retro programming thoughts
i feel like BASIC might be the peak of accessible programming in more ways than one, and that's sad
i think we lost a lot in the transition to structured programming
retro programming thoughts
@jookia BBC BASIC (widely taught in UK schools in the 1980s) and QBASIC both allow structured programming.. I suspect the other issues are so many extra libraries/frameworks/dependencies all with their own steep learning curves, and things constantly changing (OTOH I recently used a BBC emulator to demonstrate how the SAA5050 Teletext graphics worked BITD and could still remember how to do some stuff 35 years later)
retro programming thoughts
@vfrmedia allowing is different enforcing
retro programming thoughts
@jookia at least at my high school the teacher enforced structured programming techniques (or at least you got better marks for using those)
retro programming thoughts
@vfrmedia yikes
retro programming thoughts
@jookia I think the whole reason BBC BASIC was rolled out across England was that it corrected some of the flaws of conventional BASIC (to be fair the standard of IT education in many British high schools was very good and until recently superior to today, although coding is now being taught in high schools once more)
retro programming thoughts
@josipretrobits @jookia
BBC, C64, Apple and Atari all had roughly the same amount of available ROM space; however the BBC computer project had the clout of a national govt, state broadcaster and academics behind it (and whoever won the tender would get guaranteed sales to hundreds of schools) whereas the American home computers were left more to the commercial market (especially professional game devs)