Month: March 2013

In addition to my first code release another trip down memory lane was the Witton Gilbert Primary School towel from 1990. Every drew a self portrait (I think), which were all printed. The end result was:

 

My own picture is central below, you can see why I never considered a career as an artist…..

—
Andrew Waite

 

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