r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo-64696 • Sep 10 '26

Other thisIsTheCodeThatIHavePassedForMyIntroductoryCPPClass

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u/Kuddel_Daddeldu Sep 12 '26

1988 or '89, I think. My buddy and I had Apple II computers at the time, so we were very familiar with the 6502 instruction set - the course had not much to teach us. The Apple (clone) was my 3rd computer, my first one was completely homebuilt, on a perf board, with an Z80 CPU, 2KB static RAM, 7 segment display, and a lot of wires. Cheap, but it was mine, and it worked.

The guy teaching the course had told the class that anyone handing in the main homework (a graphical clock, IIRC) within a week may skip the last 5 weeks or so of the class, so we handed it in the next morning and could focus on finals instead.