techBASIC Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 31 reviews. Read all reviews for techBASIC for iPhone.
techBASIC is paid iOS app published by Byte Works, Inc.
Cool, useful and daunting all at once!
AlejandroPapita
Readily accesses iPhone and iPad functions such as accelerometer data so that you can write your own programs and do inventive, innovative stuff, even running Arduino sensors and what not that you connect your Apple device.
Chrome plated BASIC
Techfoamer
I found this while researching ways to test and use Bluetooth Low Energy. Wish I would have found it sooner! Turns the iPad into a really powerful testing tool.
Program your own GUI!
tre-flip
I enjoy building electronics and programming. This app is awesome to put both of my hobbies together! There are some peripherals that already passed apples MFi program but not as much as I'd like. While this app doesn't bridge that gap between electronics and GUI completely- you can't just build a logic analyzer and connect it to the ipad to display the output, it comes pretty close! This app is a great and enjoyable tool for people with similar interests!
Bad technical support
Boris Belfer
This program is very outdated and has many bugs. At this point - it is not clear, if developer will support it anymore. I am now transferring all code to SmartBasic and recommending it for our clients. I would most certainly suggest not to buy TechBasic, at least, until the developer comes up with serious update.
Lovely Programming Environment
Sanjay B
This is a terrific (IDE) Integrated Development Environment for rapidly developing powerful applications on the iPad. The Bluetooth Low Energy and Graphics capability are particularly easy to use. The documentation and related blog are great and the developer is very quick to respond to emails.
Unusable
MitchBook
Don’t get fooled by the intently imprecise description and the general lack of pertinent documentation. This toy is nowhere near usable to develop real apps for iOS. The video on their site is made to make you believe you can design the UI with a graphic editor and that is not the case : all controls must be initiated in code, not unlike last century with AppleSoft Basic on the Apple II. So much for an intensely graphic environment. Plus, how do you want to seriously program with the virtual keyboard ? This seems terribly data acquisition oriented and may be fine for that, but do not think about it to create everyday apps :/
BASIC fun for All!
Phoon
This is why you buy an iPad. The friendly folks at Byte Works have done something spectacular. They have brought the thrill of writing code back to even aging first-generation coders--the guys and gals who went from slide rules to punch cards and BASIC. This is a killer app because they took the time to do it right! techBASIC is not perfect, but it is the best-in-class for iOS and I've tried the others. The documentation is good. Their support team is enthusiastic and responds. I hadn't written BASIC code in 30 years ... it's like riding a bicycle and they make it so easy! For younger generations, learning BASIC is a fun entry into programming. BUY IT. Worth every penny.
Must-Have App
SteveCurd
Whether you are a pro developer, scientist, tinkerer, part time hacker, or just want to learn how to develop for portable devices, techBASIC is exactly what you need. I couldn't be happier with the IDE and the amazing results I have been able to achieve. Just buy it already!
good enough
1hour19min
does everything that needs to be done to interface with bluetooth and wifi/tcp connected devices. I would like to see a little modernization in some of the operators though. Its tiresome punching out "a bitand b" instead of "a&b" and "a|b|c" might be faster than "a bitor b bitor c" but its not a show stopper. a-- a-=1
Eh
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Does everything you would want it to do unless you want to make an actual selling app then you might as well just learn xcode because you need to buy the 50 dollar app for mac which just uses xcode to compile it