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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @08:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @08:32PM (#683736)

    1st experience - borrowed Z80 hooked to TV. Totally clueless 16yo.

    2nd experience - COBOL coding sheets, Nashi-Schneidermann diagrams and top-down design.

    Then I went to college. They had that year redirected two senior statistics lecturers to birth the CS Dept. We learned about PL/1, BASIC and a bunch of theory. PCs were a new thing. The lab has brand new rows of TRS-80 machines. Some of us rebels discovered a Pascal compiler on the VAX. Learned to code efficiently as you got ONE second of CPU. Final year we wrote a "compiler" for a theoretical language. Five years later this big Compiler Project had grown into creating a mini-C compiler (by which time I was long gone).

    Then I got some jobs and REALLY started to learn...