Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language?

[MyndFyre]

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.

[Joe]

How about we go with it being DIM, which can mean whatever you want it to mean? =)

[iago]

How about we go with it being DIM, which can mean whatever you want it to mean? =)

Because that would be wrong. 

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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.

[MyndFyre]

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!

[Joe]

You could save to a tape drive, IIRC? I know there was the option for an external 512KB floppy drive, as well.

[iago]

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. 

[MyndFyre]

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.

[Joe]

Er, I was thinking 5.25" or something like that. I don't know what mean. The one that was literally a "floppy" disk.