On 27 August 2010 11:50, Mark Harrison wrote:
> This is a genuine question to those currently / recently at Schoo/Uni.
>
> When I was choosing my A-levels (1987), there was a strong piece of advice
> for those who wanted to study Computing at Uni. That advice was "don't
> bother with Computing A-L
I can't answer your question, Mark, as we're peers, but I think that
the BBC Micro was a great teaching tool because it allowed structured
programming in BASIC which most of the other home PCs did not.
Sinclair, and Commodore, both used a lot of GOTO and GOSUB statements.
They were "strictly bann
This is a genuine question to those currently / recently at Schoo/Uni.
When I was choosing my A-levels (1987), there was a strong piece of advice
for those who wanted to study Computing at Uni. That advice was "don't
bother with Computing A-Level, do Maths and Further Maths instead."
This was on
