If for some odd reason you’re both technically knowledgeable enough to use Linux, yet still want to learn how to program, you can download a free BASIC interpreter, YABASIC (which stands for Yet Another BASIC), by visiting www. yabasic.de.

Why Learn Liberty BASIC?

If you’re interested in learning to program, you may wonder, “Why not jump right in and start learning C++ or Java?” (Then again, if you want to learn how to swim, why not jump right into the ocean and start swimming with the sharks?) Although you can start learning to program by using any language, Liberty BASIC offers several advantages that you won’t find in other language compilers.

Liberty BASIC is (almost) free

Liberty BASIC is a shareware program that you can evaluate for free until you decide whether it’s worth paying for. That way, you can experiment with computer programming without spending any money buying programs, such as Visual C++ or JBuilder only to realize they may be too complicated and confusing for you.

Liberty BASIC is easy

Liberty BASIC can teach you the fundamentals of programming so that you can get real-life experience programming your own computer. Other programming languages, such as C++ or Java, can force you to master needlessly complicated topics, such as pointers, object-orientation, and memory allocation. Rather than let these other programming languages bury you under an additional layer of complexity that only gets in your way, learn Liberty BASIC.

Best of all, the BASIC programming language was specially designed to teach novices how to program, so learning BASIC can teach you how programming works. Once you learn the fundamentals of programming with Liberty BASIC, you can apply your programming knowledge to help you better learn another programming language, such as C++ or Java.

Liberty BASIC runs on Windows

When computers used to run the ancient operating system of MS-DOS, Microsoft tossed in a free BASIC interpreter called QBASIC. Although you can