{"id":20,"date":"2014-09-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-09-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T01:56:40","slug":"remembering-qbasic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/remembering-qbasic\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering QBasic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All programmers have a first language, me being a child of the early 90’s, my first programming language was Microsoft’s QBasic.\u00a0 Let me set the stage a bit, this was the early 90’s, before most people would have access to some sort of network with their computer.\u00a0 There were old books floating around in school libraries featuring games that could be typed into a BASIC<\/a> interpreter.\u00a0 Their heyday being more focused around the Apple II or Commodore 64 era computers, when BASIC was almost unavoidable.\u00a0 You can find some of these books published online now, here is the series I remember: BASIC Computer Games by David H. Ahl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the time I found these books it was actually confusing how one would actually use them, since they focused on BASIC but by the early 90’s BASIC was hidden, or unavailable on computers.\u00a0 Lucky for me Microsoft shipped QBasic with versions of Windows, so for kids with more spare time to poke around on computers, they would find it eventually.<\/p>\n

QBasic was an environment that had many features that make it a nice environment for beginners:<\/p>\n