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Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by dunstad on Saturday January 14, 2012 @11:32AM (#3464518)
How did you learn programming on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic?
Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by jgw on Monday January 16, 2012 @10:44PM (#3473661)
My Mum had bought me a book called the Usborne Guide to BASIC Programming, as my Dad has just bought an Osborne 1 computer for his new consulting business. So on our way across the Atlantic on a Polish vessel from Montreal to Dover, I was enthusiastically learning about programming while the machine sat, frustratingly, in the cargo hold, inaccessible to my eager mitts.

I still have the Osborne 1. I last powered her up in 2005, when Adam Osborne passed away.

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by dextorious on Saturday January 14, 2012 @01:28PM (#3464846)
Probably found some book or magazine about programming in some cruise ship...