When we moved house recently I came across several things I had thought had become lost to the sands of time. One of which was my first ever code release, years before I had any ideas of becoming a professional geek (I’d wanted to be an accountant, I know…..).
The most hi-tech equipment my school had at the time was a BBC Micro (which was also my home system at the time) hooked up to a robotic Turtle (which I didn’t have). Each pupil was provided (very) brief instructions to commanding the turtle in Logo and a limited time (~30 minutes, I think) to play before returning to standard lessons.
The result, was my very first code release:
Step
repeat 36 [ FD 100 RT 90 FD 100 RT 90 FD 50 BK 50 LT 90 BK 100 LT 90 BK 100 RT 10 ] END
Stapper
STEP FD 100 STEP BK 200 STEP FD 100 RT 90 FD 100 STEP BK 200 STEP END
Snow
STAPPER HOME PE STEP END
Code
Can’t remember who drew the tutles for me, but it definitely wasn’t my work, thanks to whoever was involved at the time.
Not my best code release (or maybe it is), but not bad for a 10 (and a half) year old Accountant in training.
-- Andrew Waite