Dan Dreams of Coding personal blog

Shutting Down a Dream

by Dan dandreamsofcoding.com published 2013-08-076 min read

When I was 17 years old, I wrote a little Applesoft BASIC program to help myself memorize vocabulary for my Spanish class. When I went to college, I wrote a new version for the Mac, adding special features for Japanese. Senior year I wrote two new versions – one for my

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