Visual Basic

Visual Basic

A Brief History of Basic

Language developed in early 1960's at Dartmouth College:

B (Beginner's)

A (All-Purpose)

S (Symbolic)

I (Instruction)

C (Code)

·  Answer to complicated programming languages (FORTRAN, Algol, Cobol ...).

First timeshare language.

·  In the mid-1970's, two college students write first Basic for a microcomputer

(Altair) - cost $350 on cassette tape. You may have heard of them: Bill Gates

and Paul Allen!

·  Every Basic since then essentially based on that early version. Examples include:

GW-Basic, QBasic, QuickBasic.

·  Visual Basic was introduced in 1991.

So, have fun with Visual Basic........................

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