Visual Basic! Looxury! I had to teach myself basic using a pile of IBM basic manuals running batch scripts, when I wasn't walking 5 miles uphill in the snow to get to my computer!
I remember the day I made a solar system picture by working out how to draw circles on the screen - sadly I can't remember the command now. I'd run my program and it would paint this picture with planets and stars and rings on Saturn, pixel by pixel with excruciating slowness.
And I thought I was a genius. Compared to the other kids who barely knew how to get their commodore 64s to load, I was.
I remember the day I made a solar system picture by working out how to draw circles on the screen - sadly I can't remember the command now. I'd run my program and it would paint this picture with planets and stars and rings on Saturn, pixel by pixel with excruciating slowness.
And I thought I was a genius. Compared to the other kids who barely knew how to get their commodore 64s to load, I was.