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Twenty years ago I acquired an Apple IIe, soon got into BASIC and was forthwith into writing programs for my German and history classes.
Ten years ago I acquired my wonderful MAC (since replaced a couple of times; they just don't make them like the ol' IIe any more). And in the last ten years I've not written a single line of code, and I've missed the experience (which can really be intense!)
I still find myself considering certain problems in terms of writing BASIC.
Neither Apple nor any of the other big names seem to be interested in helping introduce players to the heart of the big "game". This syndrome is similar to the books and manuals written by computer geeks, for computer geeks. (My geekdom lies mostly in other fields: political, philosophical.) Even the recent so-called BASIC aps (See, I can do a little computerese.) are couched in such abstruse language as to render them fairly inaccessible to most.
Now, I'm going to read this article. The topic really set me off! Maybe help is available?
