When the IBM PC arrived in 1981, the culture of writing simple Basic programs extended to writing simple DOS batch files, to macros in Lotus 1-2-3, and eventually to VBA (Visual Basic for ...

BASIC running on this operating system allowed colleges, high schools, and individuals across the country to dial into mainframe computers and write programs using the language.

His programs were rife with programming techniques deeply tied to the TRS-80’s particular software and hardware, and in a quest for more speed than Microsoft BASIC was theoretically capable of ...

That said, I can't see anyone ever writing any stand-alone significant program in BASIC again. And, the very idea of someone writing a popular game in BASIC in 2024 is a joke.

Kids who were lucky or privileged enough (or both) to gain access to computers that ran BASIC—the VIC-20, the Commodore 64, janky Sinclair boxes in the UK—immediately started writing games ...

A.J. Boggs & Co., an East Lansing software developer, announced Monday that its lead consultant, Joseph Kunk, has been selected by Visual Studio Magazine as a columnist for their Visual Basic ...

Declarative Programming in TypeScript with Decorators. If you've used attributes in your C# or Visual Basic programs, then decorators in TypeScript are going to look very familiar to you. They're ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.

Visual Basic: Microsoft's Visual Basic (and its successor, Visual Basic .NET) tries to make programming easier with a graphical element that lets you change portions of a program by dragging and ...