An Introduction To QBASIC: A Programming Language

 An Introduction To QBASIC : A Programming Language (By Subhro Mukherjee)




Hi Friends! Welcome back to another new article  of this blog where I teach you about technology. In Today's Blog we are going to learn about a  very famous programming language for children/beginners which is  a version of BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language named QBASIC(Quick Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). this blog is basically for children/students of class V who are being just introduced with this Programming language. This blog also contains my YouTube Video with the same topic so that you can easily understand the Topic. Video is at the end of this article.


So in this article we will cover these topics :(as well as in the video)

  • What is BASIC and its origin
  • What is QBASIC and its origin
  • What are the features of QBASIC
  • What are the QBASIC Screens
  • How To Download and install QBASIC

1) BASIC and its origin:

BASIC is one of the simplest programming languages made for beginners/students. It was developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College, USA. 

The full form of BASIC is Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. as I told earlier, this language is best suited for beginners. 


2) QBASIC and its origin:

Though, there are many versions of BASIC such as GWBASIC, PBASIC and QBASIC. As I told you earlier we will learn QBASIC, i.e. Quick Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. QBASIC was developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the year 1975. It is a very user-friendly and one of the simplest programming language. It develops interest among beginners to learn a programming Language. 

3) Features of QBASIC:

Some Features of the QBASIC are:

  • It is User-friendly
  • The Syntax of the statements is very simple
  • It provides windows-based platform for writing programs
  • It is an interpreter based language
  • Debugging(removing errors) can be done easily
  • It does not requires require specifying  line numbers
  • It provides the facility to find errors in a program
  • It works with numeric as well as non-numeric data
  • It is Useful for Mathematical, scientific & engineering purposes as well
4) QBASIC Screens:

There are two different types of screens in a QBASIC Window:

  • Programming Screen:  for writing the programs
  • Output Screen: for showing the result/output of the program

Programming Screen


The Black Screen Is the Output Screen


5) Download and Install QBASIC:( For Windows Operating System)

To Download QBASIC Click Here and you will be redirected to the official downloading page of QBASIC . Based on your operating System , you can download it from there. Here I will tell you the windows OS procedure.

Based on your computer bit (32 or 64) you can download the 7z or .zip file (.zip recommended). then after it is downloaded right click on the file and click on extract the files. (to extract files you require winrar,  if you have it then alright and if not then Click Here to download winrar)  and after you have extracted the files go to the qb64 folder and open qb64.exe and then you can start your programming. For more Details watch this video:



I hope you liked todays blog..............today till this.. thankyou


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