St Andrew's College(raganwald.posterous.com)
raganwald.posterous.com
St Andrew's College
http://raganwald.posterous.com/st-andrews-college
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On a side note, I wish private schools (specifically like SAC, UCC, Crescent and others) would start showing the importance of programming at a young age.
"If you do things that make people happy, you will find a way to your own happiness."
While this has been true, in my limited experience, it can be a slippery slope. The, possibly unintended, message I got from the post is more along the lines of "Do things that you enjoy. You'll probably bump into a few people who enjoy the things you've done, which will make you even happier doing them."
While this has been true, in my limited experience, it can be a slippery slope. The, possibly unintended, message I got from the post is more along the lines of "Do things that you enjoy. You'll probably bump into a few people who enjoy the things you've done, which will make you even happier doing them."
wow, saw this come up on HN, did a doubletake. Toronto/York Region/Canada represent.
SO, this guy WROTE the original 'Adventure'? I saw it first in FORTRAN; how did that happen - he talks of programming in BASIC.
I did not write THE adventure, I wrote AN adventure. I'm neither that old nor that creative!
Other games:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_ga...
Other games:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_ga...
Yes, but now I know who to blame for all the time I lost playing TREK :)
(Thank you!)
(Thank you!)
Anybody else play TTYTRK? PATROL? COMBAT? all Basic games.
leverbak
> To read them back in, you fed the tape into the terminal and it simulated typing your source back into the computer.
reminded me of this story (which came at a much later date):
> A senior NASDAQ official saw Peterffy's setup and said Peterffy was breaking the rules: All orders had to be entered through the keyboard. He gave Petterfy's group one week to fix the problem.
> Peterffy and his engineers came up with a solution. They built a robot with rubber fingers that typed entries into the keyboard.
(from http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father...)
Edit: It's a side note to the posted story, but it's interesting to me that we replace technical limitations with policy limitations.