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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #45 on: March 10, 2006, 03:18:48 am »
Quote from: iago on March 09, 2006, 10:59:00 pm
And yeah, I have memories of programming BASIC on a Commador 64 (and now I can't even spell it).  Good times, those were...
Hehehehe, the Commodore 64.... we had a cartridge in my fourth grade class for it that played a game with a rat collecting cheese and you had to avoid the mouse!

Nothing beat out doing BASIC on the greenscreen of the Apple IIe though.  I can't imagine what they thought 3rd graders would get out of that.
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #46 on: March 10, 2006, 07:47:33 am »
How about we go with it being DIM, which can mean whatever you want it to mean? =)
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #47 on: March 10, 2006, 09:23:01 am »
Quote from: Joe on March 10, 2006, 07:47:33 am
How about we go with it being DIM, which can mean whatever you want it to mean? =)
Because that would be wrong. 

Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on March 10, 2006, 03:18:48 am
Hehehehe, the Commodore 64.... we had a cartridge in my fourth grade class for it that played a game with a rat collecting cheese and you had to avoid the mouse!

Nothing beat out doing BASIC on the greenscreen of the Apple IIe though.  I can't imagine what they thought 3rd graders would get out of that.
Haha yeah, I remember doing that language with a turtle back on the Apple thing.  Logo or something?  Doing BASIC on a Commodore was just as fun.  No harddrive, no disk drive, and no software.  All it had was a BASIC interpreter.
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #48 on: March 10, 2006, 02:38:14 pm »
Quote from: iago on March 10, 2006, 09:23:01 am
Haha yeah, I remember doing that language with a turtle back on the Apple thing.  Logo or something?  Doing BASIC on a Commodore was just as fun.  No harddrive, no disk drive, and no software.  All it had was a BASIC interpreter.
Hahahaha, and getting pissed because there wasn't any kind of "Save" feature!
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #49 on: March 10, 2006, 04:54:10 pm »
You could save to a tape drive, IIRC? I know there was the option for an external 512KB floppy drive, as well.
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #50 on: March 10, 2006, 05:28:29 pm »
Quote from: Joe on March 10, 2006, 04:54:10 pm
You could save to a tape drive, IIRC? I know there was the option for an external 512KB floppy drive, as well.

I had neither. 
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #51 on: March 13, 2006, 07:20:31 pm »
Quote from: Joe on March 10, 2006, 04:54:10 pm
You could save to a tape drive, IIRC? I know there was the option for an external 512KB floppy drive, as well.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a 512kb floppy drive ever.  Reference: here.

We didn't have either thing though.
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Re: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?
« Reply #52 on: March 13, 2006, 08:46:23 pm »
Er, I was thinking 5.25" or something like that. I don't know what mean. The one that was literally a "floppy" disk.
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