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I really liked going through Realm of Racket with my 11 year old daughter. It pretty much is the same format. It made me miss the days of typing code from a boo
by baldfat 9y ago
I really liked going through Realm of Racket with my 11 year old daughter. It pretty much is the same format. It made me miss the days of typing code from a book and hit run. (Well run never really worked then it was hours of debugging but that taught me so much)
- cujic9 9y agoHa yes! Bonus points when the book is for IBM Basic, and you're using a Commodore 64. Argggggg!
- baldfat 9y agoI loved it when they didn't say what basic it was for. My dad ended up meeting a author of a few of the programs and he said, "Oh I never got that basic program to ever run." My dad was like my 9 year old fix it and walked away. He was proud and mad. It took me weeks to get things fixed.
- peatmoss 9y agoChildhood TRS-80 user here, can commiserate.
- baldfat 9y agoI was a sol-20 kid
- flavio81 9y agoLOL. I had an Atari 130XE so examples for IBM Basic, Apple ][ and Commodore didn't work either! Even worse if the examples were for the Spectrum, which had an even more peculiar dialect!
- ansible 9y agoOh yes. I had a TRS-80 Color Computer, and the BASIC dialect (though written by MS) was slightly different in some details, so I was usually translating things at least a little. Things like color and graphics were completely different from system to system.
- perl4ever 9y agoRemember COMPUTE!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute%21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute%21