10.18.2009

Found my old PONG program

In preparation for my MIT application, which is due in less than two weeks, I was snooping around some old files (like 7th grade old, on my 10GB hard drive from that era). I completed my objective: I rediscovered a word document containing a transcribed version of the PONG clone I wrote back then. It's shorter than I remembered (about 55 lines), but somehow also uglier. So I cleaned it up a little and rearranged some of it so it doesn't redraw the screen three times. Now it's 10 lines shorter. It's very simple, but I remember it as my first foray into the world of code. It's hard for me to believe that 7th grade was only five years ago. Anyway, here's the cleaned-up version in a text file (because I don't have a transfer cable or any of that fancy stuff). Enjoy it. I'm not entirely sure whether you can license TI-BASIC code, but whatever portion of that output is legally mine you can reproduce and change so long as you release the result with the same conditions.

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