Sir Clive Sinclair

[niemeyjt]

I started to learn programing at school.

Now children simply learn apps - I am trying to teach son no 1 to program . . . at 23.

Which approach is right? I guess for many Word, Excel and Powerpoint (or equivalents) will suffice.

[Spectrum]

I started to learn programing at school.

Now children simply learn apps - I am trying to teach son no 1 to program . . . at 23.

Which approach is right? I guess for many Word, Excel and Powerpoint (or equivalents) will suffice.

I have always found the jumper leads one on each ear and a quick 2/3sec burst did work in my days.

[RobertArthur]

@ Doug, in the year that Clive Sinclair joined the tiny editorial staff of Practical Wireless magazine this article about "Amateur transmitting".

[Doug]

@ Doug, in the year that Clive Sinclair joined the tiny editorial staff of Practical Wireless magazine this article about "Amateur transmitting".

Well I didn't have to do a morse code test as was just a ham listener till fm came in didn't need it then.

[Hotrodder]

I had to pass the code test for my ham license, but it was about 5 years after that article was published.

WA6VOF

[MAD87]

I took evening classes in Basic when I got a ZX81 and a big box to double the capacity...
Then we got an Amstrad which we used as a typewriter for 17 years.

[RobertArthur]

In the analogue days of the late fifties they were already busy with miniaturization. The first transistors became available, the tube manufacturers trying to their best with the "D" series, only +90 V anode voltage needed instead of +250 V ("E" series). As used in that Practical Wireless mini-set: "A miniature battery operated receiver using the new low-consumption valves and a ferrite rod aerial." This must have inspired Clive Sinclair to follow this path.

[Char]

I started to learn programing at school.

Now children simply learn apps - I am trying to teach son no 1 to program . . . at 23.

Which approach is right? I guess for many Word, Excel and Powerpoint (or equivalents) will suffice.

I was lot older than 23 when I started teaching myself how to program - I didn't get the chance to learn it at school unfortunately.

For code editing you can use wordpad which comes with windows - I use Atom now a days it's free.

You might find this site helpful for simple stuff.

I'm not sure there's any right approach tbh it depends on what you're trying to do I suppose.

Oh I found codecademy quite useful as well.

[niemeyjt]

I was lot older than 23 when I started teaching myself how to program - I didn't get the chance to learn it at school unfortunately.

For code editing you can use wordpad which comes with windows - I use Atom now a days it's free.

You might find this site helpful for simple stuff.

I'm not sure there's any right approach tbh it depends on what you're trying to do I suppose.

Oh I found codecademy quite useful as well.

At the time, I regretted not taking Fortran and Pascal modules at University. However, as I never needed them after it was no real loss.

Since then, most programing I do is C or Python (or scripting languages) now - at one stage I was involved in C training for a major company until it decided training was not a core business and it was better to pay £1K to an external company than transfer £450 internally to us.

But I digress. Actually, MS Visual Source Safe is one of the best editors I have found due to its modularity - even though I try to avoid MS when I can.

Other good free sites (with some paid content) - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm and https://www.w3schools.com/

If bored this winter (unlikely) I may finally get round to playing with Rust (not on my Land Rover chassis)

[Char]

W3 was one I linked to above - It's annoying when companies 'outsource' unnecessarily isn't it. Especially when they outsource to people who don't know what they're doing, or they pay an extortionate amount for someone to maintain their website, when all that needs doing is running a backup by pressing the run backup button, or clearing the cache because the sites slowed down. Still what do I know eh.

Good luck with Rust it looks interesting.