For me my progression was: 8th grade middle school: Apple 2 - Logo Home computer (between 8th and 9th grade): Commodore 64 - BASIC, assembly 10th grade high school: IBM PC - BASIC, Pascal College: Macintosh: Pascal, C, assembly So for the Commodore 64 you had free BASIC and when that was too slow, then you went to assembly for faster speed. I would say for most people is was the same BASIC, then assembly. If you had to take a high school or college course, then other languages such as Pascal, Fortran etc. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
After posting my assembly-for-newbs question, it occurred to me that perhaps I should be asking this instead: with no experience other than LOGO and then BASIC, which (period 1980s) language should I learn next? Was it normal to go from BASIC directly to assembly (is BASIC enough preparation), or were people better off getting some in-between experience with a language such as Pascal or something else?
Keep in mind that my natural aptitude is liberal arts, not math. :)
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com