Fun with Coding

[hobbitblue]

Well apart from my birthday last week - I am now the answer to life, the universe and everything, i.e 42 (though I could argue this has always been the case... :) ) - the big event was starting the nifty FutureLearn android programming course. Which I saved til my actual birthday, and nicely stuffed with Chinese takeaway made for a pleasantly geeky

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[janewilliams20]

Yay, coding!
Pretty colours not essential. The first game I wrote had green things moving on a black screen, and that was it. OK, so that was on a Commodore Pet, about 35 years ago, but still - coding, and gaming. Fun.

[hobbitblue]

I Still remember the wee game you could type into the ZX81 that made blocky man shaped figure appear, and you hit a key and he jumped and presumably died... i was hooked!

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[ganimede]

It was amusing reading through people's introductions and seeing how many had got into computers/coding from Spectrums, the BBC Micro and other early computers. I know I loved playing around with coding up my own little games in BASIC. And if you've used that too, then hopefully the conditional statements on this week's course will be reasonably familiar for both of us :)

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[hobbitblue]

Have you read about Raspberry Pi? Seems to want to give modern kids the same sort of experience we had with the old BBC Micro etc, which is good, much more interesting for them than just poking Facebook all day long (generalises to dismiss an entire generation of kids with many other pastimes and skills than being FB addicts...*giggle*)