scott wrote:
>>>   (Another tidbit says that he once has said that the best way to learn
>>> programming is to take program source code which others have written and
>>> study them. IMO this is approximately the *worst* possible way to learn
>>> programming.)
>>
>> Yup, there's me when I was 11 years old, looking at JS code from websites
>> and copying all of the bad practices.
> 
> At least you had websites! When I was learning to program I was too 
> young to afford many books, the library only had 1 programming book on 
> generic BASIC, so the *only* way was to hack apart programs from 
> magazine discs etc to see what OS functions they were calling to do stuff.

I thought you were another Acorn veteran? IIRC the BBC Micro series, as 
well as the Archimedes, all shipped with full manuals, including a BASIC 
programming guide and a full list of BASIC-accessible OS calls. I think 
you had to buy the assembly-language stuff and the complete OS reference 
manual separately, though.

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