It’s been a while since I posted any bonus content for my few paying subscribers! Since I’ve chosen to put only optional extra content behind my paywall, consistent with the principles I’ve outlined previously, my tendency is to make almost everything public.
However, today I have a treat for any paying subscribers who are interested in my approach to programming and/or who would like to learn to program in TRS-80 Color Computer BASIC. While I’ve already covered the basics of BASIC (pun intended) in previous videos, most notably in my latest World of Code episode, in this exclusive excerpt you can see me thinking through the algorithm I want to use to implement our virtual light-switch, and then programming it on my virtual TRS-80 Color Computer.
The video also provides a glimpse into the relatively primitive world of programming as it existed way back in the 1980s: editing tools were necessarily a lot more basic and unintuitive back then! Besides the need to juggle the use of BASIC as both the programming language and the “operating system”, without a mouse or a dedicated editor, line-editing had to be done entirely with pretty unintuitive keyboard shortcuts.
Besides giving me a chance to share fun bonus content with my few paying subscribers, my hope and my strategy in making paid content available at a deeply discounted price is to give folks a way
to encourage me to devote more time to creating more geeky content of various types, and
to encourage more general paid support of internet content that we actually love, at an affordable rate.
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