BASIC Programming Language for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: With One of the First Programming Languages, and It's Still in Widespread Use and Still Popular"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

BASIC programming language was created early in computing history and still survives in various mutations. BASIC programming language is easy to learn and therefore it is often the first language taught to programming and Computer Science students, because they can easily pick it up and thereby learn basic programming concepts.

BASIC programming language was originally designed as an interactive timesharing language for mainframes back in 1963, by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz. It was included with IBM's PCJr and later with Microsoft Windows.

BASIC programming language stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, so it was obviously designed from the beginning to be "basic"

Actually, this was to accommodate engineers who needed to write programs to use a mainframe to accomplish some task, but didn't care about computer programming itself, they just wanted calculations for a specific project.

Microsoft sort of adopted the language. They not only made it available through their operating system, they expanded it somewhat, added object-oriented programming features and a graphical IDE / Integrated Development Environment and called it Visual Basic. The latest version has been advanced into .NET framework and is called VB.NET.

Other BASIC programming language dialects include: Liberty, THEOS, BCX, PROFAN2, QBASIC, Ethos, IBASIC, DarkBASIC and Envelop.

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