30 years later, QBasic is still the best

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by icebraining on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:51AM (#11637150)

As someone who actually learned programming with JavaScript, back in IE 5 days, I agree. Writing dumb little "guess the number" games or copy-pasting snippets from DynamicDrive.com to study and adapt made it very easy to get started, and that you can upload it to a free host and share the link gives you an extra incentive.

I've since learned a few more languages, and I don't particularly enjoy writing complex JS programs, but I'm very glad it was there when I got started.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by Annatar on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:51PM (#11639913)

You missed out - there is nothing quite like getting your first picture on the screen with the Copper, or doing your first scroller with the Blitter, or hearing your first Future Composer tune play correctly inside of a working level 3 interrupt request...

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by icebraining on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:55PM (#11640319)

Yeah, we couldn't afford a computer back then. I learned by spending my Saturdays on the public computers at the library, hence why having access to an interpreter that didn't need to be installed was awesome.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by Annatar on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:18PM (#11640447)

I coded a good bit of my first Amiga intro on my neighbour's Amiga 500, because I could not afford my own...

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by Voltage on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:16PM (#11640741)

I've had life long friendships start based on the fact that they had a C64 Disk Drive and/or printer.

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