Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
General Development Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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just what IS wrong with basic for a hobby
by Bruce Jones on Wed 28th Jul 2004 21:17 UTC

last year i started my first year at 6th form and as coursework for computer science we had to learn QBasic (my school cant afford anything better...) and write a sort of database program. im still not very good at it and it may be old but its still fun ;) .