Speaking of LOGO (and the Terrapin..), I assume PILOT is still around in some form? Correct me here, but I believe that a +BASIC+ implementation of PILOT was released for either the VIC-20 (??) or the C-64. I recall typing it in, back in the early 1980s, just for kicks.
Could that actually have been for the VIC? An admittedly simple (and restrictive) high-level language coded in CBM BASIC, with like 3K of RAM? =) On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/27/2016 02:52 PM, Jay West wrote: > > > > At the risk of being flamed... I'll mention that if the kid is more > > visually driven, you might try introducing him to an Arduino Uno or > > similar. Something he can see the results of his code in lights and > > dials. > > One of my fondest memories of my long-deceased father was when he took a > plank of pine and built a 1-tube radio with me. I think it was a 1G4G > (triode). We wound and shellacked the coils. Earphones and A and B > batteries. It was wonderful--and I was hooked. > > I don't know if ARM or AVR BASICs are available, but you can purchase > one-board MCUs (like the Maple mini) for next to nothing. I think that > getting that going with BASIC or any other language would be a great > adventure for a young boy. > > After all, in a couple of years, he'll be teaching *you* how to use a PC. > > --Chuck > > > >
