On 03/01/15 15:49, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On 03-Jan-2015, at 21:08, Rajesh Mehar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I've been looking to get back to it. Any ideas on how I can get >> started on this project? I may be able to afford a couple of hours >> a week. > > Go right back to coding in basic? There are clones of various basic > interpreters, even the retro ones like gwbasic and basica, available > on most modern operating systems. > > > It is good fun programming in basic, especially when you get to > playing with pseudo machine code in basic programs - see if you can > find Ian Stewart's hilarious basic tutorials for the ZX spectrum > somewhere or the other (possibly online or amazon used book sellers) > > ps: in the same boat as you, only I made a conscious decision early > on, to stay away from programming hands on, yet retain enough > knowledge to talk to coders, testers, business, support, customers
BASIC might not be the best tool to move on to more complex problems later, or to interact with third-party components such as Web services, though... If you want a fun language to pick up, try Clojure or Erlang :-) I can try and find a good online tutorial for one or the other if you like! Both are languages you can learn quite easily, but do really cool things with later. To turn the question around: What are you interested in? What sort of thing do you want to build? Web apps? In-browser games? Robots? Software to model quantum field theoretic models of nucleus formation? etc... ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
