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> I wonder what today's generation growing up on? Take here to ask the same question. What hooked me on BASIC was the graphic capabilities. It was relatively
by wiremine 13y ago
> I wonder what today's generation growing up on?
Take here to ask the same question.
What hooked me on BASIC was the graphic capabilities. It was relatively easy to create dumb little graphic programs: circles that changed colors and grew, etc.
- anigbrowl 13y agoUnless you ended up using a Commodore 64 or one of its ancestors which was completely sprite-oriented and thus not much good for canvas-type programming. I've often thought my life might have been different if I had asked my parents to get me a Sinclair spectrum instead of relying on the fact that our school had Commodore computers to push them towards a Vic-20.
- pvg 13y agoSprites? Luxury! We went to bed hungry dreaming of a linear framebuffer while seven angry pixels fought viciously over a single colour bit, keeping us awake. On an Apple ][, that is.
- fit2rule 13y ago>> I wonder what today's generation growing up on? My kids are growing up on the same old 8-bit machines that I grew up on. After all: those old 8-bit machines still work just fine for the task of learning to write code. Any reason not to still use old 8-bit machines to learn programming? I can't think of a single one.
- DanBC 13y agoThere was even a BASIC tailored for the Herculese graphics card (720x348 1 bit per pixel) which I used for simple fractals and other graphics noodling.