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I don't buy it - your kid may just not be into programming as much as you were. I was born in '83 and in the 90s (when I got into computers) QBasic was already
by ido 8y ago
I don't buy it - your kid may just not be into programming as much as you were. I was born in '83 and in the 90s (when I got into computers) QBasic was already well buried in some obscure directory inside DOS (or later the windows 95 installation CD) & with all the piracy there was no shortage of games around.
I still got into programming as a kid & have been doing it for a living since I was 18. And I had plenty of friends (most!) who just wanted to play the games, as well as those that got into programming to make their own.
- dorkwood 8y agoDid someone give you a book, or something? I’m curious about people who learned to program as children. I was an intensely curious kid too, and would quite happily dig around the Windows 3.1 OS hoping to uncover something cool. All I really got out of it was a knowledge of the computer’s file system, though. In my early teens I had access to the internet, and managed to find a C++ tutorial online. I learned to print text to the command line, but not much more than that. It took until my late 20s that I finally had the resources and mental stamina to start learning it for real.
- ido 8y agoMS languages had great "online" (i.e. integrated in the IDE) help, you could learn programming from the QBasic/QuickBasic integrated help alone. Visual Basic also had great integrated help. We also had Logo classes at primary school but I never "got" that you can actually program with logo, it seemed like a silly drawing program to me at the time.