I’m literally on an internship training course where the Exercises Left For The Readers are implementing Number Guessing Games on the various technologies talked about on the course. I’m like “thanks, but I read about this particular exercise extensively the BASIC age. I’m not going to redo these things unless your training material will have little cartoon robots. Like, you know, in the Usborne books or something.”
As a kid I used to check out books from the library that had little BASIC games you could transcribe into your PC. Times have certainly changed.
I’m literally on an internship training course where the Exercises Left For The Readers are implementing Number Guessing Games on the various technologies talked about on the course. I’m like “thanks, but I read about this particular exercise extensively the BASIC age. I’m not going to redo these things unless your training material will have little cartoon robots. Like, you know, in the Usborne books or something.”
Similar with the computer magazines, before they started coming with floppy disks.
me proudly showing off to my dad that I had spent hours teaching the Timex Sinclair to… balance a checkbook!
dad: my checkbook is already balanced.
me: ahhh, yes well, just imagine though if things had lined up huh??