Comment by sbarre
9 years ago
We had Turbo Pascal taught by a math teacher, who read to us straight from a course binder and admitted to literally drawing the short straw in the teacher's lounge when they were figuring out who had to teach the computer class..
+1 TP by math teacher. Without him, I'd never have become a real programmer.
I only had TP7 back in the 90s. No math teacher needed. The help file teaches itself.
Hah.. our guy barely knew the material... My friend and I ended up teaching the recursion module to the rest of the class because he couldn't wrap his head around it.
Turbo Pascal had a great graphics library, though. Perfect for experimentation with 2D graphics for games and such.