I originally wrote this in the early 2000's when I was first getting into programming. TI83 Basic and QuickBASIC were my entry into programming, and this was one of the first things I coded. This was ...

I originally wrote this in the early 2000's when I was first getting into programming. TI83 Basic and QuickBASIC were my entry into programming, and this was one of the first things I coded. I have re ...

May Day 2024 was the 60th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, and multiple FOSS BASIC-related projects released new versions in celebration. Three very different flavors of BASIC seem ...

If you miss the simplicity of putting an app together with drag-and-drop in VB, there are some alternatives that might tickle your tastebuds. Brilor Sotware's FutureBasic runs on the Mac and hooks ...

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When I got my first computer, a second hand 386 running MS-DOS 6.22, I didn’t have an Internet connection. But I did have QuickBASIC installed and a stack of programming magazines the local library ...

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With its attention focused on MS-DOS, Microsoft were slow to see the problems with BASIC, and that a core language devised in 1964 just wasn't up to the challenges of 80's computing. This started to ...

Many computer programmers know multiple languages. The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement ...