Re: GSoft BASIC Ramble

[Mike Westerfield <MikeW50@aol.com>]

On May 16, 7:56 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the best reason is to bring back the reason why we do
> programming in the first place. The kids all love to program when you
> can simply do a
>
> HGR2
> HCOLOR = 1
> HPLOT 0, 0 to 279, 191
>
> to plot a line. Now if we can simply do this on a modern computer.

For kids, I'd recommend looking into Star Logo. Actually, I'd
recommend it for anyone. I had quite a lot of fun with it. There are
some cool companion books, one of which shows how to write some fairly
cool emergent systems using a language accessible to a middle school
kid. I had lots of fun with the slime mold program, although I admit I
quickly moved it to Java to get speed and flexibility.

Mike