My earliest still extant program
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manThe process that led to my becoming a software engineer started in 1982, when I joined my school's computer club, where the teacher, Mr Eastwood, proceeded to teach us tykes to program.
I don't have any copies of my first program—I don't think we were given any opportunity to save or print out what we'd done at the time—but here's the first program of mine I have, in, as it turns out, not any digital format at all.
I have to confess, I find myself a little underwhelmed, looking at it, at the quality of my programming when I was eleven (not to mention my ability to leave myself enough paper when starting to write it down). The references at lines 21, 27 and 28, BTW, are to things my family called my brother when he was a toddler.
I don't have any copies of my first program—I don't think we were given any opportunity to save or print out what we'd done at the time—but here's the first program of mine I have, in, as it turns out, not any digital format at all.
![[photo of hand-written computer program]](https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11168913_10153179199771872_64200166101568414_n.jpg?oh=f879b3e23173926f992f642827c313eb&oe=567621AE)
I have to confess, I find myself a little underwhelmed, looking at it, at the quality of my programming when I was eleven (not to mention my ability to leave myself enough paper when starting to write it down). The references at lines 21, 27 and 28, BTW, are to things my family called my brother when he was a toddler.
