How many people learned to type by typing in programs from magazines? I did.
By the time I took "typing" freshman year in high school I could type 80wpm. No issues. I received an F in typing and couldn't understand why. When I asked the teacher I was told I was typing wrong and had to use home row. Even though my typing was fast with few mistakes, still received an F. The teacher couldn't understand I taught myself to type using a Commodore 64. He maintained there is only one way to type and I explained he was wrong.
Parents and principal got involved. The negotiated result was a B in the class, I had to apologize to the teacher and had study hall for the rest of the semester.
Everything from Compute or Computes Gazette was awesome. You'd type it all in and sometimes it didn't work ... you could wait until the next month when fixes were printed or you could debug and solve it yourself.
This started to end with the release of SpeedScript, which was the first MLX release from the magazine. Since it was machine language you didn't enter the program lines, but numbers.
By the time I took "typing" freshman year in high school I could type 80wpm. No issues. I received an F in typing and couldn't understand why. When I asked the teacher I was told I was typing wrong and had to use home row. Even though my typing was fast with few mistakes, still received an F. The teacher couldn't understand I taught myself to type using a Commodore 64. He maintained there is only one way to type and I explained he was wrong.
Parents and principal got involved. The negotiated result was a B in the class, I had to apologize to the teacher and had study hall for the rest of the semester.
Everything from Compute or Computes Gazette was awesome. You'd type it all in and sometimes it didn't work ... you could wait until the next month when fixes were printed or you could debug and solve it yourself.
This started to end with the release of SpeedScript, which was the first MLX release from the magazine. Since it was machine language you didn't enter the program lines, but numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript
Amazing times.