10 May
2010
10 May
'10
1:09 p.m.
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
I was addressing his comment that VB was only available on "modern"
machines. AFAIK, VB1 will work even with an XT. GWBASIC is also one of
those things found on abandonware sites. :)
> How can
BASIC not be taught? Every computer has it's own version of BASIC,
> whereas (as I understand it) Visual Basic is only available for modern
> computers.
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
Visual Basic 1.0 is for DOS and Microsoft PDS 7.1
and QuickBASIC 4.5 can
be found on various abandonware sites. Interesting note - QB45 is
available via the MSDN, but PDS71 isn't.
The curriculum committee is rather hostile to the idea of teaching stuff
"found on various abandonware sites". Besides, what's wrong with GWBASIC?
I used to be able to get K&R past them by calling
it "a classic work", and
by declaring it to be one of two texts for the class (the other being some
modern POS that we never bothered to open)
Turbo C is a good choice for students, but won't teach much about the tool
chain. (make, link, lib, etc)
Plus". Both are pretty good for beginners, but
neither prepares the
student for what will happen when scanf is fed unformatted/sloppy data.
Well for that, you need _users_. :)
g.
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