Does anyone remember BASIC?

10 PRINT "Hello World!"
20 GOTO 10

I learned it when I had my Commodore 64. Recently I've gotten the itch to dive back in the development world. So I'm refreshing my memory on HTML and CSS (yes I know they're not programming languages) then move on to JavaScript and either React or Angular. Hopefully I will be able to contribute more to discussion on here than just lurk.

Sure do ;)

Spent many years writing basic programs before switching to Turbo Pascal, and then back to basic with Visual Basic.

Still remember the moment a program wrote 0 and not “SYNTAX ERROR” :)

@Voxera That's awesome. One of my biggest regrets was not pursuing that initial love of coding I got. Well, I'm correcting that mistake now...many many many years later.

Cool.
Now put the zombie back in the box along the batch scripts.

@magicMirror no. If we fail to remember we are doomed to repeat the mistakes ;)

This post makes me fell old 🙃

@Nanos depends who you ask, but 1950s were before my time. Still an admirer of the early days of tech though.

It wasn't until the late 90s I started to dab my hands with VisualBasic and Dos and basic on the Commodore 64

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

Yes, this line is valid in BASIC (good times)

Bringing back memories of learning QBASIC when I was a kid...

yeah, reading those two lines still automatically conjures the effect in my mind/imagination :)

Yup. Between that , ti-994a basic and Atari basic I picked up all my “basic” coding skills from there lol

@react-guy And can cause immeasurable problems when used in anything but experimentation ;)

Had a colleague that used it :(

@djeddiej was that similar to the TI-99a or just a misspelling?

My neighbor had a TI-99a.

@Voxera just missing the forward slash otherwise it was correctly identified . :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

@djeddiej Ah, it was a 4, not an a :D

But it was 40 years ago or so :P

@C0D4 Hey, old=experienced. 👍

@Voxera yeah I’ve long lost that skill … but now I am inspired to go back and get that thing out of the dust bin lol

Wow, I didn’t expect to get this type of response. Well that tells me I probably should have followed the developer path back then while it was staring me right in the face because look at all of you now. I wish I was where all of you are now.

@RichardH its never to late.

While experience takes time, the actual current tech changes fast enough that you can catch up in a short while.

@Voxera Oh I know. Despite it feeling like it is, I have been round long enough to know that, but thanks for acknowledging it. I'm currently refreshing my memory on HTML, CSS, and this coming week I'll start on JavaScript then either React or Angular. I found a few jobs for an IT person that also understands some of the development side so maybe that's my in but I'm quite a bit over qualified for the IT side of it. Hopefully they give me a chance.