Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-18 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:07:59 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com napísal: The lazarus metapackage loads the gtk2 variant of the ide. Any thoughts about the qt4 variant? (I'm inclined to go with the metapackage if I do this, QT has never been anything but opaque to me, so far.)

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:27:46 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On 8/15/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: How about Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE? As I have understood, it's the linux counterpart for Turbo Pascal :-? Hmm. Breaking out synaptic, I see that there are metapackages for lazarus

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
On 8/15/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:32:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
bwbasic is available along with g77 and a few versions of forth. There's a fortran95 system that can be downloaded outside of debian that does graphics and works on windows systems too and if the person you're trying to help is engineering-bound, forth is a good language to pick up. Julian

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-14 Thread Doug
On 08/13/2012 09:32 AM, Joel Rees wrote: I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing the reasons for the methods of solution

[OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:32:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing the reasons for the

Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing the reasons for the methods of solution they are trying to teach him by rote.

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Joel Rees writes: Any other suggestions? Look at qtoctave and maxima. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Joel, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, what I'm looking for is something that will allow him to loop through the equations and watch the results. Numbers are easy, of course. Perl (his only language so far) gets us that far. He enjoyed playing with the graphical equation

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:18 PM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Joel Rees writes: Any other suggestions? Look at qtoctave and maxima. Yeah, nice stuff, but more of the dog that bit him. I think he's spoiled, in a sense. It's as if he thinks he knows that the computer will figure all

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Joel Rees wrote: I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing the reasons for the methods of solution they are trying to