Have you ever programmed in BASIC?

[conmee]

I have great memories of learning TI-BASIC on my TI-99/4a. I wrote a simple Cold War era game that was based on War Games. Basically had to figure out the launch code to defend an impending Soviet attack. It was very simple and obviously not enough entertainment value to be printed in Byte or Compute magazine. But in my defense, I also used highly charged Cold War era epithets, "Better Dead than Red" and "Nuke the Commies!" with the Speech Synthesizer (think War Games but with Dr Strangelove vibes lol), which likely didn't help my efforts to get published.

After playing around with TI-BASIC (which used line numbers and wasn't very compatible with other variants), I moved on to TI's Editor/Assembler. The difference in speed was astounding to my teenage brain.

 

[BradleyinDC]

I took a BASIC class in high school in the 80s. I wrote a program to convert Fahrenheit to Celcius.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

My first computer interactions were teaching myself BASIC via Byte / Compute! /Antic magazines, then trying my luck on the TRS-80 Model III at the local Radio Shack on Saturday afternoons.

My parents got me a TI99-4/A which I eventually traded with a friend of mine for his Commodore 64.

 

[loopy123]

Back in the Apple II days I worked doing oceanographic data analysis at a university using FFT algorithms. We could submit jobs to a Cyber mainframe and wait 24 hours which sucked. So I wrote a BASIC FFT and ran it on the Apple II. Worked great!