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▶BASIC User 01/19/18 (Fri) 20:07:48 No.49110 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I've been interested in BASIC for a long time and I was wanting to learn it. If anyone here knows it, or knows anything about it, is it viable for anything these days? Also, post comfy /cyber/ terminals.

▶User 01/20/18 (Sat) 02:47:46 No.49112>>49211

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BASIC was intended to be baby's first programming language, so it is very simplistic, but it teaches you some bad misconceptions about programming, so you have to actively re-learn when you're switching to something better.

Also, there were tons of implementations, each one slightly different from each other, so eveb your BASIC-related knowledge was useless outside of one platform.

Install an antique machine emulator (ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Apple II), find scans of a book teaching BASIC that went along with it online and type out the examples, but don't spend more than evening on it.

▶User 01/20/18 (Sat) 04:02:58 No.49113>>49127

Unless you are wanting to learn BASIC as a hobby, I would not recommend it, since there is not much of a market for it.

A new market for programing is a language called "Swift". You should rather look for a platform you want to work with, then learn the languages related

▶User 01/20/18 (Sat) 15:51:59 No.49114

BASIC is a deal language. Also, frankly, if you wanted to learn Basic, you'd have done it by now. Lots of people learned it in 3rd or 4th grade back in the day, where they'd have little programs in math books to show how to write a program to do the math work.

Python is probably the best 'beginner' language out there right now, since it's pretty simple and you can do a lot of stuff with it.

▶User 01/20/18 (Sat) 17:45:34 No.49116

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▶User 01/21/18 (Sun) 03:02:10 No.49127

>>49113

>A new market for programming is a language called "Swift"

I've heard of Swift, but I've never looked into it. I know some Python, some Ruby, and HTML + CSS. I also know some JS.

Would it be better for me to learn Swift instead of continuing on with learning Python or JS? What kind of use cases does it see in meatspace?

▶User 01/22/18 (Mon) 19:36:16 No.49158

It really depends on what you want to do. If you just want to play around with it and experience Basic as it was back in the day, get a C64 or a ZX-Spectrum emulator and have at it. The advice to look for old Basic magazines for those machines is great. Or look at the old MS QBasic.

Even today there are many Basic dialects, but most of those have litttle resemblance to the Basic of old. You have VB.net (basically C# with Basic syntax), which still has some relevance in business today, then there is Freebasic and QB64, which aim to be compatible with QBasic, but also add new features. Then there are also some Basic dialects aimed at gamedev, such as Blitzbasic, Blitz3d, Basic4GL and AppGameKit. Other, more general purpose implementations are PureBasic, Thinbasic and Powerbasic.

▶User 01/28/18 (Sun) 12:24:29 No.49211

>>49112

BASIC was intended to be baby's only programming language, you dip.

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