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by lelanthran3 hours ago |
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upvoteby fredrickleo3 hours ago|
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Heh, I've been working on an interpreter to run them https://github.com/fredrick-pennachi/OldBasic It's not quite finished yet but it can run the programs I've typed out here https://github.com/fredrick-pennachi/BASIC-programs
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upvoteby chb3 hours ago|
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What “modern platform” would you suggest?
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upvoteby lelanthran2 hours ago|
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> What “modern platform” would you suggest?

I can't really think of a suitable one TBH; Python's completely out of the running, Java and C# have a lot of unnecessary (for this goal) boilerplate, Pascal is not a bad choice.

Maybe Javascript? The books can then instruct "type this into an HTML file".

In my mind, a more modern platform would be a simulated one that has its own machine language (byte-code compiled, perhaps) so that these books, which take you all the way into machine language, would make sense.

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upvoteby contingencies1 hours ago|
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Lua/Love2D?
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upvoteby aperrien2 hours ago|
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Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.
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upvoteby lelanthran2 hours ago|
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> Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.

Not for the book type format - the kids will be typing the code in, not copying + pasting them.

Significant whitespace is a killer in printed form; so Python is not even in the running.

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upvoteby egypturnash23 minutes ago|
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[picture of Tips Kitty] Don't forget! Every time you see " ⦙ " in the listing, press the [Tab] key on your keyboard. See page 23 to learn why this is important.

And page 23 teaches you about significant whitespace, and how to configure several text editors that a kid's likely to have available to actually show it like that. Heck, I use Panic's Nova for my text editing and it does that out of the box with no configuration needed.

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