AppleSoft BASIC

since 1977 (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1979)

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of BASIC supplied on the Apple II computer, superseding Integer BASIC. Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.

Applesoft was similar to (and indeed had a common code base with) BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines. While Applesoft was slower than Integer BASIC, it had many features that the older BASIC lacked including
atomic strings, string arrays, multidimensional arrays, float point variables, high-resolution graphics and user defined functions.

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brucehoult

vangale

petersod

yacitus

lawley

pydanny

kan

dabeaz

joemcmahon

empty

gsiegman

dfan

nriley

jtauber

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tlesher

dasil003

boutell

bittercoder

hexdump42

shawnr

bmaxwell

Zak

brettsky

eykd

cpharmston

Sitwonade

Sitwon

akgerber

brucehoult - 6 years

vangale - 1 years

petersod - 3 years

yacitus - 2 years

lawley - 45 years

pydanny - 6 years

kan - 3 years

dabeaz - 7 years

joemcmahon - 4 years

empty - 3 years

gsiegman - 4 years

dfan - 5 years

nriley - 42 years

jtauber - 5 years

David - 41 years

tlesher - 7 years

dasil003 - 4 years

boutell - 4 years

bittercoder - 3 years

hexdump42 - 2 years

shawnr - 4 years

bmaxwell - 36 years

Zak - 2 years

brettsky - 2 years

eykd - 6 years

cpharmston - 3 years

Sitwonade - 6 years

Sitwon - 6 years

akgerber - 25 years

petersod

1979–1981

brucehoult

1979–1984

Not my first language! Did FORTRAN and HP and TI programmable calculators first.

vangale

1979

Learned this on my Apple ][ but hated it which is why I moved to UCSD Pascal.

pydanny

1980–1985

My first programming language! I fell in love immediately and as a teenager I started writing games. My first game was 'free insults', followed by a Star Trek game that was popular in high school that I also redid in Python a few years back. The last game I wrote was an arcade effort that was a submarine versus destroyer contest that had my first attempt at 'artificial intelligence and used some pretty spiffy hi-resolution graphics.

yacitus

1980–1981

I played with it briefly after winning an Apple II+ in the first annual Alberta High School Computer Programming Competition. But I sold it after deciding I liked my Atari 800 more.

lawley

1980–

kan

1981–1983

dabeaz

1981–1987

Wrote programs on the family Apple ][+, later on an Apple 2e that I purchased.

joemcmahon

1982–1985

Played around with this a lot; dropped it after I finally got my hands on a Mac.

empty

1983–1985

My first computer that I bought myself. $2,000 that I earned programming CPM machines.

gsiegman

1983–1986

My first introduction to programming. I wrote my first program when I was 5.

nriley

1983–

dfan

1983–1987

jtauber

1984–1988

Was my main programming language from the age of 10 to 14. I remember the things I was most interested in writing were text adventures, 3D graphics and artificial intelligence.

David

1984–

tlesher

1984–1990

The summer after my fifth grade year my school got in a shipment of Apple IIe computers. Since they were going to sit idle until fall, they lent me one for the summer. Did a ton of Applesoft BASIC programming from then until I graduated from high school.

bittercoder

1985–1987

While at primary school in Warkworth, got my first introduction to writing simple programs in AppleSoft BASIC. More just wrote input of programs / tinkering - then understanding all the concepts like variable assignment etc. (I was only 5 at the time)

boutell

1985–1988

I never did fully grok what was happening with the hires color display and the way pixels chose to color themselves. I gather Woz did this to save a few (hundred) bucks, so it's okay.

dasil003

1985–1988

My earliest programming experience. I typed in many a program from magazines.

hexdump42

1985–1986

shawnr

1986–1989

Once I got into middle school we were able to get on the Apple II machines and do some simple programs.

Zak

1989–1990

More tinkering than actually programming.

bmaxwell

1989–

eykd

1991–1996

brettsky

1991–1992

Learned in summer school in 7th/8th grade and 8th/9th grade.

cpharmston

1994–1996

On an Apple ][e in 3rd-5th grade.

Sitwon

1994–1999

We started using the Apple IIc computers at school.

Sitwonade

1994–1999

We started using the Apple IIc computers at school.

akgerber

2000–

The neighbor gave me an Apple II+. I wrote programs, especially those resembling: 10 PRINT LOL 20 GOTO 10

zellyn

Aah. The Apple II. Or in my case, the CV-777 knockoff!

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