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Or someone who is sick of repetitive tasks?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That joke should be made a sick bird...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Only if you all send me an ill octopus. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is an illiquid investment solid?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It can be a pour choice.
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I was just introduced to this idea: "Blue Monday" is the most depressing day of the year.
There is an equation which calculates when it is:
TQ * (W + (D - d))
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M * Na
Where:
W - weather
D - debt level
d - monthly salary
T - time since Christmas
Q - time since failing our new year's resolutions
M - low motivational level
Na - the feeling of a need to take action
Not sure I can work out the result myself, but hey! That's science* for you. 
Apparently it's next Monday.
* Or at least, pseudoscience.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just going through Limit of a function - Wikipedia[^] , it will take a while, some years...
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I can't believe that APress just published (Dec. 2018) this book.
Amazon.com: Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing: Learn BASIC with a Commodore Emulator eBook: Gerald Friedland: Kindle Store[^]
Author says: True story. I was looking for a system that would help 7-year olds teach themselves programming. Hey it's 2018, right? After looking through what's available, the two major issues that I have with the current tools are: 1) Many of them require the Internet (too dangerous for self learning) 2) most, if not all, of them are drag and drop. I wanted a non-distracting environment where the kids practice reading and writing while learning to program. The sensation of causing an action simply by typing a word is priceless.
I don't know. Maybe just use JavaScript in a browser to teach. It's much more relevant and has far fewer barriers to entry.
I mean I would've really liked this book back in 1990 or before, but not sure this one will have a market.
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I don't know. I collect old computer equipment and it's becoming a big thing now to write old style computer games running on new equipment. The 8-bit guy on Youtube has a lot of cool videos showing his RPG running on old and new equipment.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: I don't know. I collect old computer equipment and it's becoming a big thing now
Yeah, I see what you mean. I follow a guy on Twitter who does a lot of retro.
It's just that I would expect it to be more of an advanced book instead of a beginner's BASIC learning book.
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That's true, but there are a lot of "old school" gamers who never learned how to program. It's also a cool way of getting your kids grand kids into it. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: It's also a cool way of getting your kids grand kids into it.
Kind of a "spread the infection" type of thing, I guess. 
It's a good idea because we don't have enough platforms (web (5 browsers), iOS, Android, Windows (7,8,10), plethora of Linux distros) as it is.
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Small Basic would have done the job
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But why inflict line numbers when you don't have to?
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That's structure!
Yes, I'm kidding. Good point.
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This thing that we do, is not for everyone. Society is "trying" to make it accessible to everyone, which is great in theory, but in practice, only a very small amount will continue the journey, and it will NOT be from learning how to program using a Commodore Turd Emulator.
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Slacker007 wrote: This thing that we do, is not for everyone. Society is "trying" to make it accessible to everyone,
Oh, Remy..."Anyone can cook!" 
https://i.stack.imgur.com/r43lb.png[^] 
I agree with you.
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Pshaw. I can do ancient BASIC on my MicroVAX -- in the interactive environment. (Yes, it is precisely why I bought a VAX.)
Unfortunately I have found that Turbo BASIC does not run on Win 10 x64. 
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raddevus wrote: Maybe just use JavaScript in a browser to teach. It's much more relevant and has far fewer barriers to entry.
By "non-distracting environment", I'm assuming the author meant to avoid exactly the sort of thing you're proposing with JavaScript: Do you try teaching what'll work on all browsers, or only those from a certain generation forward? Do you bring in (or even mention) the plethora of frameworks? How are you going to teach basic file I/O when you can't escape the browser sandbox? Or are you going to do server-side JavaScript such as Node.JS where you can do these operations? How do you gently introduce (to newcomers) the distinction between server-side and client-side code, and debugging on each? Are you going to get into packages? So many questions to answer, and justify.
Perhaps the author's point is that because these older environments are much more limited in what they can do, you're forced to focus on the "common fundamentals" without all the other "distractions" (as he puts it)...
All of that said--and while I've learned on the C64 myself and might see his point--I have to think a Raspberry Pi might still be a better starting point, if only (as you suggested) in terms of relevance.
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Yeah, those are good points. Every web browser is almost like it's own OS.
But you could even set out the rule that the reader could use FireFox, Chrome or Edge and then say, "ok, hit F12" (dev tools)
type: 2+2<enter>
Works in all 3 of those browsers.
After that, there's a lot you could teach directly from the console.
I think a lot of books that try to teach JavaScript do overwhelm with all the node.js, extra libraries (even jQuery) stuff.
If you're learning JavaScript you should learn the good old fashioned way.
document.getElementByID(), etc. 
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The problem with that approach is, can you really make a "complete program" you can package and share with someone and use elsewhere ? You could with the author's original approach. How would that work with a browser? That would be clumsy at best.
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