'Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences' by Robert Sapolsky. WhyNot? Idea Exchange. Mappers' Wiki. How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code - Technology. The programming website Project Euler provides a plan for how to learn anything in fun, discrete steps When Colin Hughes was about eleven years old his parents brought home a rather strange toy. It wasn't colorful or cartoonish; it didn't seem to have any lasers or wheels or flashing lights; the box it came in was decorated, not with the bust of a supervillain or gleaming protagonist, but bulleted text and a picture of a QWERTY keyboard.
It called itself the "ORIC-1 Micro Computer. " The package included two cassette tapes, a few cords and a 130-page programming manual. On the whole it looked like a pretty crappy gift for a young boy. But his parents insisted he take it for a spin, not least because they had just bought the thing for more than £129. And so he did. It's not hard to see why. In a way, the ORIC-1 was so mesmerizing because it stripped computing down to its most basic form: you typed some instructions; it did something cool. No wonder Colin got hooked. I wanted in. Do As One.
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