[Year 12 SofDev] Back to BASIC(s)

[Laurie Savage]

Nice approach Mark; have you thought about Python? I've been playing around 
with it with a good year 9 class and they seem to get it. My reasoning is 
that simple Pyhton scripts read very much like structured English so as long as 
the kid can grasp the logic the syntax more or less follows and OO and GUI 
programming can follow in the same language.

Laurie Savage
Pascoe Vale Girls College

Just recently, on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:07:23PM +1000  in fact, Mark KELLY mentioned:
> 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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