Me too! (Well I started first in basic, but HyperCard was where I did my real first programming)
I made so many crazy games in HyperCard. I had no idea what I was doing either; I had countless hidden fields that I used to store data, serialized with my own custom format.
My biggest 'magic' moment in hypercard was this technique called one-card animation that I copied out of some book. It was basically a script to direct the lasso tool to select an area on the screen, then slowly drag it across the screen. Having it work seemed magical in that I had told the computer what to do and it listened. Been hooked on making software ever since!
Your magic moment reminded me of my first one (although a much less exciting one than yours!)
I was 7 years old and reading my first BASIC programming book... I read how to use a PRINT statement, and ran into my parents room exclaiming how I could print something to the screen!
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Hypercard was what I first started developing on back when I was young. Great to see it come to life again.
Javascript instead of Hypertalk though... ;)
Me too! (Well I started first in basic, but HyperCard was where I did my real first programming)
I made so many crazy games in HyperCard. I had no idea what I was doing either; I had countless hidden fields that I used to store data, serialized with my own custom format.
I loved it though. So much fun!
My biggest 'magic' moment in hypercard was this technique called one-card animation that I copied out of some book. It was basically a script to direct the lasso tool to select an area on the screen, then slowly drag it across the screen. Having it work seemed magical in that I had told the computer what to do and it listened. Been hooked on making software ever since!
Your magic moment reminded me of my first one (although a much less exciting one than yours!)
I was 7 years old and reading my first BASIC programming book... I read how to use a PRINT statement, and ran into my parents room exclaiming how I could print something to the screen!
I have been hooked ever since.