BASIC

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1964
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BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.

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Works Developed in this Platform:

Work title Author Language Year
Aforismos (Série B) Pedro Barbosa Portuguese 1984
Aforismos (Série C) Pedro Barbosa Portuguese 1988
All wrongs reversed ©1982 JODI English 2004
Computer Poetry Silvestre Pestana Portuguese 1981
Conjecturas da Água Antero de Alda Portuguese 1986
Endemic Battle Collage Geof Huth English 1986
First Screening: Computer Poems Barrie Phillip Nichol English 1984
Haikai Tim Hartnell English 1983
Here Comes Her Man Logan K. Young English 2020
its name was Penelope Judy Malloy English 1989
La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs Chine Lanzmann French 1986
Luisances pour une Gisberce Y. J. Brette French
Máquinas Pensantes: Aforismos Gerados por Computador Pedro Barbosa Portuguese 1988
Oceanografias (A Memória da Água) Antero de Alda Portuguese 2016
Poem 21 Amilcar Romero Spanish (Castilian) 1988
RACTER William Chamberlain, Thomas Etter English 1983
Re-textualizações (Série A) Pedro Barbosa Portuguese 1988
The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed Racter, William Chamberlain English 1984
Uncle Roger Judy Malloy English 1986
Universo João Coelho Portuguese 1985

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Critical Writing Developed in this Platform:

Work title Author Language Year
'Computer Poetry' by Silvestre Pestana Álvaro Seiça English 2015
'Máquinas Pensantes' by Pedro Barbosa Álvaro Seiça English 2015
A Ciberliteratura: Criação Literária e Computador Pedro Barbosa Portuguese 1996
Becoming Digital J. R. Carpenter English 2015
Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media Maria Engberg English 2007
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Castilian) 2016
Exploring Artificial Intelligence on Your Spectrum + and Spectrum Tim Hartnell English 1984
Toward. Some. Air. English 2015

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In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn.

Versions of BASIC became widespread on microcomputers in the mid-1970s and 1980s. Microcomputers usually shipped with BASIC, often in the machine's firmware. Having an easy-to-learn language on these early personal computers allowed small business owners, professionals, hobbyists, and consultants to develop custom software on computers they could afford.

BASIC remains popular in many dialects and in new languages influenced by BASIC, such as Microsoft's Visual Basic. In 2006, 59% of developers for the .NET Framework used Visual Basic .NET as their only programming language.

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Learning BASIC Programming: Lesson 1

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