Comments on: Article: Basic Computer Classes Near Extinction http://www.hatesomethingchangesomething.com/article-basic-computer-classes-near-extinction/ Ideas to be successful in business. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:56:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: martoon http://www.hatesomethingchangesomething.com/article-basic-computer-classes-near-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-3 martoon Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:02:59 +0000 http://www.newmediasandbox.com/2006/06/27/article-basic-computer-classes-near-extinction/#comment-3 my first programming experience was in 1979 with Milton Bradley\\\'s BIG TRAK. A six-wheeled tank with a blue \\\'photon\\\' beam and a keypad on top. \\\"The toy could remember up to 16 commands which it then executed in sequence (such as \\\"go forward 5 lengths\\\", \\\"pause\\\", \\\"turn 30 degrees right\\\", \\\"fire phaser\\\" and so on. There was a \\\"repeat\\\" instruction allowing simple loops, but the language was not Turing complete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtrak http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/bigtrak/ my first programming experience was in 1979 with Milton Bradley\\\’s BIG TRAK. A six-wheeled tank with a blue \\\’photon\\\’ beam and a keypad on top. \\\”The toy could remember up to 16 commands which it then executed in sequence (such as \\\”go forward 5 lengths\\\”, \\\”pause\\\”, \\\”turn 30 degrees right\\\”, \\\”fire phaser\\\” and so on. There was a \\\”repeat\\\” instruction allowing simple loops, but the language was not Turing complete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtrak

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/bigtrak/

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