[Coco] Programming in BASIC YouTube series

[Steve Strowbridge]

Thanks for the feedback Stephen, this is something I've been wanting to do
for a LONG time and will hopefully fulfill a life-long dream, I never left
the minor leagues of BASIC and learned any real or serious languages.  I
was quite fortunate that once I moved to the PC, Microsoft Quick Basic
compiler allowed me to pick up with zero learning curve and create some
pretty amazing PC software that compiled into a stand-alone EXE file.  This
again kept my creative tank full, but was also so "good enough" that I
didn't need to learn any other languages, and I eventually stopped playing
with BASIC by the end of the 90's, and regret never going to "the next
level" with lower-level languages.

Seeing how many projects in both hardware and software that are going on,
I'm uber motivated to create a software project to bring to next year's
fest.  The goal of this series was to first re-learn for myself, second to
possibly teach someone who had no previous experience, and lastly, to
create a game (or more).

I have now also set a challenge for myself to learn 6809 assembly after I
complete this series (Which I will also document via YouTube), and,
hopefully, have a "real" game that I can demo at CoCoFEST! next year,
hopefully even getting it on a cartridge, but baby steps first :)


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <
SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> How about a series of URBANE programming.
>
> Maybe some use may occur.
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Strowbridge" <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCo Mailing List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:38 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Programming in BASIC YouTube series
>
>
> >I started a series on YouTube where I am going back through the process of
> > re-leaning Color and Extended Color BASIC for the CoCo 1&2 to ultimately
> > re-write a number of my BASIC games I created as a kid that I no longer
> > have.
> >
> > Since I have to somewhat re-educate myself to the language, I thought
> there
> > may be at least 1 or 2 other people in the world who may find this
> > interesting, so I decided to make it a chapter-by-chapter series, with
> the
> > season finale being the creation of a new BASIC game.
> >
> > The link to this series is:
> > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYA1fP5KwRiOwefFIIF1Alid
> >
> > If you already know BASIC, and lower languages like assembly and C, you
> > aren't going to learn anything new here, but anybody who only dabbled in
> > BASIC or perhaps never dug too deep in may find it to be of interest.
> >
> > I have added two more chapters today so I'm currently up to chapter 5, I
> > hope to crank these out at a quicker pace, so hopefully a few chapters
> per
> > week will be the release schedule.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing any feedback, and as soon as I'm done with
> this,
> > I'm going to jump into the deep end and start to learn 6809 assembly,
> which
> > I have zero previous experience with and document that as well.
> >
> >
> > Steve Strowbridge, aka
> > The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> > http://ogsteviestrow.com
> > ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
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