What does Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code mean?

Answer 1

Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code is a programming language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in the mid-1960s at Dartmouth College, commonly called by its acronym, BASIC.

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Answer 2

You are probably referring to "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" or BASIC, a computer programming language developed at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1964 to help teach students the FORTRAN programming language without needing to teach the cryptic and confusing syntax of FORTRAN's FORMAT statement (which was borrowed from that used by an I/O formatting subroutine that originally used on the IBM 704 vacuum tube computer). After the students learned BASIC, teaching them how to code FORMAT statements and a few minor differences between BASIC and FORTRAN (e.g. FOR/DO loops) syntax became much easier than starting the students immediately with FORTRAN from the beginning (as other colleges of the time were doing).

But many students found they prefered BASIC and began developing their own versions and BASIC became common on minicomputers. BASIC also became the main high level language on early microcomputers (e.g. Palo Alto Tiny Basic in 1976 occupied just 1.77 kilobytes of RAM).

Answer 3

The BASIC language is too complex for a WikiAnswers question and answer.

Answer 4

Primarily to teach new programmers how to write algorithms.