Web Sites - History
There are a large number of web sites which provide information on QBasic, GW-BASIC,
and QuickBasic. All are useful sites for the QBasic programmer.
I've broken the sites into various categories, depending on the content
available at the site.
History/Overview
I find that learning the history of a language actually helps me to better
understand the language - it's design goals, its limitations, and the scope
of its features.
These sites discuss many useful aspects of the development of the BASIC family of
programming languages.
| BASIC
history, lengthy BASIC timeline, very few coding examples
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| Fact-Archive
history, appears to have been taken from here, but has added some original content
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| List of BASIC dialects
dialect summary, very long listing, with detail page on each dialect
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| List of BASIC dialects by platform
dialect summary, extensive listing of dialects by operating system
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| QBasic 1.1 and QuickBasic 4.5
overview, pros/cons, simple code example, downloads, programming tips
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| Microsoft BASIC version information
history, collection of information from various authors, description of each version, images of product packages, good read but not much value in actually using QBasic
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| Timeline: BASIC to Visual Basic .NET
history, include other industry milestones to put QBasic development into context
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| BASIC Compilers
dialect summary, BASIC languages that come with compilers
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| BASIC History
history, minimal content but a good read
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| Differences Between GW-BASIC and QBasic
dialect comparison, useful only as historical record
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| free basic compilers
dialect summary, BASIC languages that come with compilers
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| QuickBASIC
history, good summary, but minimal content, not-QBasic specific
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| What is QuickBasic?
overview of QuickBasic, puts QBasic into perspective
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| Microsoft QuickBASIC
history, good summary, but minimal content
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| QBasic - Answers.com
history, good summary, but minimal content
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| QuickBASIC - Answers.com
history, good summary, but minimal content and QuickBASIC-specific
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| BASIC - Answers.com
taken from here
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Programming Language Overview
These links discuss programming in general - languages, what they consist of, and how they compare to
one another. QBasic programmers will benefit from reading these sites.
I welcome suggestions for additions to this list.
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