[Year 12 SofDev] Back to BASIC(s)

[Mark KELLY]

Hi All.

While I haven't had an SD class for a while (low enrolments and all), I will
be taking a year 10 IT elective in the coming semester which is sort of a SD
precursor.

Having been annoyed in the past by programming introductions that stressed
the GUI at the expense of 'real' programming (e.g. the spent most of their
time manipulating object properties and never discovered variables, arrays,
loops and logic) I have decided to go back to basics... literally.

To force the kids to focus on fundamentals I wanted to start with good ol'
QuickBASIC that has no GUI at all.  Alas, it proved impossible to get it to
run under Win7.  That's when I found QB64 at http://www.qb64.net.

This is a nice rendition of reverse engineering QB that will work happily in
a Win7 64 bit environment.  It will be good to get the kiddies away from
frills and back to the meat-and-vegies of programming.  Only then will I get
them into GUI and OOP.

Enjoy the hols

Mark

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