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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? A rant... Post 303023589 by Corona688 on Wednesday 19th of September 2018 01:38:26 PM

09-19-2018

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They have to start somewhere, and have to want to. Having the vague idea they want to program won't motivate them to crack books thicker than their wrist. Most people never learn this stuff, and they're only nine!

Whatever they begin with should be simple and interactive. Mindstorm(or whatever Lego calls it now) might do the trick and won't kill them. I learned QBASIC and even now still use it a few times a year to rapidly visualize something - drawing one graphical line in QBASIC is "MODE 12", "LINE (X,X)-(Y,Y),color". Name a "real" language which can do that without five times as much preamble!

Anyway, young also means sharp. They will quickly discover the limitations of whatever tinkertoy language you give them, and that may motivate them to learn something better. I hated that couldn't do STRING=print a,b,c in BASIC. But I found that feature in C as "sprintf", which ended up leading me to Linux, UNIX, Web Development, networking, shell, and my career up to now.

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libspectrum

libspectrum(3)							     Emulators							    libspectrum(3)

NAME

       libspectrum - Sinclair ZX Spectrum support library

DESCRIPTION

       libspectrum  is	a library for reading and writing some of the file formats used by emulators of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It also contains
       routines providing information about the various Spectrum clones which were available.

       The file formats currently supported by libspectrum are:

       o Snapshots: .z80, .szx, .sna (all read/write), .zxs, .sp., .snp and +D snapshots (read only).

       o Tape images: .tzx, .tap, .spc, .sta, .ltp (read/write) and Warajevo .tap, Z80Em and CSW version 1 (read only).

       o Input recordings: .rzx (read/write).

       o Disk images: .dsk (both plain and extended), .fdi, .sad, .scl, .td0, .trd and .udi (identification only).

       o Timex cartridges: .dck (read only).

       o IDE hard disk images: .hdf (read/write).

       o Microdrive cartridge images: .mdr (read/write).

       Additionally, any files compressed with bzip2(3) or gzip(3) can be read and will be transparently decompressed.

       Full documentation for libspectrum is provided in `libspectrum.txt'.

SEE ALSO

       bzip2(3), fuse(1), fuse-utils(1), gzip(3)

       The comp.sys.sinclair Spectrum FAQ, at
       http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/index.html.

AUTHOR

       Philip Kendall (philip-fuse@shadowmagic.org.uk)

Version 1.0.0							16th December, 2010						    libspectrum(3)