Visual basic evolved from BASIC(Beginners' All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code). The BASIC language was created
by Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth
College in the mid 1960s(Deitel&Deitel, 1999) . It is a
carefully constructed English-Like language basically used
by the programmers to write simple computer programs. It
served the purpose of educating laymen like we all the
basic concepts of programming. From then on many versions
of BASIC were developed to accommodate different computer
platforms. Some of the versions are Microsoft QBASIC,
QUICKBASIC, GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA, Apple BASIC and etc. Apple
BASIC was developed by Steve Wozniak, a former employee of
Hewlett-Packard and a good friend of steve Jobs(the founded
of Apple Inc.). Steve Jobs had worked with Wozniak in the
past (together they designed the arcade game "Breakout" for
Atari).They pooled their financial resources together to
have PC boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they officially
formed the Apple Computer Company.
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