Being much younger than Stanley, I wrote my first program as a junior at Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve). It was an introductory programming course in ALGOL.

The only interesting thing I remember is that we put our own cards into the card reader. We physically queued up at the card reader. The computer was a Univac 1107. The operating system ran on magnetic tape and the scheduling algorithm was that student jobs ran during odd hours, but not during even hours. So if you read a job into the card reader at 9:59, you prayed that it would begin execution before 10 because they would flush the student queue.

Bob

Prof. Bob Kinicki