{"id":168,"date":"2010-03-04T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:01:10","slug":"learning-how-to-make-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/learning-how-to-make-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning How To Make Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallbasicscreenshoten-us-ff384126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-169\" title=\"smallbasicscreenshot(en-us)-ff384126\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallbasicscreenshoten-us-ff384126-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallbasicscreenshoten-us-ff384126-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smallbasicscreenshoten-us-ff384126.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My first experiences in computer programming were in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QBasic\">QBasic<\/a>, a simple DOS based version of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC_programming_language\">BASIC<\/a>. Qbasic has evolved into <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbasic\/default.aspx\">VB.NET<\/a> and it&#8217;s sister <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vcsharp\/default.aspx\">C#<\/a> and the development software Visual Studio. While an amazing tool set it just isn&#8217;t as simple as it once was. It would likely have overwhelmed me as a 7th grader.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/beginner\/ff384126.aspx\"><strong>Microsoft&#8217;s Small Basic<\/strong><\/a>. It makes learning to program simple again, it has a built in turtle (for those that remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logo_(programming_language)\">LOGO<\/a>), and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first experiences in computer programming were in QBasic, a simple DOS based version of BASIC. Qbasic has evolved into VB.NET and it&#8217;s sister C# and the development software Visual Studio. While an amazing tool set it just isn&#8217;t as simple as it once was. It would likely have overwhelmed me as a 7th grader. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}