“In some of these periodicals, you’d sometimes have little programs printed that you could, if you were careful and didn’t make any mistakes, enter into an editor on your computer, save, compile and execute”
LOL! Yes!
Astronomy Magazine used to print out programs in BASIC like that every month. I did one in QBASIC that was an orbital simulator that took forever to do, and the debugging was just as long because there was always some command that didnt work with what you were programming with, but to run that and watch it go after you fixed it? That was art right there.
I still write in QBASIC, for old test programs here at work that run on old computers!...............