Hello - new member in Bath

notjim · Post by **notjim** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:58 pm

I gave a talk before Christmas about how much I loved my VIC-20 in 1983

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUjLP7rthfg

which has reminded me of how much I loved my VIC-20 so I am starting to look for one on ebay and in the meantime found this site and so this is me saying hello.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:18 am

Great presentation! I really love that you can laugh at the VIC and celebrate it at the same time. Welcome to Denial!

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:38 am

Welcome... always could do with a few more folks from the UK

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:52 am

Nice! But "there were no small letters"??? You never accidentally happened to press shift and commodore together?

notjim · Post by **notjim** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:39 am

Re small letters, damn it; stuff you forget over 30 years!

Otherwise, thanks. As soon as I buy one on ebay I was hoping to see if I could do some project euler problems on it, it would be fun being forced to do them efficiently.

Empa Kendo · Post by **Empa Kendo** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:11 pm

Great talk on youtube, btw. On the note of programming for kids: I am currently getting my boys to type in BASIC programs from the VIC20 manual into my VIC20. The manual is a great friendly book, superb for children.

I was surprised how good it was and wonder if there is anything as accessible (for budding programmers) today?

notjim · Post by **notjim** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:16 pm

I learn VIC BASIC from the "An Introduction to Basic" books which I remember as being great. One thing that made basic straight forward for beginners was that the for loop with its NEXT I and NEXT J expresses what is happening very clearly - it does it again but for the next value of I.

I find Ruby very good for teaching kids, the duck-typing helps with explaining variables and there is less boiler-plate than C++ or whatever, this book seems good for beginners

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/