30 years later, QBasic is still the best

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by _wmd on Saturday May 26, 2018 @06:07PM (#17164500)

+10000000 on the help system alone. Those people deserve a prize for making so many first time programming experiences so accessible. I read the QB help back to front as a kid

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by donatj on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:15AM (#17165411)

Reading the QBasic help is literally how I learned to program. I owe it my livelihood.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by ygra on Sunday May 27, 2018 @05:44AM (#17166232)

I started out by reading the GWBASIC manual, a 500-page tome I found in our bookshelf at home. Then I asked my father whether he could get me GWBASIC and noted that he'd have something better, QBasic, which had integrated help. It was so much better and always just a keystroke away.

Turbo Pascal was also an awesome development experience back then.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by abrkn on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:17AM (#17165419)

The help system was amazing even for someone who could barely read English at the time.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by ino on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:13AM (#17166762)

It helped me learn english and programming at the same time.

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Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best by ahtu123 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:15AM (#17179329)

I probably spent months playing with just the graphics programming tutorials. Copy-paste some of the tutorial code and slowly start changing things. I didn't speak English very well but somehow those tutorials were still helpful.

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