✨🎙🔊📻 QB64 REPORT S03E06: Interview with Robert Ryan Carter, from Florida

[FellippeHeitor]

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In this episode, let's hear from Robert Ryan Carter (@RCcola1987). Ryan for short. He's a long time user/patron of the project, and also the new member of the QB64 Team, helping us with the business and management side of it all.

[CharlieJV]

That was good stuff !

Thanks to you both for taking the time.

[bplus]

Dang, Sheldon Cooper was 10 years old when he took apart the refrigerator to fix a noise.

@RCcola1987 you got him beat by a couple of years! :)

[OldMoses]

Ryan's parting comments really resonated with me. I've tried to wrap my head around the syntax of other languages, mainly Python and C++. I get into it a for a while and at a certain point I'm like, this is the same basic logic structures I do in QB64, only now I have to write it in Finnish, Thai or Swahili... why bother? All the important tools are there, or if they're not, then write one.

[RCcola1987]

@OldMoses This is why we need to get the kids of today learning programming with QB64. Since I program in many languages I can say I do the majority in QB64 and from the look of the discord I have been seeing people doing the same thing! Thank you for your support.

[Dimster]

@RCcola1987 .. the interview was too short. You may need to write a book of your history with QB, I'm sure it would be fascinating.

QB's history seems steeped in games programing and Terry Ritchie's Game Programing comes to mind, but have you personally used QB programing more in a business application? Do you feel colleges and universities would benefit knowing QB because of the potential application to their future careers?

I'm not sure if this meta verse will catch on in the future or not, but it seems it may be something our educators could be facing. Perhaps the QB gaming history could have transferable skills/codes in that development.

[RCcola1987]

@Dimster Pretty much every skill learned in QB64 and QB in general is applicable to more than just coding. For example the use of math and logic in programming. This is very useful in business, finance, and teaching a way of thinking and problem solving.

QB64 also allows students to have almost instant feedback on what they have coded. Weather that be no output or a fantastically colorful screen. Also for anyone that has tried to learn C or Java its very hard to even understand that basic concepts since you have to learn a completely new language. I mean that all the vocabulary and grammar is so different from the native language of the student. It creates a huge unneeded barrier to entry. Hence the place for QB64 and bringing a new generation into programming and hopefully retro tech.

[Qwerkey]

Ryan, good to hear our new Team member.  Things sound very positive for QB64's future.  I summarise a quote from your interview: "if I want to do something serious I come back to QB(64)", yay!

Enough of the bouquets, now for the brickbats!  I find not a single post in the Programs board by author @RCcola1987 !  (Maybe you did stuff for the defunct site?).  I suggest that this should be corrected, and pretty soon.  And if it's good enough, the Curating Team might add it to our Samples.