Questions of or relating to any of the dialects of BASIC. Note that challenges that require the answers to be in a specific language are generally discouraged.
BASIC or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is the general name given to a family of general purpose programming languages that are designed to be readable and easy to learn.
The original version of BASIC was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964.
Some more modern dialects that belong to this family of languages and are used here at PPCG are, in no particular order, listed below.
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic .NET (both .NET Core and Mono)
- VBA or Visual Basic for Applications (including Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and Publisher Variants)
- MY-BASIC
- uBASIC
- Yabasic
- TI-BASIC
- Commodore BASIC
- BBC BASIC
- Chipmunk BASIC
- SmileBASIC
