RoxyMoron

We learned BASIC back in 7th grade, I'm now 23 and at the time it seemed pointless but I realized it was good knowledge that makes me look smart so people might be impressed and I could possibly get a good job...and I can laugh at the Futurama joke when Calculon says, "Don't you have a GOTO 10 line?"
Anyway, does anyone still use BASIC? And what sort of games do you play? I found a website that had pages upon pages of programming, I lost the link but could find it again if anyone is interested...

FourBear

Wow, you're lucky! I'm right around your age and never learned BASIC. Was it difficult to learn?

Joel007

I learned QBASIC, was that the same thing? Ah I have fond memories of simply designed multiple choice questions, random number generated guessing games, door choice based RPGs, cannon duels, and graphically challenged battleship warfare

It's a "isn't that cool" skill rather than an essential. It can impress employers but C++ is a bit more useful these days!

mamab

I had to learn a little bit of Basic in college. That's the only way we could get anything done on the computer system there. (Yes, it was before internet.)

RoxyMoron

I always wondered what C++ was...not the same as CSS code is it? I learned CSS by my many years of using the net, sort of selftaught I suppose. Knowing HTML helped...
BASIC seemed very complicated for me at first because I didn't get it, but as I made cool little programs it all made sense for me.
It is a very neat little thing, just very tedious and requires a super old machine! We're talking big floppy disk kinds!

Joel007

C++ is the upgrade from Visual Basic, I think they've probably written a new language by now. I haven't really kept up with it.

Lee

I remember taking a high school class and learned a semester's worth of Basic. I had a spiral notebook, which was filled with a lengthy text adventure game that I never finished. Prior to the class, I taught myself a little bit of it on the Atari 400 since it came with a disk that was exclusively for creating simple programs. The only problem was that I didn't have a nifty cassette Atari player that would save my progress so anything I had designed would be wiped clean when the system was turned off.

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RoxyMoron

I've got some books on BASIC but I can't remember which computer you are able to use it on o.0
Do any of you remember which operating system and/or best computer to tinker around with?

RoxyMoron

Ah, gotcha. I don't think I've ever been exposed to C++ then...and how true, there is always something new. I do believe there is another type of code other than HTML and CSS now but I can't remember a thing about it...

mamab

My husband would like to learn to do some graphics, but I don't know if he's got enough memory to do it on his computer.

parise

I think it was an opening to having you find some type of interest in gaming thats all. But everything that you learn pryor to that i'm sure that it applies to what you are doing now

Joel007

I'm not sure about BASIC, but QBASIC was DOS based, all you need is a DOS window (cmd.exe)

RoxyMoron

Yeah, you'd have to get a good gaming computer full of memory, I had a friend who had to build his own!
If you're talking BASIC though, it wouldn't matter because the computer you program it on can only use so much memory at a time haha...it's ancient! Like on Vh1 I love the 80s, the computers with the giant floppy disks that only had enough memory to save just one line at a time hahahaha