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Originally Posted by mtrawls

Well, basic comes in multiple flavors. There's PBASIC, wxBASIC, ... insert a billion more names, ... and QBASIC. My bet is that it is probably QBASIC, because that is Microsoft, and lots of people like/have Microsoft (for better or worse). (Actually, according to wikipedia there are pages full of dialects!)

The syntax will vary, but the programming is basically the same (no pun intended). The hard part about programming is the logic, i.e., thinking through a problem and coming up with a solution that is suitable to a computer, -- translating this into a computer language is simple. For a basic (read simple) tutorial, you might try here. As coincedence has it, I'm teaching QBASIC at a summer camp right now ... albeit to very little kids who lack typing skills and don't seem to find vector calculus obvious/intuitive (10 year olds mostly).

Is there just a BASIC?