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Re:Microsoft Small Basic by HeckFeck on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:44PM (#35941220)
I once explained arrays and frontbuffers/backbuffers to a 9 year old. I can't say that he did anything useful with the knowledge, though he wasn't put to sleep by it and went away knowing a little more on how graphics are done.
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Re:Microsoft Small Basic by hetman on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:36AM (#35963309)
There's quite a bit of a gap between an understanding sufficient to follow someone else's explanation and an understanding sufficient to build something (including learning a rigid syntax understandable to a machine in order to express the concepts).
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