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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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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:27 PM

    Awfully confused

    I have to admit to being awfully confused by this article. In about 30 seconds of web searching I found several open source implementations of very traditional BASIC. Here, for example, is the home page for Chipmunk Basic, which seems to be just what the author is looking for:

    http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/

    and as the bottom of this page shows, there are literally dozens of other basic and basic-like languages available for free for nearly so.

    So what am I missing?

    —megolden Read megolden's other letters

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