Let me step away from Reaktor for a moment and put out a couple of general thoughts. Since my early ages I was quite a computer-geek person. I started to harvest my first programming skills with BASIC on my first ZX-Spectrum 48k machine. It was something like 13-14 years ago, I was truly shocked that you get a programming language a moment after you turn the computer’s power on. It was so simple to begin. I was a 11 years boy, I didn’t have a clue about a programming theory or even English language. But I did see a flashing [K] cursor and 40-keys keyboard. And I had one of most powerful tools to get a result - “method of a scientific guess”, in other words I’ve just tried all of the commands and operands combinations to comprehend Basic, my first programming language The key of my success on learning BASIC is ZX-Spectrum’s usability: 1. BASIC “flashed” in ROM (Read Only Memory, no need to load anything); 2. Few commands per key (no need to type commands letter by letter). So, these simple tricks of sir Clive Sinclair have created my ideology and vectored my biography path.

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