The good news for those people, and for anyone else who wants to learn BASIC from scratch or revisit an old friend, is that TinyBASIC is now available for the Raspberry Pi. Andrew Lack has ported this very lightweight editor, interpreter and graphics package to the Pi, and we think it’...
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Computer Science For Kids offers several more advanced Small Basic Programming Tutorials for kids. Our Small Basic Tutorials pick up and build on the Free Microsoft Small Basic Powerpoint Curriculum shown above. Our tutorials allow a student to go a lot more in depth into the Small Basic language...
Apex Minecraft hosting recently held a scholarship competition. The personwho sent in the best essay would win a $2,000 scholarship.The winning essay starts, “Five years ago, at age 13, I built an entire computer from scratch. Assembled from basic components: wires, torches, repeaters, pisto...
It's written to about a 13-year old audience, but kids can start reading it at a younger age, and adults will find it as a great way to ease into text-based computer programming! It's designed so that anybody can read it on their own, but it's packed full of useful problems and...
In other words, Microsoft Excel, along with VBA, makes for an excellent environment for simple development projects. And writing a simple computer game makes for an excellent introduction to that environment. To show you what we mean, we've created a simple word game, which we've dubbed Word...
It’s written to about a 12-year old audience, but kids can start reading it at a younger age (10 is fine; I've gone through it with 8 year olds), and adults will find it as one of the best ways to ease int...
BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach anybody (especially middle and high-school students) the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a...
I did have a programming background from college but had to mostly learn from scratch to do my job as a professional product photographer. I rely on a bunch of Bridge, Photoshop, and Excel scripts to do my job. And even though I'm a die-hard Mac guy I had to le...
As Phrogramborned to be a teaching language, graphic interfaces must be drawn by scratch. The same thing happens for mouse management: the programmer must tell the mouse where is the button. Do you remember ancient times when mouse funtions had to be coded into QuickBasic like this: (X1,...