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Does anyone still code in basic? (very serious question)

yes, people still code in basic. even some half serious projects.

Yeah, some finnish drunkards and a dutch teenager with dyscalculia.

"coding" in basic == does not compute. so the answer is no. nobody ever coded in basic.

I'm trying to get back into it again, (from a very long absence.) Most of the stuff I did was silly little things on the Plus/4 then some slightly more adventurous stuff on the 'miggy. I've look at some of the new basic software programs, but feel as lost as I did when I first tried to get into Blitz Basic. I'm trying to get my head around rotating a 3d cube atm, (which is fun I must add.)

Would it be possible to ask for basic programming help on here?

You're making me really sad :-(
I was enjoying this nice glass of south african red wine. After reading your last post in this thread it started to taste very bitter.

If you want to go 8bit, learn assembler (65xx, Z80...w/e).

I say Visual Basic

*hides*

<-- FreeBASIC (powerful!), VisualBasic
:P

yeah, i'm serious!

Alpha: ROFL
Scout: I can't even get my head around Assembler!!! It's bringing back nightmares....... Enjoy your drink. ;)

..but then, I don't code demo's with it :)

Depends what you mean by "basic". Ive seen robots worth ~30000Eur been programmed in a "basic" language, even done it myself - no problems what so ever, its all about what they should do if their cpu runs hot or not isnt really a problem in the big picture a fast cpu isnt comparable to the machine power. Iam not sure if STAMP is used for smaller stuff, but we still use them at school for minor projects and they have different versions, Basic versions are the cheapest ones and therefor preferable if possible so yes.. Basic is still used, but for writing software in an advanced operating system probably very limited except for VB/VB.NET whatever its called today.

(commas are overrated anyways)

Tbh, I need to get my head back into programming again, but ultimately I'll be aiming for the more complex stuff.

Looking at this FreeBASIC right now (www.freebasic.net). There are some graphics screenshots that look pretty nice, but I don't see anyone coding Debris ][ with it :). It does seem to support DirectX and OpenGL.

Would someone be able to help me out with a small problem i'm having with a program i'm trying to punch in? lol
I did have the original program on my 'miggy, but the old hdd it was on is fecked and i'd be buggered if I can remember how I did it last time.

Nah, nobody codes in BASIC anymore. These days it's all Java. Even 7-year-olds are doing it.

I did code in basic 1-2 years ago. Maybe I'll try something again someday, even quickbasic :P

Using Q only as a toy. Better than Games Factory (yeah, I've seen a "demo" done in it) though.

Yeah, 8-bit buggery:
You really should learn Java. There's a tutorial for gifted kids here on pouet designed for ages between 8-10. The author actually wrote a qbasic tutorial at the age of 12. So you really need to leave basic to the infants and focus on java and then when you are 11 some more challenging languages.

Code C.

plenty of people code in basic for their jobs. they don't make demos with it, though. most of them are in-house programmers

Aren't there still PC demos written in VB?

a few, but none interesting, afaik.

it's a little known fact that all demos for the PC are actually made in VB

thats the actual reasong why most demo sourcecode wont compile off the bat, those automatic code converters from vb to c++ are still a long way to go.