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Re: IBM VisualAge for BASIC?

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Hi Dave!

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:20:46 UTC, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
> > Folks!
> >
> > My young son is showing some interest in computer programming...what I want to
> > walk him through is the real basics...thus the focus on BASIC!
> >
> > There used to be VisualAge for BASIC product on our platform some time
> > back...and judging by various posts it wasn't really much of a success.
> > However...I am looking for something that basically has a decent GUI and very
> > straight forward 'hello world' type program development capabilities.
> >
> > I have VA for C/C++ installed here, Watcom, etc, etc...but do not want him
> > starting with something like C or Java...we want very simple...
> >
> > Any ideas, recommendations?
> >
> > Remember, 9yo is your audience...
> 
> There is always qbasic, very primitive IDE but it comes with OS/2.
> If you want him to learn something more structured there are a few 
> implementations of Pascal on OS/2 as well.


Actually...that was indeed one of the first things I tried...seeing BASIC.COM, 
BASICA.COM & QBASIC.EXE caused memories of programming early Commodore64 rush 
through my head...LOL...problem though, on my OS2 machine, attempting to open up
a DOS window actually fails. I believe there is some kind of a problem with 
either the SNAP drivers and my ATI 850XT video card, or some other part of the 
system.

I did my share of Pascal back in the high-school days (North America circa 
'87-'89) so indeed, that may be worth a try.

Thanks!

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IBM VisualAge for BASIC? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2012-02-29 03:06 +0000
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    Re: IBM VisualAge for BASIC? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2012-02-29 15:05 +0000
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