{"id":8,"date":"2019-06-27T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renejm.net\/websites\/basic256wordpress\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2019-06-27T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T16:20:43","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach \nanybody (especially middle and high-school students) the basics of \ncomputer programming.  It uses traditional control structures like \ngosub, for\/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program \nflow-control works.  It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them \ndraw pictures on screen in minutes, and a set of detailed, \neasy-to-follow tutorials that introduce programming concepts through fun\n exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2006\/09\/14\/basic\/index_np.html\">Why Johnny Can\u2019t Code<\/a>,\u201d the article that inspired BASIC-256.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We welcome all tutorials and sample programs written for BASIC-256, as well as any feedback or ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original author may be contacted at drblast [at] \nusers.sourceforge.net the current maintainer is available  at renejm \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach anybody (especially middle and high-school students) the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for\/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works. It has a built-in graphics mode which lets them draw pictures on screen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic256.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}