The year was 1979, the screen was black and the text was orange. This was the year Dr. Nelly Cardinale purchased her first computer, an Apple II. It came with four textbooks on programming and nothing else. “If you wanted to do anything on the computer back then, you had to do it yourself,” Cardinale […]
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in All Posts, Instructor Stories/by zyBooks StaffThe year was 1979, the screen was black and the text was orange. This was the year Dr. Nelly Cardinale purchased her first computer, an Apple II. It came with four textbooks on programming and nothing else. “If you wanted to do anything on the computer back then, you had to do it yourself,” Cardinale […]
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