GWBASIC a good start-easy to learn, portable executable program with graphics capability, and is a freeware.
–BASIC-acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
•designed as a language for beginners
•developed by John Kemeny and Kenneth Kurtz
•GWBASIC-version of BASIC produced by Microsoft,Inc.
Gwbasic,
Fortran and other higher level languages do essentially the same thing-they
interpret the program or souce code
we write into a language the machine can understand.
Gwbasic is a
program by itself.
It is an interpreter, that is, it translates our code line
by line to the computer while our program is running.
Gwbasic
screen; KEY OFF, KEY ON
•Coding
or writing a new program (NEW)
•Saving
a program (SAVE or F4 key)
•Loading
or recalling a program (LOAD or F3 key)
•Running
a program (RUN or F2 key)
•Ending
your computer session (SYSTEM)
•NEW
•SAVE
“filename”
•LOAD
“filename”
•RUN
“filename”
•SYSTEM
•Note:
close quotation optional. Extension name if not present is understood to be .BAS.
