Comment by lelanthran
2 hours ago
Man, I just posted this in a recent thread :-)
Still think my comment applies: they need to be updated for a modern platform (not Python).
2 hours ago
Man, I just posted this in a recent thread :-)
Still think my comment applies: they need to be updated for a modern platform (not Python).
Heh, I've been working on an interpreter to run them https://github.com/fredrick-pennachi/OldBasic It's not quite finished yet but it can run the programs I've typed out here https://github.com/fredrick-pennachi/BASIC-programs
What “modern platform” would you suggest?
Lua/Love2D?
> What “modern platform” would you suggest?
I can't really think of a suitable one TBH; Python's completely out of the running, Java and C# have a lot of unnecessary (for this goal) boilerplate, Pascal is not a bad choice.
Maybe Javascript? The books can then instruct "type this into an HTML file".
In my mind, a more modern platform would be a simulated one that has its own machine language (byte-code compiled, perhaps) so that these books, which take you all the way into machine language, would make sense.
Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.
> Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.
Not for the book type format - the kids will be typing the code in, not copying + pasting them.
Significant whitespace is a killer in printed form; so Python is not even in the running.