FreeBASIC is a high-level programming language supporting procedural, object-orientated and meta-programming paradigms, with a syntax compatible to Microsoft QuickBASIC.

BASIC compatibility FreeBASIC is not a "new" BASIC language. You don't need to learn much new if you are familiar with any Microsoft-BASIC variant. You can use either "-lang qb" for compatibility, or …

Installing Installing FreeBASIC, any additionally needed packages, and perhaps a text editor or IDE.

New to Programming? If you're new to programming in general, you should probably learn what some basic concepts are: How Your Program Is Run What a Compiler Is Syntax Program Flow Variables …

Language Documentation: Keywords and language features explained. Compiler Reference: How to invoke the compiler. Programmer's Guide & Tutorials: How to write programs in FreeBASIC.

Introduction by Lachie Dazdarian The objective of this series of lessons is to help newbies who know very little of BASIC to learn the basics of programming in FreeBASIC necessary to create any …

Microsoft QuickBASIC (often shortened, correctly, to QB, or incorrectly, to "QBasic", which is a different system) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft …

Aside from having a syntax mostly compatible with QuickBASIC, FreeBASIC introduces several new features to the aged language, including pointers to variables and functions, and unsigned data types.

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Introduction to Message-Based Programming Written by rdc Historically, programming languages have been categorized as procedural and message-based. For example, QuickBasic could be categorized …