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		Aardwolf on Nov 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Uni... I learned programming in QBasic by experimenting with graphics, games and fractals. I honestly think that plotting per-pixel graphics is a much more fun and rewarding way to learn programming, than a cat program. It's only a shame Linux has no "mode 13h" screen and a PSET function in the C language :)

klibertp on Nov 5, 2012 [–]

Shouldn't this be doable with simple library wrapping console framebuffer, that you Linux guys have and I suffer lack of on FreeBSD? (I can be very wrong - I'm just a bit jealous, not jealous enough to dive into fb implementation :))

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