{"id":1317,"date":"2013-09-26T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2013-09-26T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:58:06","slug":"storylines-and-pair-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/storylines-and-pair-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Storylines and pair programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I was approached to give a talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/storylineschapter.org\">Storylines<\/a>. \u00a0I agreed, and we finally managed to get our schedules lined up so that I could give my talk last night. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on it for a few weeks leading up to it, trying to figure out what I can share that would be useful and meaningful to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>As I was working on it, I was thinking about how I first got into computers in the first place. \u00a0When I was a kid, my dad was an enthusiast, and he got a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timex_Sinclair_1000\">Timex-Sinclair 1000<\/a>. \u00a0He and I learned BASIC on it together, transcribing BASIC programs printed in computer enthusiast magazines into it, and then fixing the inevitable bugs (some typos, some transcription errors, some errors in the code as printed in the magazine). \u00a0Later on, he got a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRS-80_Model_100\">Radio Shack Model 100<\/a>, and we upgraded from transcribing BASIC programs from magazines to transcribing BASIC programs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0932760171\/littlebluewor-20\">books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back on learning BASIC with my dad, I realized that we were doing pair programming long before it became a thing. \u00a0We were way ahead of the curve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I was approached to give a talk at Storylines. \u00a0I agreed, and we finally managed to get our schedules lined up so that I could give my talk last night. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on it for a few weeks leading up to it, trying to figure out what I can share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/storylines-and-pair-programming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storylines and pair programming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-nadyne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}