From the Wikipedia entry: The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965. The LMC is generally used to teach students, because it models a simple von Neumann architecture computer … Continue reading
Tag Archives: BASIC
So today (30th April, 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah! The very first BASIC program: 10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END To help celebrate this, I’ve made … Continue reading
So the past two weeks has seen me attending Techcamp 2013 held at at Sparsholt college just outside Winchester. I was the lead tutor for their Raspberry Pi course. And now, a few days later I’ve finally had enough sleep … Continue reading
CESIL? What on earth is that, I hear you cry! Or maybe some of you are recoiling back in horror at the name of the 1970’s educational programming language stirring up bad memories… Or you’ve read this months MagPi magazine … Continue reading
Last month I wrote about the Raspberry Ladder Board and it appeared in the MagPi magazine too! This month I’ll finish it off with a full board description and some more software. (And if you don’t have one yet, then … Continue reading
At long last (well only 10 months or so!) I’ve released my BASIC to the world! RTB is a modern BASIC in that you don’t need line numbers and it supports nice looping constructs like while/until with named functions and … Continue reading