QUESTION 5:
BASIC was designed in the 1960s. Is it too out-of-date to be used? (Hint: remember those two facts about programming languages.)
The language BASIC emphasizes the BASIC ideas found in all programming languages.
The language BASIC was designed in the early 1960s for teaching the basic principles of programming to non-science majors. It has been popular ever since. There are many versions of BASIC. These notes use QBasic, a version that once came free with Microsoft operating systems.
With QBasic you can easily write small programs and get the idea of what programming is about. Other versions of BASIC are intended for professional programmers who expect to write programs that are many thousands of lines long. Our programs will not get that long.
BASIC was designed in the 1960s. Is it too out-of-date to be used? (Hint: remember those two facts about programming languages.)