BASIC, which is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, high level language that stresses ease of use. It was developed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz with a goal to create a programming language that anyone could use. Although BASIC is no longer widely used as it once was, it is still a popular programming language used on personal computers and microcontrollers.

## BASIC Resources at Wikiversity[edit | edit source]

* FreeBASIC
* QuickBASIC
* Visual Basic
* Visual Basic .NET

## See Also[edit | edit source]

* Wikipedia: BASIC
* Wikipedia: Dartmouth BASIC
* Wikipedia: List of BASIC dialects