dhoerl@cbnewsm.att.com (david.f.hoerl) (08/28/90)
I'm in the process of helping someone move from programmable calculators to the world of Mac. This person is starting with the CCS2 programmable calculator program, but would like to move "on". C or Pascal is beyond this person at this point, but I think that BASIC might be OK. What's important is access to floating point (SANE extended) math and the abilty to call lots of previously defined subroutines. Would anyone who has any experience with Mac based BASIC packages please respond. I'll summarize if I get enough information to summarize. Thanks. David Hoerl AT&T Bell Laboratories
kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg) (08/30/90)
In article <1990Aug28.023503.7036@cbnewsm.att.com> dhoerl@cbnewsm.att.com (david.f.hoerl) writes: >I'm in the process of helping someone move from programmable calculators >to the world of Mac. This person is starting with the CCS2 programmable >calculator program, but would like to move "on". C or Pascal is beyond >this person at this point, but I think that BASIC might be OK. What's >important is access to floating point (SANE extended) math and the abilty >to call lots of previously defined subroutines. Consider HyperCard and HyperTalk. HyperTalk has some real limits, but so does BASIC. The advantages are that it is probably about the same difficulty as BASIC but it lets you at much more of the Mac with a lot less work. Some might argue that HyperTalk teaches a few of the concepts of object-oriented programming. Particularly when HyperCard 2.0 finally ships HyperCard becomes much more powerful. Kent Borg internet: kent@camex.com MacNet: kentborg AOL: kent borg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617) 426-3577 "Congress was about to scuttle our defense department ... Could our military industrial complex be backing Iraq?" - my mother, 8-4-90
Mike.Lininger@p1.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Lininger) (09/01/90)
david.f.hoerl writes... >I'm in the process of helping someone move from programmable calculators >to the world of Mac. This person is starting with the CCS2 programmable >calculator program, but would like to move "on". C or Pascal is beyond >this person at this point, but I think that BASIC might be OK. What's >important is access to floating point (SANE extended) math and the abilty >to call lots of previously defined subroutines. Kent Borg repies... KB> Consider HyperCard and HyperTalk. HyperTalk has some real limits, KB> but so does BASIC. The advantages are that it is probably about KB> the same difficulty as BASIC but it lets you at much more of KB> the Mac with a lot less work.... David You might want to also take a look at Zedcor's ZBasic. This package has all the simplicity of BASIC yet gives full Toolbox control for the move advanced BASIC programmer. Mike -- Mike Lininger via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.1!Mike.Lininger INET: Mike.Lininger@p1.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG