bwbasic is available along with g77 and a few versions of forth. There's a fortran95 system that can be downloaded outside of debian that does graphics and works on windows systems too and if the person you're trying to help is engineering-bound, forth is a good language to pick up. Julian V. Noble wrote a book called "Scientific Forth" which ought to help out quite a bit.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Joel Rees wrote: > On 8/15/12, Camale?n <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:32:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to show my son how to use his computer to help him solve his > >> high school math. He's in his second year at an engineering/technology > >> prep high school here in the Kansai area of Japan and has trouble seeing > >> the reasons for the methods of solution they are trying to teach him by > >> rote. > >> > >> heh. > >> > >> Anyway, what I'm looking for is something that will allow him to loop > >> through the equations and watch the results. Numbers are easy, of > >> course. Perl (his only language so far) gets us that far. > > > > (...) > > > > How about Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE? As I have understood, it's the > > linux counterpart for Turbo Pascal :-? > > Hmm. > > Breaking out synaptic, I see that there are metapackages for lazarus > and freepascal. > > The lazarus metapackage loads the gtk2 variant of the ide. Any > thoughts about the qt4 variant? (I'm inclined to go with the > metapackage if I do this, QT has never been anything but opaque to me, > so far.) > > Wow! 109M download, 691M of disk space expected to be used. > > Well, I do have the free space, and I see that part of that is gdb and > other dev stuff I need anyway. > > > Greetings, > > > > -- > > Camale?n > > > > -- > Joel Rees > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/caar43ip1xosjacqn9q9jsbnmdwwdt+vci8c2_aaqkhtfehy...@mail.gmail.com > > Support your local church or synagogue, worship at Bank Of America! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1208170025330.11...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg