I’ve been programming ever since I was 12, when I cracked open a copy of C for Dummies and tried to figure out what all the weird curly braces meant. I loved the style of that book: the first thing it told you to write was a program that spat out “Goodbye, cruel world!” in an attempt to cast off the shackles of convention, and then it told you to ignore half of what you’d written and that it’d explain it later. Perfect for a 12-year old with the attention span of a hyperactive butterfly.
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Compromises
by Samir
I’ve been programming ever since I was 12, when I cracked open a copy of C for Dummies and tried to figure out what all the weird curly braces meant. I loved the style of that book: the first thing it told you to write was a program that spat out “Goodbye, cruel world!” in an attempt to cast off the shackles of convention, and then it told you to ignore half of what you’d written and that it’d explain it later. Perfect for a 12-year old with the attention span of a hyperactive butterfly.
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