qb64 is great for an intro to programming. I am teaching a young child to program. One of the things I noticed, is that they had difficulty with “if” and “else”

qb64 is great for an intro to programming. I am teaching a young child to program. One of the things I noticed, is that they had difficulty with “if” and “else” blocks. The concept of a block of code that gets executed together versus another block of code just wasn’t intuitive. I changed to basic “if ... goto” and they immediately grasped the code. It was just a labeled linear set of instructions that you just followed starting from the top and going down unless you encountered a “goto”. Once they get more facile with programming BASIC in this style, I will introduce them to more structured programming. BASIC is a great intro language for non-programmers cause it is so linear and there are few extraneous noise (for example the parentheses in Python 3)