BBC Micros, Archimedes and PCs.
There didnt seem to be any teaching about programming.
There were books around about stuff about 6502, but it was a bit beyond me at age 12.
The kids interested in computers would go and use them at the lunch breaks.
By the 90s the only computing related teaching was about how to use word processors.
Later I took computer studies at college where we learned coding proper, funnily we still had an "ICT" module, which was really "how to type".