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nineteen999 ◴[] No.42130263[source]
Why do the words "Steve Jobs" and "programming" in the same sentence very slightly rub me the wrong way. Probably because one thing he wasn't, amongst all the superhuman things attributed to him by Apple zealots, is a programmer.
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area51org ◴[] No.42131395[source]
He actually did know how to code. He and Woz created the classic video game Breakout while working at Atari. (I have no doubt Woz did most of the heavy lifting.) It's not that he didn't know how to program, it's just that coding was not his strong suit.
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1. DerekL ◴[] No.42143124[source]
Note that creating an arcade game at that time wasn't writing a computer program, it was designing a finite state machine out of discrete logic chips.