For the DOS version, you couldn't even compile independent executables, so it was clearly meant to be for educational purposes only. However it was a fun hands-on experience at programming. Students could see results quickly. Type FD 10 and you get to see something drawn on the screen, and REPEAT 5 [ FD 20 RT 144] for something more interesting.
It also makes you think about how to write programs. You can also learn more about whatever it is that you are coding, whether it be a board game, fractal explorer, or a 3D model. In these aspects it's similar to a TI-82.
Any company or organization -- regardless of political affiliation -- could do what MoveOn did and thereby prevent advertisers from running ads that include their trademarks in ad texts. And that's very important. The ad in question could have said that MoveOn.org was great, or even just so-so, and our policy would have resulted in the same outcome; Google would have asked the advertiser to drop the trademarked phrase.
While this amount of restriction is probably not the bare minimum required by law, it gives fair chance, and fortunately leaves no room for political bias to be injected by Google.
1. If there's a bug in the code, the problem will manifest itself on screen as opposed to as a car collision and a huge gasoline-fuelled explosion hellfire over the blood splattered bodies of innocent babies that the automated parallel parking system accidentally runs over. 2. You can practice your parallel parking.
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For the DOS version, you couldn't even compile independent executables, so it was clearly meant to be for educational purposes only. However it was a fun hands-on experience at programming. Students could see results quickly. Type FD 10 and you get to see something drawn on the screen, and REPEAT 5 [ FD 20 RT 144] for something more interesting. It also makes you think about how to write programs. You can also learn more about whatever it is that you are coding, whether it be a board game, fractal explorer, or a 3D model. In these aspects it's similar to a TI-82.
Can't see how a mechanical tracker solution could be cheaper to install or to upkeep.
1. If there's a bug in the code, the problem will manifest itself on screen as opposed to as a car collision and a huge gasoline-fuelled explosion hellfire over the blood splattered bodies of innocent babies that the automated parallel parking system accidentally runs over.
2. You can practice your parallel parking.