paulh ,

I found that the simpler, early BASIC dialects were a good primer for assembly language. You had to create all the structure from jumps to numeric values. Goto and gosub mapped on to jump and call instructions.

Using labels in assembly was a step up from line numbers!

Bricriu ,
@Bricriu@lemmy.world avatar

I learned TI BASIC on a Texas Instruments 99/4a back in the very early 80s. Wrote some programs from magazines, saved them on tapes, and went on to automate D&D character creation in an attempt to rules-lawyer an all-PC dwarf army.

Fun fact, though: TI BASIC lived on until at least the late 90s, on the TI graphing calculators that everyone taking Algebra/Trig had to buy -- or borrow from the school. I wrote a surreal choose-your-own-adventure game on my calculator, large enough that because of memory limitations, you couldn't open the file to edit it without deleting another, ancillary file.

And since you could transfer programs via a proprietary cable, I put that game on every school calculator and as many of my friends' as wanted it. It was still there years later when I visited.

whostosay ,

This is that real gangster shit in case any of you were wondering

kalimari ,

TI BASIC is still on my TI-84+ CE calculator that I use today

I’m not sure if the Python edition TI 84 supports it though

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Easiest Hello World program ever was in BASIC.

10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10

Don't even have to call a library or declare a variable! Meanwhile, I can't even remember the shit you need to put in front of every C/C++ program (HREF/void.h or something; it's usually there automatically these days in some compilers, like Visual Studio).

xyzzy ,

C

<stdio.h>

int main() {

printf("Hello, world");

return 0;

}

C++

<iostream>

int main() {

std::cout << "Hello, world" << std::endl;

return 0;

}

diplodocus ,
@diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

The first time I tried another programming language, I was confused as to how to write code without using GOTO.

eestileib ,

I remember typing in BASIC programs from printed magazines. That's how I got my start.

Nougat ,

I bought a year's subscription to Timex Sinclair User, which folded like four months later.

veroxii ,

I recall my dad bought a book with VIC 20 games printed. And you bet I typed them all in. And then had to debug them.

It wasn't this one but it was very similar: https://archive.org/details/games-for-your-vic-20/page/28/mode/1up

And this book came with the computer and taught me how to code: https://archive.org/details/VIC-20_An_Introduction_to_BASIC_Part_1/mode/1up

Such fun memories. And now I'm CEO of a software company haha.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Same here! ZX spectrum.

floofloof ,

BBC BASIC was best BASIC. Fight me.

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

GPL BASIC. First language I learned when I was 5 in 1984.

10 PRINT “Hello world!”
20 END
SpaceNoodle ,

GPL as in the GPL? I thought that was first published in 1989

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

Oh, I guess I was just using Apple’s Intiger BASIC then!

thehatfox ,
@thehatfox@lemmy.world avatar

There is an open source implementation of BBC Basic for modern systems that’s being actively developed - BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0.

therealbabyshell ,

It is great with lots of libraries. I am writing a game in it right now.

wjrii ,

In a world with GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS, I simply cannot reject the QBASIC faith with which I was raised.

mindbleach ,

I was taught QBASIC at school... in 2003.

DoDDS is weird.

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