Ask HN: What is your first piece of code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3360279

by kalerzee • 15 years ago

4 13 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

My first piece of code is printing triangle on screen.

j_col• 15 years ago

Making a sprite of a balloon move across the screen of my Commodore 64 in BASIC (the code came in the manual with the machine).

madhouse• 15 years ago

A jumping man, in C+4 BASIC: clear screen, draw an ASCII stick figure, for loop to wait, clear screen, draw stick figure in different position, for loop to wait, goto 10.

I still know it by heart, though it was written more than two decades ago.

kalerzee• 15 years ago

So complex.

kingofspain• 15 years ago

I can't remember, but it would be whatever is the first listing in this: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicProgramming/frontcvr...

Natsu• 15 years ago

It was some form of:

  10 PRINT HELLO
  20 GOTO 10

on an Apple ][ GS when I was ~6 years old.

chris_dcosta• 15 years ago

Something similar on a Commodore PET at school. Aged 11ish.

dholowiski• 15 years ago

Same, on a TRS-80 when I was about 14.

bromagosa• 15 years ago

Same, on an MSX when I was 8 :P

mikegirouard• 15 years ago

Ditto, except mine was in QBasic on a DOS box.

kschua• 15 years ago

INT 20H

Got me started on programming way back in the mid 80s. Once I knew how to make a program exit, I was more confident of writing more code

mdoyle• 15 years ago

On the ZX Spectrum:

10 PRINT <something>; 20 GOTO 10

I was hooked from that point on. Brings back memories.

dubya• 15 years ago

Maybe not the first, but I remember typing the line

## REM TYPE "IS A FLASHY PERSON" IN INVERSE VIDEO

from a listing in the little manual that came with my Atari 800XL, before I new what REM meant.

bartonfink• 15 years ago

A "password" program in basic that sat in a loop checking input unless you typed in a hardcoded string. Not exactly production quality.

Ask HN: What is your first piece of code?

Related Stories