Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!hsdndev!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!rgonzal From: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: ** Is MS QuickBasic worth looking at? Message-ID: Date: 16 Jun 91 20:10:50 GMT References: <51051@muvms3.bitnet> <11373@bunny.GTE.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 I think it depends on how much of an investment you want to make in learning Mac programming. I use MS QuickBASIC to teach a microcomputer graphics course on the Mac, and I also use Think C to teach an object-oriented programing course. The students in the QuickBASIC course are writing apps with full user interfaces by mid-semester, while the Think C students are still trying to get simple apps to run without crashing. There is no doubt that BASIC is an easier language to learn than C, and in my opinion if you just want to develop one or two nice Mac progurams, you're much better off with QB than TC. You can write about 95% of a QB app without even delving into the Toolbox directly, but just using the built-in statements for graphics, menus, windows, dialogs, mouse tracking, etc. I would hope that at the same time that Microsoft upgrades Mac QB, it will come out with a Windows 3 version of IBM QB which supports all these nice graphics features of the Mac version, allowing cross-compilation. But maybe that's wishful thinking!! -Ralph (rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu)