This is how my first Computer Studies teaching went. Took a week to get the results back! “Error at line 1”…and repeat
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The fortran compiler on the IBM 360 was even better. Put in a 1000 line fortran program and get back "syntax error" with no indication of where the error was.
aug 23, 2025, 12:56 pm • 25 2 • view
lmaohno
aug 23, 2025, 1:03 pm • 3 0 • view
My class was a Vth form secondary. Task: input two numbers, add them and output the result. Could take the entire six week course at one period of access per week via acoustic modem (which was also problematic)
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Wow!
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I did know of one school in the 1980s which taught a GCSE course on ICT whilst having no computers for the whole of the first two terms of a two-year course, and made do with cardboard keyboards!
aug 23, 2025, 7:29 pm • 4 1 • view
Aha. That's why my FORTRAN class used WATFOR (FORTRAN compiler from the University of Waterloo) instead of the IBM compiler. I always wondered.
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