Little Bugs 2 Pupil's Book

I got a listing of that and on vacation, Christmas or something, I read it and just dissected it. I didnБЂ™t know the language it was written in. which happened to be NELIAC. And it was just a marvelously written program. And I learned programming, NELIAC, Intercom, and how to interpret somethingБЂ”everythingБЂ”from that. I just sat and I read it for probably the entire vacation, a week. And then came back and asked him questions about it, nagging little bugs kinds of things. After that I knew how to program and I was pretty good at it. Then I got jobs programming. I was basically working my way through school, work-study and then odd jobs. I was a research assistantБЂ”a grunt for a graduate student to get programming done for his thesis. And I was a TA. I did programming for the computer center. Part of the computer-center stuff was to sit in a little booth and have people come in and say, БЂњI only changed one thing.БЂ«БЂњWell, letБЂ™s look at that one thing and see what happened to you.БЂ«Seibel: Did that hone your debugging skills or was it all just incredibly stupid stuff? Thompson: It honed that type of debuggingБЂ”you understood common errors really well after that ...»