BASIC-256 is an easy BASIC language interpreter designed to assist center and high-school college students study the basics of programming.

The core of the language follows the standard BASIC type. Instructions are entered sequentially on numbered traces; For/ Subsequent and Do/ Till deal with your looping wants; there’s If/ Then/ Else for conditional testing, with GoSub and GoTo for circulation management (though you do get Features, too).

BASIC-256 is not just a few historical GW-BASIC clone, although. There’s the basic “OnError” command for error dealing with, however you additionally get the extra structured Attempt/ Catch/ EndTry. Start Case/ Case/ Finish Case constructions make for very readable conditional testing. Array parts might be assigned in a single line, like this:

dim z(5)
z = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

There are some surprisingly highly effective extras, too. BASIC-256 supplies a set of instructions to work with SQLite databases, for instance, processing a SQL assertion and returning the outcomes. You possibly can create packages to speak throughout your community, or the web. There’s even a easy (and protected) method of saving configuration knowledge to the Registry, and studying it later.

That is nonetheless only a easy BASIC interpreter. There is no help for objects, no skill to name exterior code, no type designer, no output choices past scrolling textual content and intensely primary graphics. It’s going to assist customers to study basic management constructions, however nothing extra.

BASIC-256 does provide sufficient performance to be helpful, although, as a really first programming language, whereas some bundled examples and on-line tutorials make it straightforward to study.

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Jim Reneau

Developer & Programming