Basic is a programming language equivalent of cuneiform and not suitable for teaching coding in 2011. Report comment. Reply. geogray43 says: August 27, 2013 at 9:43 pm Oh dear lord.

As with any BASIC program, it starts at the first line which here is 10. It defines a few variables here, before jumping to line 100 (using GOTO).

3DS owners who download the software and understand BASIC will be able to program pretty much anything they can think of within the confines of the application.

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