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Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Why Johnny can't code

BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.
By David Brin

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  • Saturday, September 16, 2006 09:04 AM

    What about emulators

    If you check the following link you'll find a plethora of Apple II emulators for Mac OSX.

    http://dmoz.org/Computers/Emulators/Apple/Apple_II/

    Similar should be available on the Windows platform. Wouldn't these allow you to run BASIC software without buying old hardware?

    I had the great fortune of first self-learning programming (in the early 80s) by playing around with simple programs. In my case the tools was HyperCard, whose HyperText language is very similar to BASIC. In fact HyperCard still runs on my Mac (OSX 10.3.9) under the Mac Classic emulator, even though the software is probably 12 years old now.

    Thanks for the interesting article.

    Tom

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