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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by mcphage on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:22PM (#16448163)
> If someone were to design a programming language with a learning curve as gentle as Qbasic, and wrap a simple IDE and graphics library around it, all while modernising some of its more dubious qualities...you'd have a real shot at recapturing the magic for a new generation of young programmers.

They did, years ago. It’s called “Processing”, and it’s very popular. It’s also used by a lot of artists to let them make active or interactive art pieces without needing to be an experienced programmer.

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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by vram22 on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:47PM (#16448818)
Cool! I haven't tried out Processing, but I have tried out the JavaScript port of it (processing.js), initially created by John Resig, who also created JQuery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Resig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing.js

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery

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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:33AM (#16457700)
i took a look at the examples here [1] and the syntax looks similar to Java. I wonder if it is really that easy to teach programming with this language?

[1] https://processing.org/examples/

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Re:QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64 by mcphage on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:51AM (#16459186)
> the syntax looks similar to Java

Syntactical it is similar to java, although only the simplest Java. No generics, no inner classes, etc. And let’s face it, even at its most complicated, Java isn’t syntactically complicated.

> I wonder if it is really that easy to teach programming with this language?

Well, it’s been in use for a number of years, and is popular among non-traditional programmers, so the answer seems to be yes.

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