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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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makmanalp wrote: post #12

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…

Mine was "How to Create Adventure Games" by Christopher Lampton (1986) at my municipal library. BASIC code that I entered into my dad's computer, which had QBASIC pre-installed.

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by wkirby »

That screenshot takes me waaaay back. Wrote my very first code in that IDE sitting in my dad’s living room, copying examples from a letter my mom’s cousin sent us in the mail. Made a choose your own adventure game about a squirrel climbing a tree. Just if statement after if statement after if statement…

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by mysterydip »

Stratoscope wrote: post #70

So nice to see this! I was one of the original developers of the "visual" side of Visual Basic. It was called Ruby at the time (no relation to the programming language) and was going to be a customizable shell for Windows 3.0. The idea was that individual Windows users would create their own personal desktop using our visual editor and "gizmos" (later called by the much more boring name "controls") to make their own…

Thank you for empowering my first foray into professional software development! It just made making small utilities to get things done so easy.

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by philiplu »

calimoro78 wrote: post #30
makmanalp wrote: post #12

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…

This! I want my kids to do the same but are really unclear as to how this is done today without BASIC. I am not psyched about tools that help you merely build platformers with WYSIWYG. Any ideas?

My kid (15 yo) keeps producing games in Python on his iPhone using Pythonista. Latest one is a Tetris clone with load/save game, music, animations on removing a line. I offer to help if he runs into problems but he prefers to hack away and learn on his own. Proud dad here :-)

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

bluedino wrote: post #52

Man, that 1995-2001 era Windows UI was like, peak Windows. It was so crisp and clean. Visual C++ and Visual Basic of the time were far from perfect, but they let you just get things done(tm) XP was right around the corner and it's been downhill from there.

You can have that in XP, Vista, and 7 with classic mode.

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by makmanalp »

pshc wrote: post #71
makmanalp wrote: post #12

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…

Mine was "How to Create Adventure Games" by Christopher Lampton (1986) at my municipal library. BASIC code that I entered into my dad's computer, which had QBASIC pre-installed.

Look!

https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by makmanalp »

galkk wrote: post #65
makmanalp wrote: post #12

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…

Same thing was with random turbopascal libraries and, later, Delphi’s vcl controls. Damn Borland with their in-between library version incompatibilities. To this day I think it was the reason of their downfall. > which taught me basic win32 programming to do things like have an icon in the status area next to the clock, On one of programming Fido groups one guy literally had tagline “to put an icon in the area where…

I remember Delphi being the one that people lamented the loss of when VB was gaining in popularity. And ShellNotifyIcon - how could I forget? :D

Re: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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Post by makmanalp »

calimoro78 wrote: post #30
makmanalp wrote: post #12

Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%... ) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then. Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and though…

This! I want my kids to do the same but are really unclear as to how this is done today without BASIC. I am not psyched about tools that help you merely build platformers with WYSIWYG. Any ideas?

_why the lucky stiff (also known for https://poignant.guide/ and a bunch of other things) had written something called "hackety hack" for kind of these purposes I think, but it may be abandonware at this point: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack

But I'm not sure it was anything particular about the environment per se. Like, visual basic was written to do business software, truly the most boring thing imaginable. I think it's more about being left to your own devices with something that intrigues you for hours on end without an adult trying to control or direct what you're doing. Maybe. I'm not sure :-)

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