• • • • • • • • • at Wikibooks BASIC (an for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of, whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. In 1964, and designed the original BASIC language at. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only and tended to learn.
Apart from Visual Basic, C + + can also be used to design visual programs. License: Free OS: Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Language: EN Version: 2017. In our days, C++ language is one of the most widely used languages in. BBC BASIC for Windows is an advanced implementation of BBC BASIC for PCs running Microsoft Windows™ (Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10), providing the programmer with a familiar language but with a modern interface. It combines the simplicity of BASIC with the sophistication of a structured language.
In addition to the language itself, Kemeny and Kurtz developed the (DTSS), which allowed multiple users to edit and run BASIC programs at the same time. This general model became very popular on systems like the and in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Produced an entire computer line for this method of operation, introducing the series in the late 1960s and continuing sales into the 1980s. Many early video games trace their history to one of these versions of BASIC. The emergence of early in the mid-1970s led to the development of the original in 1975. Due to the tiny available on these machines, often 4 kB, a variety of dialects were also created.
BASIC was available for almost any system of the era, and naturally became the de facto programming language for the systems that emerged in the late 1970s. These machines almost always had a BASIC installed by default, often in the machine's or sometimes on a cartridge.
BASIC fell from use during the later 1980s as newer machines with far greater capabilities came to market and other programming languages (such as and ) became tenable. In 1991, released, combining a greatly updated version of BASIC with a. This reignited use of the language and 'VB' remains a major programming language in the form of. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Origin [ ] was the math department chairman at Dartmouth College, and largely on his reputation as an innovator in math teaching, in 1959 they won an award for $500,000 to build a new department building. Had joined the department in 1956, and from the 1960s they agreed on the need for programming literacy among students outside the traditional STEM fields. Kemeny later noted that “Our vision was that every student on campus should have access to a computer, and any faculty member should be able to use a computer in the classroom whenever appropriate.
It was as simple as that.' Kemeny and Kurtz had made two previous experiments with simplified languages, (Dartmouth Simplified Code) and DOPE (Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment). These did not progress past a single freshman class. New experiments using Fortran and ALGOL followed, but Kurtz concluded these languages were too tricky for what they desired. As Kurtz noted, Fortran had numerous oddly-formed commands, notably an 'almost impossible-to-memorize convention for specifying a loop: 'DO 100, I = 1, 10, 2'.
Is it '1, 10, 2' or '1, 2, 10', and is the comma after the line number required or not?' Moreover, the lack of any sort of immediate feedback was a key problem; the machines of the era used and took long times to complete a run of a program. Kurtz suggested that offered a solution; a single machine could divide up its processing time among many users, giving them the illusion of having a slow computer to themselves. Small programs would return results in a few seconds. This led to increasing interest in a system using time-sharing and a new language specifically for use by non-STEM students. Kemeny wrote the first version of BASIC.