BASIC Definition

BASIC, also known as Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — a programming language regarded as being high-level with overarching purpose of ease of use. Originally developed in 1963 at Dartmouth College by professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, it’s aiming to help beginners get started with code.

The BASIC language introduces simple enough syntaxes and user-friendly commands which ultimately revolutionized complex programming making it popular with masses. At the core mechanism of BASIC are systems allowing programmers to input individual lines of code to be then translated into real-time executing machine code.