What is BASIC

[Argon88]

I'm wanting to take a web design class at CVCC and before I can take part two of the class I have to take a class called "Event-Driven BASIC." The problem is I don't have a clue what BASIC is, besides that it's a programing language. Could some give me the heads up before I make a fool of myself in class, please?

[muno]

This would be a good place to get a general idea about visual basic.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/
-M

//You are talking about IST 176/177, right?

[omalleytrading]

Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code. I'd bet most BASIC developers don't know that!

It's a simple programming language that was very popular in the early days of personal computers. It's use dropped steadily as C, and them C++ became dominant on the PC, but exploded onto the PC scene in the mid 90's when Microsoft introduced Visual Basic as it's flagship development lanugage.

These days it's tightly integrated into Visual Studio, and a popular choice for ASP and ASP.NET developers.

[Argon88]

Originally posted by muno
//You are talking about IST 176/177, right?

I have no idea.

One other question. Why would they want me to take that class before "Web Page Design part 2?"

[Argon88]

Wait a second, yes I do. Yes, it is IST 176 but part two is IST 276.

[Creosote]

Most colleges have an "Introductoary Programming" class. It is so one can grasp the concepts of programming before moving to more in-depth programming, db, and development courses.

The intro classes quite often focus on one language. For example, the college I went to used Java for the intro class. I think the college has now moved to Visual Basic. Some colleges no doubt use C/C++.

[qball]

Event-Driven BASIC

you'll have fun with the "event-driven" part.

your college course requirements are what they are, based in reality, or not.

One should learn fundamental programming concepts first, and move on from there. It's like crawl, then walk, then run...

[Argon88]

you'll have fun with the "event-driven" part.

How so? Your worrying me.

[qball]

Your worrying me.

Not really.

event driven programming, simply means, your program responds to given events.

BASIC is a programming language.

Event driven is using BASIC to create/interact in an event driven way.

Take the classes and learn, or not.

Think of it this way:

Creating a program that does something is easy (calc PI). Creating a prog that does something based upon events occuring, easy also, if you know how.

[edit]
helloworld.bas //not event driven
web server //event driven, events being request/response and all hops in between.
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[Argon88]

Well, now that I've taken my first class things make a bit more sense.

So Visual BASIC basicly (no pun intended) is only used for making apps that calculate things?