You wrote a computer program at school?
I'm really surprised they let someone like you slip through their fingers.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 0:00, 2 replies)

I made a 'turtle' move round the floor by typing commands into LOGO back in 1994, giz a job

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 1:59, closed)

forward thinking head teacher
It was 1970, we had a teletype with paper tape and a dialup to Queens University Belfast (ICL 1906, OS George 3). We wrote in qubal (QUB Algol). Wrote the code, typed it to paper tape, all uploaded from paper tape at 5pm, batch compile and run overnight, listings couriered to school for following day. I should say happy days, but really I much prefer today with instant gratification edit, and interpretive code, roll your own virtual services, etc etc. Probably quite good 'try and get it right first time' training with 24 hr delay for a typo.
J
(jerrykew He who codes last, codes least, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 2:43, closed)

oooh that sounds familiar!
I remember writing code by hand onto paper forms, which would then be sent off to Brighton Polytechnic (as was). A week later we'd get back a stack of punched cards and a printout of the results - which usually told us that they person copying the characters on the form onto the cards had pressed a wrong key.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 14:06, closed)