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Why Teach Programming With BASIC?

Posted by timothy on from the because-of-the-great-name dept.

chromatic writes "To answer the perennial question 'How can we teach kids how to program?', we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."

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  1. Re:BASIC by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 print "hello"
    20 goto 10

    This is why we can't have nice things.

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    John
  2. BASIC Programmers Never Die... by Blackwulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...They GOSUB and don't RETURN.

  3. Web-based programming environment... by windcask · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Here, son, let's look at this Wordpress site that hasn't been updated in 18 months. Now, this is called 'SQL Injection' and 'Cross-site Scripting.'"

    Nothing better than learning by example...

  4. Re:Slashvertizement by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I came for infotainment but was disappointed to find an edutizement

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  5. Re:Can't get there from here by c0lo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I still find multi-threading and C/C++ easier than Basic.
    ...
    Computer's just manipulate math, one problem at a time. Crazy easy.

    I wonder what did you understand from multi-threading?

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