On 2/10/2020 12:29 AM, Paul wrote:
wrote:
On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 1:56:49 AM UTC+1, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 15:38:10 -0800 (PST), wrote:

It contains no real/decent programming language, unlike ms-dos that
did contain QBASIC, and the C64 which also contained BASIC.

Something is better than nothing.
Microsoft Visual Studio is free. Not included within Windows itself, but
still easy to get.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Also, everyone who has Microsoft Office already has a Visual Basic (VBA)
development environment, so that could be another option. Each of the MS
Office applications has the VBA IDE built in.

Kids may not know this, they clueless and fresh behind the ears !

They may just click what is available on the computer

Though nowadays with internet and webbrowsing/surfing they are more
likely to discover a website to offer programming or maybe via lego toys.

Though this assumes they have internet access and/or lego technic toys


Bye,
Â* Skybuck =D

The free Visual Studio is called the Community Edition,
and it has a few programming languages included. They
removed C I think, in the latest version, and you might
have to go back a version to get C. The Microsoft blessed
equivalent is "C#".

Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition still allows C. The trick is
to create a C++ project and then add code files with a .c extension
instead of .cpp. Visual Studio 2019 will automatically know the
difference.
Microsoft has been doing this at least as far back as Visual Studio
2017, the version I have.

Charlie