Mack's Corner

There is no doubt every geek remembers his first time… . First project, which introduced his world into the World of Computer Science. I mean the applicable part of Computer Science.

I remember, like it was yesterday. I was playing with my brother in our first computer game. Our first computer – a present, 386SX. The most important game at that time was Bomberman. Up to this days it is one of my favorite. That multilayer mode, it was mindblowing! As you can see . (no damage no fun)
There was no end of the amusement.

One day my dad came and said: “computer is not for games only”. He borrowed for us a book about QuickBasic written by Rita Belserene(still resting on my shelf, not Rita, the book !). Up to these days her last name reminds me this. And that’s how it started.

My first task was to write a calculator app. Even today when I learn a new dev platfrom I start with calculator(just after hello world). Addition, substraction, multiplication, division. After that I implemented some colors. Just to make it looks nice. And all that things inside DOS console. Do you believe?

Unfortunately, the code and screenshots did not survive, maybe it’s better ;>.

However, to refresh the memories, how programming looked like in that time, I include some QuickBasic code.

CLS
SCREEN 12
LOCATE 12,30
color 10
PRINT "Hello, world!"
SLEEP 5
END

At the very beginning, we did the programming together with my brother, but he hadn’t grown fond of it. My adventure lasts up to this days…