Learn BASIC now
by Michael Halvorson · first published 1989
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…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC#Origin_and_develo... My first encounter with a real Microsoft BASIC wasn't for another 15 years; the interpreter-only QBASIC that came with Halvorson & Rygmyr's Learn BASIC Now, which was a great book I gave away and now feel the urge to repurchase for nostalgia's sake. I used it for my GCSE Computer Science project.
on “Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code” ↗Similar for me but maybe on a 386; used this 1989 book which had its own version of quickbasic called qbi since qbasic only got added to ms-dos in 1991. https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Basic-Now-Mike-Halvorson/dp/155...
on “Ask HN: How did you learn to code?” ↗