QBasic

since 1991 (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1986)

Like QuickBASIC, but unlike earlier versions of Microsoft BASIC, QBasic is a structured programming language, supporting constructs such as subroutines and while loops. Line numbers, a concept often associated with BASIC, are supported for compatibility, but are not considered good form, having been replaced by descriptive line labels. QBasic has limited support for user-defined data types (structures), and several primitive types used to contain strings of text or numeric data.

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deep

abtin

shiny

Vector

jorjun

bmaxwell

sarahewelch

zellyn

boutell

Ben

beaugunderson

enki

greyfade

BenMcNelly

jefftriplett

mdridley

carljm

stephen_mcd

gsiegman

mattimck

luchak

sfaruque

bocke

ntoll

Sitwonade

daniellindsley

johnny723

Sitwon

mfandreas

barneyboo

ShawnMilo

cstejerean

sbastn

sbaydoun

soryu2

kcunning

bkonkle

joalcorn

xxv

ghoseb

MattBowen

kratorius

jmillikin

lambacck

givas

noah

mallipeddi

dmnd

devien

larry

natevw

mouseroot

anoop

banterability

bittercoder

quakehead

Junafani

bkopanja

Matt

robbles

Kanru

bkokash

beshrkayali

edv4rd0

Rgoodermote

Raisapius

ssbr

deep - 8 years

abtin - 1 years

shiny - 27 years

Vector - 3 years

jorjun - 5 years

bmaxwell - 25 years

sarahewelch - 7 years

zellyn - 4 years

boutell - 4 years

Ben - 9 years

beaugunderson - 10 years

enki - 3 years

gg - 3 years

greyfade - 7 years

BenMcNelly - 5 years

jefftriplett - 4 years

mdridley - 4 years

carljm - 5 years

stephen_mcd - 2 years

gsiegman - 6 years

mattimck - 3 years

luchak - 3 years

sfaruque - 5 years

bocke - 4 years

ntoll - 1 years

Sitwonade - 7 years

daniellindsley - 6 years

johnny723 - 3 years

Sitwon - 7 years

mfandreas - 2 years

barneyboo - 7 years

ShawnMilo - 2 years

cstejerean - 3 years

sbastn - 4 years

sbaydoun - 4 years

soryu2 - 2 years

kcunning - 5 years

bkonkle - 6 years

joalcorn - 3 years

xxv - 3 years

ghoseb - 2 years

MattBowen - 3 years

kratorius - 4 years

jmillikin - 6 years

lambacck - 3 years

givas - 1 years

noah - 4 years

mallipeddi - 1 years

dmnd - 2 years

devien - 2 years

larry - 17 years

natevw - 6 years

mouseroot - 17 years

anoop - 4 years

banterability - 3 years

bittercoder - 3 years

quakehead - 1 years

Junafani - 4 years

bkopanja - 2 years

Matt - 2 years

robbles - 2 years

Kanru - 14 years

bkokash - 5 years

beshrkayali - 2 years

edv4rd0 - 2 years

Rgoodermote - 3 years

Raisapius - 2 years

ssbr - 1 years

1986–1993

1986

1987–

1988–1992

Qedit was the editor, I believe. Not a bad editor for DOS...

Vector

1988–1990

Fascination with the world of programming started with a Commodore 64 and this fun language.

zellyn

1989–1992

On friends' computers.

boutell

1989–1992

(QuickBASIC, mostly) Educational software development with the University of Delaware instructional technology folks. And lots of BBS nonsense.

1989–

1989–1995

1990–1998

1990–1992

The years are very much an estimate. QBasic was my first exposure to a programming language, as I had to open the code in order to run "Snake" and "Gorillas" on my father's 286. My first programming stemmed from trying to understand, and then modify snake: I thought it improper that the head was indistinguishable from the tail.

beaugunderson

1990–1999

jefftriplett

1991–1994

I attempted to make many video games on my 386.

greyfade

1991–1997

Got a shiny new 386 with DOS, and QBasic was the only thing it had that I knew of that let me write little toy programs. I miss Gorillas.BAS.

BenMcNelly

1991–1995

Ah yes, hacking gorillas and nibbles and trying to make games on my dads 386, my dad even payed a college student $100 hour to come teach me programming on Saturdays during one summer.

stephen_mcd

1992–1993

My earliest memory of coding - sprite animations on a 486

mattimck

1992–1994

carljm

1992–1996

We hacked Nibbles like crazy; added stuff like wormholes/teleporters, moving/blinking walls, random debris falling from the sky... fun times.

1992–1997

1992–1995

1992–1994

1992–1996

Accidentally discovered this language. The GOTO command will always be remembered.

ntoll

1993

Hacked together a silly little script on the *only* available PC at the Royal College of Music. I must've been the only person to use the machine for stuff other than fighting with crappy wordprocessing.

johnny723

1993–1995

That's the computer language we used in HKCEE exam.

Sitwon

1993–1999

Got my first computer. Windows 3.1.

mfandreas

1993–1994

daniellindsley

1993–1998

Sitwonade

1993–1999

Got my first computer. Windows 3.1.

bocke

1993–1996

bkonkle

1994–1999

I got books from the library on programming text adventures when I was 12, and QBASIC was my playground.

sbastn

1994–1997

Used to do crazy animations and infinite loops on this. Was fun to draw with. Got me hooked into programming

kcunning

1994–1998

barneyboo

1994–2000

Armed with my book on Structured BASIC (the contents of which could be reduced to 'Don't GOTO') I thought I was going to change the world from my 75Mhz P1. I did not.

soryu2

1994–1995

This is where I started. Taught myself some Basic before learning Pascal in school.

sbaydoun

1994–1997

The first language I used and experienced the creativity in programming.

ShawnMilo

1994–1995

Played with QBasic on a friend's computer, and eventually used it at home. The only thing I remember implementing in it was a pretty "screensaver" that printed randomly-colored asterisks in random positions, then deleted them individually.

1994–1996

1995–1998

1995–1997

1995–2000

Self-taught during elementary school. Even relatively simple things like changing the font color were hours-long exercises in discovery; It was lots of fun, even though my programs never progressed much beyond the "what's your name?" stage.

ghoseb

1995–1996

MattBowen

1995–1997

QBasic shipped with DOS 6.1 and I spent a lot of middle school fooling with it. We wrote a ton of games a lots of little utilities until finally moving on to C.

xxv

1995–1997

joalcorn

1995–1997

givas

1996

My first contact with programming languages.

natevw

1997–2002

Mostly just played Nibbles and Gorrilla Wars, but did make/start some more useful apps on 286–486 DOS machines.

devien

1997–1998

my first venture into programming. not much more than hello world with funky text colours, but then again i was only 10

dmnd

1997–1998

mallipeddi

1997

I don't even recollect exactly what I did with QBASIC. I remember writing a lot of simple programs to calculate stuff from my math textbooks and double-checking my math homework using the computer. Unusually I learnt C first and then stumbled on BASIC. Hardware - I'd a second-hand AST Pentium 386 laptop which someone loaned to me. It had Windows 3.1 on it.

noah

1997–2000

larry

1997–

mouseroot

1997–

When i was really getting into dos programming

bittercoder

1998–2000

QBasic I adopted immediately after GWBasic - I wrote a number of different games and programs in this language before moving on to Turbo C++.

anoop

1998–2001