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how many of u mfs cut your teeth on basic
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arguably basic is a programming language
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Dec 17, 2023 11:31
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based by definition
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Dec 17, 2023 11:32
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post your fave post peeks and gotos itt
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Dec 17, 2023 11:32
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I spent most of my life from like 9 to 13 in AMOS in my amiga it was basic. it let me draw dots and lines. pretty much the pinnacle of IDEs
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Dec 17, 2023 11:35
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atari owners had STOS.. lmao at those sad sack mfs
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Dec 17, 2023 11:35
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basic has been much maligned but honestly i've come around to thinking it is a better introduction than most supposed (pure) teaching languages
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Dec 17, 2023 11:38
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there was a vibe that it taught bad practices imo .. people aren’t stupid and can easily change strategy basic gets the wheels moving
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Dec 17, 2023 12:27
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bapsic
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Dec 17, 2023 14:22
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fuckin around in gorillas.bas to change the physics or make the sun have funny expressions
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:basic has been much maligned but honestly i've come around to thinking it is a better introduction than most supposed (pure) teaching languages  everyone now has multiple felonies and is spending a Ulysses S. Grant a day at Somethingawful.com
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Dec 17, 2023 18:26
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Captain Foo posted:fuckin around in gorillas.bas to change the physics or make the sun have funny expressions 
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Dec 17, 2023 18:27
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echinopsis posted:people aren’t stupid this is where you’re wrong, buddy boy. you’ve never met someone whose brain has been permanently damaged by Perl, php, or one of many other terrible languages.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:21
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10 PRINT "PENUS "; 20 GOTO 10
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Dec 17, 2023 19:24
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jony neuemonic posted:bapsic
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Dec 17, 2023 19:28
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sick baps
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Dec 17, 2023 19:29
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The Management posted:this is where you’re wrong, buddy boy. you’ve never met someone whose brain has been permanently damaged by Perl, php, or one of many other terrible languages. i mean yeah tbf I don't even work anywhere near programming so I don't really know anything but i can use words that make it appear like I have heard of things
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Dec 17, 2023 19:41
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reading about why basic is bad and I don't understand this quote:one of my science classes and did a lab involving NaOH, and the pH of 13/14 makes it one of the most basic substances. The bottle warned us that it was corrosive, which caught me off guard. I was under the impression that basic meant not-acidic, which meant gentle. I’m clearly very wrong, especially considering water has a purely neutral pH.
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Dec 17, 2023 19:48
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im a BASIC bitch
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Dec 17, 2023 20:11
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basic is fine for beginners. it’s easy and it can do simple things. the subroutine calling is archaic, but it works for starting to learn things. Visual Basic will rot your brain, especially if you try to do anything big with it
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Dec 17, 2023 20:39
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bapsic
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Dec 17, 2023 20:47
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jony neuemonic posted:bapsic
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basic is good as far as you can look it at for the first time ever and just guess how it works without ever formally learning anything remembering being a child trying to write a casino game and not knowing what to do after i used up all the variables A through Z because none of the type in programs in my basic for kids book ever used longer names
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Dec 17, 2023 21:00
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Lime posted:
lol
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Bloody posted:bapsic
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I think I must have had some kind of reference that mentioned functions like sin() and ln() etc (I was like 10 and we hadn’t done trig at school I had no idea what they were) and I would make for loops that plugged numbers in and looked at the outputs and thru a series of iterations I started multiplying the output by a constant and plotting the points and after getting some results I kept trying all sorts of different combinations and eventually did something like for loop x from 1 to whatever plot sin(x)*100,cos(x)*100 and it drew a fuckin circle on the screen !! when maxwell realised that light was an em wave, that was like this. like I had discovered how a circle was made I am still proud about stumbling onto that lol
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jony neuemonic posted:bapsic came here to make this post. glad someone else already did. my work here is done
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is there a microsoft BASIC style virtual machine out there one could use to teach BASIC without resorting to emulators?
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Sagebrush posted:bapsic
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Dec 17, 2023 22:50
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just use racket to teach programming
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Silver Alicorn posted:is there a microsoft BASIC style virtual machine out there one could use to teach BASIC without resorting to emulators? LowRes NX and also qb64 (despite double forks due to open source dev infighting) The Killing Jelq fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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jony neuemonic posted:bapsic
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eschaton posted:just use racket to teach programming haskells right there
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Dec 18, 2023 02:38
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teach'
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fart simpson posted:haskells right there and it better stand out of the way
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Dec 18, 2023 09:51
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making text adventure games in ti-basic on my graphing calculator in middle & high school
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:making text adventure games in ti-basic on my graphing calculator in middle & high school yup
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echinopsis posted:atari owners had STOS.. lmao at those sad sack mfs STOS was a pretty crap BASIC even by the standards of the time (functions what are those) but it taught me to code and then I moved on to Modula-2 because compilers for that cost half what they did for C for the ST and I ended up the withered husk of a software engineer you see today, so, who's to say it was all bad.
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feedmegin posted:STOS was a pretty crap BASIC even by the standards of the time (functions what are those) but it taught me to code and then I moved on to Modula-2 because compilers for that cost half what they did for C for the ST and I ended up the withered husk of a software engineer you see today, so, who's to say it was all bad. the gateway drug I see
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kids who asked for transformers and got go-bots are the same kids who asked for Amigas and got Atari STs
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