BASIC PROGRAMMING FOR JSS2
BASIC PROGRAMMING FOR JSS2 Origin of and Features of BASIC BASIC stands for Beginner’s All-purposed Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed in 1960 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz to teach students at Dartmouth College. It has undergone series of historical development, which has resulted in several forms of the language. BASIC is now in form of VB.NET (Visual Basic.Net). The majority of BASIC languages use program translators called interpreters to allow the computer understand and obey the BASIC statements in the computer program. Examples of such interpreters are: 1. BASICA 2. GwBASIC 3. Turbo BASIC 4. Quick BASIC BASIC Character Set 1. Alphabetic Characters – A to Z 2. Numeric Character – 0 to 9 3. Special Characters – 0 + % ^ # = ( ) etc. BASIC Arithmetic Expressions BASIC symbols used to perform arithmetic operations are: Operation BASIC Symbol Addition + Subtraction - Multiplication * Division / Exponentiation ^ Every arithmetic expression must appear on a single line. There