Basic skills still crucial in era of ‘laptop learning’ Technology can unlock creativity but in that fateful Year 12 exam, Dr Google will not be at hand.

TL;DR: As of August 22, you can get the CrowPi L Basic Kit with Real Raspberry Pi Laptop for Learning Programming & Hardware for just $270.99 instead of $279 — that's a 2% discount.

BBC Basic did a lot of things, and often quite well. During the early 1980s, it extended the BASIC languages with easier loop structures, like IF/THEN/ELSE, and ran faster than Microsoft's version.

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The … ...