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From:Paul C. Brennan
Date:28 Oct 2000 at 17:24:10
Subject:Re: Programming on Amiga

Hello Andrew

On 28-Oct-00, you wrote:

>> My 13 year old daughter wants to learn to program the Amiga but as
> I am just
>> a user I really cannot help her. Are there any books, CDRoms,
> Disks, etc.
>
> If your daughter wants to program in long tearm she should look in to
> C or Java.
>
> But I think what you are realy asking is that she going to be a
> newbie to programing thing. As such C has high learing curve could
> make her lose all intrest in programing before she even started. For
> that reasion I surgest a Basic programing lingo.
>
> As such BlitzBasic isn't a bad place to start. It a rather good
> programing lingo. Easy to understand but giving you that power.
> There are lot of top software writen in Blitz.
>
> Now you could buy BlitzBasic but there lot of sounds that programers
> are just about to make the Blitz freeware.
>
> I leave HTML info to others.

Thanks for info - we are overwhelmed with all the help.

All the Best,

Paul C.



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