what is qbasic?

Answer 1

The grandfather of today's Visual Basic programming language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qbasic

Answer 2

Here are some points that i could find about qbasic.

1. An interpreter for the BASIC programming language provided by Microsoft with the DOS and Windows 95 operating systems. The QBASIC interpreter supports many of the more sophisticated features of the BASIC language and replaces GW-BASIC.

2. A DOS based programming language. QBasic is a BASIC language interpreter for DOS. You won't find it on win95 systems, but it exists in D:\other\oldmsdos on the WIN95 SETUP cd. [3: Rated as excellent - qbasic.com ]; [3: The Basic Archives ]; [3: Jeremey's QBasic Page ];

3. QBasic (a name derived from QuickBASIC, BASIC being an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a variant of the BASIC programming language. The source code is compiled to an intermediate form within the integrated development environment (IDE), and this intermediate form is immediately interpreted on demand within the IDE.

It was intended as a replacement for GW-BASIC, and was shipped together with MS-DOS 5.0 and higher, including Windows 95. QBasic was based on the earlier QuickBASIC 4.5 compiler but without QuickBASIC's compiler and linker elements.

Microsoft stopped shipping QBasic with later versions of Windows. Windows 98 users, however, will find it in the \TOOLS\OLDMSDOS directory of the CD-ROM; on the Windows 95 CD-ROM, it is in the \OTHER\OLDMSDOS directory. It is now only available from Microsoft's website for licensed users of MS-DOS. For its time, QBasic provided a state-of-the-art IDE , including a debugger with features such as on-the-fly expression evaluation and code modification that were still relatively unusual more than ten years later.

QBasic is also the subject of several programming books for beginners.

QBasic is able to be run natively under nearly all versions of DOS and of Windows, and by using the free DOSBox emulator, it can run on platforms such as Linux and FreeBSD.

QBasic came complete with a couple of pre-written example programs. These were Nibbles (a variant of the Snake game), Gorilla, an explosive-banana throwing game derived from Artillery Game first produced on the Tektronix 4051 and later HP 2640 HP 2647 and RemLine, a GW-BASIC code line number removing program.

Answer 3

QBASIC was Micro$oft's version of the BASIC programming environment and language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

Answer 4

The grandfather of today's Visual Basic programming language.

Answer 5

A crappy language ideal for beginners. Can make MS-DOS exe's (only version 4.5)

Version 4.5 download:
http://www.qbasic.com/wbb/filebase_entry.php?entryid=6&sid=870ce9c3365d902d75d3e4fec2c99853

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic

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