I remembered my first 'programming' experience. Went to the library and pour through the BASIC books, found an 'I spy' game that only had like 12-15 lines of code.
Went to my friend's C64, typed everything out and then sat looking at the screen after typing 'Enter' for the last statement.
Nothing happened obviously. That damn book didn't teach u about compiling, running and I am not even sure that book was about programming for C64 or what not.
One of my earliest programming gaffs was on a C64, typing in some code from a magazine, which didn't work.
When my dad got back from work, I showed him what I'd painstakingly typed in over the course of what seemed like hours to an 8 year old, and that's when I learned what pseudocode was. >_<
Went to my friend's C64, typed everything out and then sat looking at the screen after typing 'Enter' for the last statement.
Nothing happened obviously. That damn book didn't teach u about compiling, running and I am not even sure that book was about programming for C64 or what not.