(Abbreviation for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. A very popular programming language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the 1960's. Their have been a number of implementations of basic over the years including :-
Tiny Basic
Microsoft Basic
CBasic
Integer Basic
Applesoft Basic
GW Basic
Turbo Basic
Microsoft QuickBasic
Historically, basic has been the programming language with which most people have got their first experience of programming.