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Anyone recommend a good, ideally free QBASIC-like for modern Windows? Want native Windows, no DOSBox or similar. My little brother (60+yr old) wants to get ba
by zabzonk 2y ago
Anyone recommend a good, ideally free QBASIC-like for modern Windows? Want native Windows, no DOSBox or similar.
My little brother (60+yr old) wants to get back into programming after many years of business analysis, project management, yada yada, but he was originally a programmer. I suggested Python, but I think he might be happier with BASIC. He's retired now, so doesn't need/want to do it for a job.
- mysterydip 2y agoFreebasic or QB64 would be good places to look. There's also VB equivalents like gambas or xojo.
- MomsAVoxell 2y agoI have found that antirez’ LOAD81 can be a rejuvenating and invigorating environment to give to kids and the elderly, alike, to inspire them to rekindle their love of programming: https://github.com/antirez/LOAD81 https://github.com/antirez/LOAD81 It has all the bells and whistles of a BASIC environment - easy, simple editing, fast switching between code and runtime, and just enough of an onboard SDK to do hires graphics and so on .. but with the Lua language, instead of BASIC. Maybe your little brother will get a kick out of this .. keep an eye for some of the forks of it too, which provide other functionality such as joystick and sound support .. sooner or later, someone will bolt on networking and maybe even REDIS support, and we’ll have a whole new era of simple Lua-based client programming on our doorstep.