Learning to program again

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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A few years ago, I was involved in a massive motorcycle accident, and apart from the huge list of physical issues, I have a problem in thinking correctly too! - I am fully normal and then all of a sudden, I think a bit doo-lal and I am a bit nuts quite honestly.

Now, I used to be a very competent programmer.. I have coded in 6502/7501 and 68k and I have had some titles on the market many many years ago with the Commodore 16, 64, and the Atari ST series of computers.

I had also used HiSoft Basic, and prospero pascal and also Lattice C on the Atari and QBasic 4.5 on the PC and I did piddle about with early versions of visual basic years ago, but then the accident happened.

I am wanting to give programming another shot on the PC and sure, I am almost definitely going to fail with my head being what it is, but can anyone recommend any software that will let me get very quick and very easy results, without me having to plan too much?

even better, is there a basic language that exists still?

I am simply way off getting into any forms of C / Java at all just yet and I am fully aware that computers are designed to work differently these days, but surely there is something that I could try out?

Thanks.
 
They are getting on a bit now but there are various variants of Blitz Basic that are pretty easy to get going and get results with - but a bit dated if you want to use newer graphic features, etc. or their monkey product might be worth a try - very quick and easy to get result without complex programming.

www.blitzbasic.com

Many of their products or the lite version of are now free as well.
 
  • BlitzMax
  • MonkeyX
  • GameMaker Studio
  • RPGMaker MV (I think that's the latest one on Steam)
  • Python + pyGame
  • Leadwerks + LUA (and C++ later)
  • Unity3D (has 2D features) + C#
  • JavaScript + whatever web monkeys use these days for graphics and games
  • Haxe (an open Flash platform): https://haxe.org/use-cases/games/
  • VB/C# via the free Visual Studio download, if you want to try to relive your VB glory days

Also this: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/. Let's you compile code online. Look for similar tutorials/cloud tools if you don't want to mess around setting up things for simple throwaway code.

Things have moved on, but not necessarily into the harder to grasp conceptual territory. You should be alright. Games is an obvious outlet for insta-gratification, hence the focus. For theory, you could always go on MIT OCW (under electrical engineering and computer science / applied maths), edX or just YouTube.

Good luck.
 
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