This is a recommendation for a Beginner's Computer Programming.
Small Basic.
Specifically, the version now offered by Microsoft. It is so much easier to learn than Visual Studio and its various flavors. It is simple, clean and follows modern ideas about object programming.
It is a very good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about how computers work. An it can do some rather cool things with a little effort.
Here is the place to start:
Get Started with Small Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 06, 2012, 04:59:31 PM

This is a recommendation for a Beginner's Computer Programming.
Small Basic.
Specifically, the version now offered by Microsoft. It is so much easier to learn than Visual Studio and its various flavors. It is simple, clean and follows modern ideas about object programming.
It is a very good starting point for anyone wanting to know more about how computers work. An it can do some rather cool things with a little effort.
Here is the place to start:
Get Started with Small Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

Well Geek, a little late in the game for me, but I can appreciate how it may very well help some of the youngins. Well done. overthehill

Never too late.

An interesting fact I found out some time ago, is that when starting a career in I.T., what ever the pupil learned in the first year of study, had been outdated by the third year.