The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Small Basic is a recent offering from Microsoft based on the venerable BASIC programming language and implemented with .NET.

Can you believe it? The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month.

It’s also a great way to get familiar with homebrew computing and the BASIC programming language!