Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal
bwbasic is available along with g77 and a few versions of forth.
There's a fortran95 system that can be downloaded outside of debian that
does graphics and works on windows systems too and if the person you're
trying to help is engineering-bound, forth is a good language to pick
up. Julian V. Noble wrote a book called "Scientific Forth" which ought
to help out quite a bit.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Joel Rees wrote:
> On 8/15/12, Camale?n <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:32:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his
> >> high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology
> >> prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing
> >> the reasons for the methods of solution they are trying to teach him by
> >> rote.
> >>
> >> heh.
> >>
> >> Anyway, what I'm looking for is something that will allow him to loop
> >> through the equations and watch the results. Numbers are easy, of
> >> course. Perl (his only language so far) gets us that far.
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > How about Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE? As I have understood, it's the
> > linux counterpart for Turbo Pascal :-?
>
> Hmm.
>
> Breaking out synaptic, I see that there are metapackages for lazarus
> and freepascal.
>
> The lazarus metapackage loads the gtk2 variant of the ide. Any
> thoughts about the qt4 variant? (I'm inclined to go with the
> metapackage if I do this, QT has never been anything but opaque to me,
> so far.)
>
> Wow! 109M download, 691M of disk space expected to be used.
>
> Well, I do have the free space, and I see that part of that is gdb and
> other dev stuff I need anyway.
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > --
> > Camale?n
> >
>
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