From: jpo@tiggr.dk   
      
   On 29/10/2022 21.29, Ant wrote:   
   > Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)   
      
   In 1980, I was a freshman at Davis High School in Kaysville, UT.  I had   
   a maths teacher who was very interested in computers, and with his own   
   money, he bought an Apple II which he brought to our school to teach   
   computers.  We also had access to an IBM S/360, but it was a lot more   
   cumbersome to work with, so the Apple was soon a favorite for all, and   
   the school recognized the value of the computer class and bought another   
   five Apple IIs.   
      
   After a few months, I had learned enough about Applesoft and Integer   
   Basic, that there wasn't more my teacher could teach me, so a junior and   
   I became friends, and started learning Pascal and 6502 Assembler.  Our   
   teacher recognized this and asked us both to be tutors for students with   
   difficulty learning the Apple, and as teachers for those who wanted more   
   advanced knowledge of the Apple, so from early 1981 to summer 1982, my   
   friend and I tutored, taught Apple Pascal and 6502 assembler.   
      
   As mentioned, our teacher was also teaching maths, and in my sophomore   
   year, my friend and I were taking analytical geometry.  Neither of us   
   liked all the work, solving the equations and creating 3D graphs of the   
   result, so we decided to "teach" the Apple how to do it and then just   
   copy the answers to paper.  And then ... we got found out.  We were both   
   sure we would be suspended and have to retake the course.  But to our   
   luck, our teacher understood that to program the computer to solve the   
   maths, we would have had to fully understand it, and we both ended up   
   getting 'A's in both maths and computer. :-)   
      
   I still write programs in 6502 assembler, just for fun, and to keep the   
   old brain cells working :-)   
      
   --   
   Jan Poulsen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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