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dragonbonheur
11y ago
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It takes less than a week to be productive in any modern dialect of BASIC. How long for Unity/XCode/Swift/Android?
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emsy
11y ago
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It's not about being productive. It's about engaging a younger generation into programming.
dragonbonheur
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11y ago
How do you get children engaged into programming if you deny them the chance of finishing their projects fast? Are you actually claiming that the experience that modern versions of BASIC provide cannot be applied to other languages?
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