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Re:Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021 by fuball63 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:25PM (#26295682)
Another helpful thing is how many programming languages have "assignment" and "comparison" operators.

I remember TI basic has "=" for comparison, and "<-" for assignment, like, 'A<-5'. That one, to me made, the most sense. "Put the value of 5 in something called A."

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Re:Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021 by Delfino on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:53PM (#26299546)
iirc in TI-BASIC, assignment goes the other way so you could have "B + 5 -> A" which also helps seeing that the expression would be evaluated before storing (the button to input -> on the calc is STO, short for store).
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