chi wrote:
Check out Guillaume's Beginner Tutorials on
YouTube!
I've checked out some of his videos and found they aren't truly beginner-focused. At minimum, he seems to assume programming/syntax knowledge of the viewer.
In watching other of the supposed "beginner" videos, I find that, like many others "teaching" programming, he seems to have forgotten what it's like to be a beginner, and jumps straight into concepts that are beyond beginner level. His intro videos are more just front-loading a bunch of info, with no examples or projects to apply that knowledge to. As I said... seems a lot of people creating "beginner content" make that same mistake. They forget that things which are easy and obvious to them aren't to someone who's brand-new. Too often it seems like they just want to show off how good they are, more than actually teaching anything.
I had the same experience with that book I asked about earlier. It's a lot of front-loading information, with very little application so I can see how/when/why to use it, etc.
Ironically, despite being a 'BASIC' language, I'm finding it hard to find good beginner content for it. Moreso than I have for any other one I've looked into. In fact, I haven't found anything that I could follow and feel like I'm learning and absorbing how to do anything with it.
This is the only language I can't find a "hello world" tutorial for. And that's pretty much a universal, step 1, "go-to" beginner's thing.
So, I don't know. I feel like this language is intended for people who already know how to program. Not so much for someone you'd expect to be looking for a BASIC language to begin with. Or at least I've yet to find anything to make me think otherwise.