BASIC is an acronymn which stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College. However, this language has developed over time and has had different versions of it created. Some of these well known versions of BASIC are BASIC-A, GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, TurboBasic, PowerBasic, etc.
Visual Basic
Since most programs are now developed in a Windows-based (Graphical) environment rather than a DOS-based (Text) environment a new version was created called Visual BASIC. Visual Basic develops applications that allow you to easily work with windows, graphics, toolbars, command buttons, etc. Programs created with Visual Basic (or other windows-based languages) are called GUIs. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface.
Liberty Basic
The language that we will be using in this class is Liberty BASIC. It was created in 1991 by Carl Gundel. The latest version 3.0 was released April 8th, 2002. Liberty BASIC has many of the standard BASIC features but also implements some more advanced features like Windows Programming. You can check out the latest information on Liberty Basic at the site below.
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