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They were teaching QBasic right up to 2013 at least!
by cuteboy19 4y ago
They were teaching QBasic right up to 2013 at least!
- zozbot234 4y agoAnd many schools in India were notorious for teaching either Qbasic or Turbo Pascal/Turbo C++ in the MS-DOS environment very recently or even to this day. Sometimes resorting to DosBox to make them usable on modern hardware. (Is that better or worse than having students use an Electron- and JavaScript-based free IDE that will run like a dog even on the fastest hardware around? Dunno, really.)
- usrusr 4y agoLearning can come from unexpected directions. With my base of GWBasic, QBasic and Turbo Pascal I tried and failed learning C more than once. (Admittedly, most attempts where trying to learn C and win32 API at the same time, that might have been a bit much at once - particularly using the exotic GCC ports of the day). Then I spent a year or two diving into POV-ray SDL, with its heavily C-preprocessor inspired syntax. After that, C came surprisingly easy.
- jenscow 4y agoMy learning path was very similar.
- bluedino 4y agoStackOverflow still gets conio.h not found questions.
- tresqotheq 4y ago> Is that better or worse 1000x better, and I am damn serious.
- xbar 4y agoI could unpack each of those orders of magnitude and explain why you're right, but I skipped straight to the upvote.