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August 15, 2006
MS PC Backyard Programming
10 Print "Go back 25 Years."
20 Print"Growing up with a Commodore Vic 20 & C64 and trying to get my head around writing my own software with Basic was always fun and an integral part of computing. Having programming tools available to you to 'program the computer'"
30 Goto 2005
40 Print " Microsoft Visual Studio Express versions of their programming suites are FREE forever rather than the initial 12 months that were originally offered."
50 Goto 2006
60 Print "Adding the Microsoft Robotics Studio which should help with the NXT Lego Purchase."
70 Goto Today
80 Print " The latest addition being the Microsoft XNA Game Studio so you can create your own games for the XBox 360. "
90 Goto Summary
100 Print "All of these are extremely powerful programming tools that allow anyone to create their own Windows, Internet or XBox applications for next to nix and brings back that old fashioned part of computing where you 'programmed your computer', not to mention the educational value of such tools"
110 Goto Techmeme OR Microsoft Presspass
Posted by Stephen at August 15, 2006 08:22 PM
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Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh! The GOTO monster has found the blog. I thought I'd evaded it in Darwin all those years ago! It's following me!
I had to actually think back to those good (bad) times of BASIC.
Thanks for the memories..... NOT!!!
Posted by: Newman at August 16, 2006 01:00 PM