{"id":156,"date":"2006-05-06T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-10-07T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T14:06:15","slug":"my-first-program-6thmay2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/my-first-program-6thmay2006\/","title":{"rendered":"My first program (6th\/May\/2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first got bitten by the coding bug by writing a little game on a 486 laptop at school. <\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/helicopterBombingGame.gif?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Not real screenshot<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nIt was a much inferior copy of a helicopter bombing game where you passed lower and lower over some sky-scrapers which you had to flatten before you eventually hit them. It was written in Turbo Pascal.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I found the level of concentration and obsessive nature of programming totally engrossing. I loved it. My next proper piece of coding was in Java. I wrote a cocktail program which could tell you what cocktails you could make given the alcohol ingredients in you cupboard. It was an excellent idea and I might try to resurrect it when I can load it onto a mobile-phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first got bitten by the coding bug by writing a little game on a 486 laptop at school. Not real screenshot It was a much inferior copy of a helicopter bombing game where you passed lower and lower over some sky-scrapers which you had to flatten before you eventually hit them. It was written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}