{"id":470,"date":"2017-07-08T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=470"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:58:10","slug":"the-basics-of-basic-the-programming-language-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"The basics of BASIC, the programming language of the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The 8-Bit Guy - YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Murray<\/a> (<em><a title=\"The 8-Bit Guy - YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 8-Bit Guy<\/a><\/em>) explains how <em>my generation<\/em>\u00a0got started in computers &#8212; <a title=\"What is BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/BASIC-Beginners-All-purpose-Symbolic-Instruction-Code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code<\/a>. For more information on <a title=\"What is BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/BASIC-Beginners-All-purpose-Symbolic-Instruction-Code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BASIC<\/a> go to (<tt>GOTO<\/tt>)\u00a0<a title=\"BASIC Programming - Wikibooks, open books for an open world\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/BASIC_Programming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikibooks<\/a>\u00a0for books and <a title=\"Calormen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calormen<\/a> (<a title=\"Applesoft BASIC in Javascript \" href=\"http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/jsbasic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JS Basic<\/a>, to run the <a href=\"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/files\/2017\/07\/Hello_Applesoft.pdf\">code below<\/a>).<\/p>\n<pre>10 REM <a title=\"Applesoft BASIC in Javascript \" href=\"http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/jsbasic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/jsbasic\/<\/a>\r\n20 INPUT \"What's your name?\"; name$\r\n30 PRINT \"Hello, \"; name$;\r\n40 INPUT \", how are you? (OK\/Not)\"; ok$\r\n50 IF ok$ = \"OK\" THEN PRINT \"Glad to hear that.\"\r\n60 IF ok$ &lt;&gt; \"OK\" THEN PRINT \"Too BAD!\"<\/pre>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/seM9SqTsRG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Murray (The 8-Bit Guy) explains how my generation\u00a0got started in computers &#8212; Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. For more information on BASIC go to (GOTO)\u00a0Wikibooks\u00a0for books and Calormen (JS Basic, to run the code below). 10 REM http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/jsbasic\/ 20 INPUT &#8220;What&#8217;s your name?&#8221;; name$ 30 PRINT &#8220;Hello, &#8220;; name$; 40 INPUT &#8220;, how are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"send_to_group_blog":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-programming","category-cuny","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}