BASIC256(1)

💖 BASIC256 — the manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so you opened the manual for BASIC256(1) and honestly? iconic decision. this is the page for BASIC256, and we're gonna walk through it together, no cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

BASIC256 — an educational BASIC programming environment for children. it's literally a whole lil world where kids learn to code. 🧚

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

basic256

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run it. no flags, no drama, no arguments. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basic256 is an easy to use version of BASIC that's designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. like, it's giving "first ever line of code" energy and we love that for them. 💜

features include: 👑

• traditional control structures like gosub, for/next and goto — yes bestie, the classics, they ate and left no crumbs
• built-in graphics and text mode 🎨
• a set of detailed, easy-to-follow tutorials 📚
• ... and more 🌈

not me being emotionally attached to a for/next loop. anyway.

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🌐 WEBPAGE 🌐

the basic256 website and tutorials can be found at http://www.basic256.org/ — go look, the tutorials are lowkey the whole point. 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

basic256 was written by Ian Larson <drblast@users.sourceforge.net>, Tony Dann <supertony007@googlemail.com>, Ferry Hendrikx <ferry.hendrikx@gmail.com> and Jim M. Reneau <renejm@users.sourceforge.net>. absolute legends, all four of them. 🫶

this manual page was written by Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca@kubuntu.org>, for the Debian and Ubuntu projects (but may be used by others). so generous of him fr fr. 💖

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and that's the whole page!! shoutout to Ryan Kavanagh, who wrote this manual page back on August 13, 2010, and to the BASIC256(1) manual itself — that's the source and the date, bestie, we're keeping the receipts. 🎀✨ bye now, go write a gosub 💅