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Glad to hear that's working for you, and I can see why it would. Personally, I 'code relax' with small, low-investment creative coding project. Generative / algorithmic art, for example.
Hi, thanks for sending me a PM (mail). Nice to meet you - I've always loved basic, even if my programming journey started in 2016 at age 39 with VB.NET; however, I like FreeBASIC or GWBASIC, QBASIC, or even QB64 more than modern high-tech programming languages (I try to learn C and Euphoria too) - I guess I can afford it since it's just a hobby for fun not for fee :)
Started out with PET BASIC on the Commodore 64 myself, back at the dawn of time. These days I'd probably just use Python if I wanted a easily comprehensible and managed language to do fun things in.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, television was more appealing to me than the family computer. My older sister would input basic code (she would type it from kids' computer magazines) and then let me play those games on the Apple II, or afterward on the DOS IBM machine it wasn't till i was 23 years old till i had my very own computer and internet but didn't know what it was for then at age 30 2006-7 i started using my computer for writing poetry and only at 2015-16 did i finally decided to learn to code... I wouldn't try Python (although I tried it and have it on my Windows), I know it's easy, you just pip install whatever you need; however, if you code in C, FreeBASIC, or euphoria programming languages, you will be much more rewarded for your hard efforts and the challenges
I have fond memories of transcribing reams of machine code encoded as BASIC data statements with a small prefixed loader out of the computer mags of the day. My mother would dictate and I would laboriously type, byte by byte. She... had the patience of a saint. I doubt she ever understood what we were doing or why.
I was probably not an entirely typical child.
Yes, well, I guess you can say that also about me, kinda - not entirely typical childhood and not typical life :S In a sense, I'm lucky to be able to code, as I know some excellent programmers who, once they got mentally ill, could not code anymore
Given BASIC is what you enjoy, here's something else that might tickle your fancy: A while ago, there was this movement to revive not just the programming experience of the early microcomputers, but also create a similarly limited but easy to understand execution environment (though suitably modernized to make things less complicated). It was called 'fantasy consoles'. The idea is essentially to make some simple emulated hardware that never existed in real life and let people see what they could make with it. Quite a lot, as it turns out.
I suspect you'd get a lot of enjoyment out of playing with something like PICO-8.
There's a fair amount of demoscene productions for it as well.
Wow! Thanks! I will explore it when I get the chance - who knows, I might even upload a YouTube video about it :D
If you do, I'd love it if you DM'ed me a link to it. I'd enjoy watching that.