BASIC: A Computer Programming Language

Computer programming has its own language, and that’s just the beginning of the software adventure. There are many different languages in computer programming, and all of them have their own purposes. In order to understand the importance of computer programming languages, knowing them, and tweaking them, one has to understand the importance of computer programming.

Computer programming produces software packages, among other things, to meet our needs. We may need software for accounting, making photos bigger or smaller, or editing our home videos. Behind all these software packages are the computer programmers who use their individual languages in order to create the software.

One such computer programming language is the Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC. BASIC is actually composed of many different kinds of programming languages that are actually higher level than most other languages. This BASIC family of computer programming languages was first designed in the 1960’s, and was originally made for non-science people to gain better access to computers. During that time, using a computer required that a person write customized software, a task that only mathematicians and scientists were equipped to do. The BASIC language was therefore a bridge for people of other professions to take advantage of the power of computers.

When the 1970’s came, the BASIC language, whether in its original form or a variant of it, spread onto microcomputers; and by the 1980’s, even home computers could be run in BASIC. Today, BASIC remains popular, as it serves as the basis for many of the more modern programming languages that have been developed in the wake of advanced operating systems and the Internet.

Also Read: Learning C ++ Programming Language For Beginners

When it was originally conceived, BASIC was meant for beginners: it was a language that people could use easily, whether or not they were educated in mathematics and the sciences. The language also had to be a general purpose one, in that it had to serve many different needs, and not only those that mathematicians and scientists required. The root language of BASIC also had to allow for advanced features to be plugged on as experts grew more and more adept in it, and as the language found further use in many other fields.

BASIC was also meant to be interactive, and was designed to show error messages that were clear and friendly; that is, these error messages had to completely explain what the problem was, which would hopefully allow the user to fix it faster and easier.

When it was first released, moreover, BASIC was free of charge, which allowed the language to spread much faster. Once the language spread much faster, it was also easy to modify it and correct errors. BASIC was also distributed to a few high schools in order to promote it faster. Thanks to this widespread use of the language, BASIC was soon implemented on several microcomputers, and by several software manufacturers.

Despite its success, BASIC has had its dissenters. For instance, some programmers find that its scripts do not show proper programming practices, and the language itself is too slow, or sometimes even too simple. Despite all these, however, BASIC has continued to thrive, succeed, and evolve, and has thus become a good tool to introduce beginner programmers to the concept of coding and computer programming.

These are only a few facts about the BASIC language. For more information on BASIC, read and do your own research through several key pages online, or using computer programming books.

What Is The C++ Programming Language

C++ is a computer programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup, which is a development of the C language developed at Bell Labs (Dennis Ritchie) in the early 1970's, the language was derived from the previous language, namely B.

In the beginning, the language was designed as a programming language run on Unix systems. In its development, the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) version of the C programming language became the dominant version, although these versions are now seldom used in system and network development as well as for embedded systems. Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs first developed C++ in the early 1980's. To support features in C++, built-in efficiency and support systems for low level coding.

in C++ added new concepts such as classes with properties such as inheritance and overloading. One of the most fundamental differences with the C language is the support of object-oriented programming.

Standardization
Year     C++ Standard                Informal Name
2011   ISO/IEC 14882:2011           C++ 11
2007   ISO/IEC TR 19768:2007    C + + TR1
2003   ISO/IEC 14882:2003          C++ 03
1998   ISO/IEC 14882:1998          C++ 98

In 1998, the C++ Standard Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 Working Group) issued an ISO/IEC 14882:1998 International Standard which was used for several years. In the year 2003 was released the corrected version, ISO/IEC 14882:2003. In the year 2005, a technical report called "Library Technical Report 1" (often known as TR1) was released. The latest revision of the C++ standard is C + 11 (formerly known as C++ 0x) has been approved by ISO/IEC on August 12, 2011 and has been published as 14882:11.

C++ Program Examples

Example of a simple C++ program for Hello World using the C++ Basic library can be seen below:
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#include < iostream >
using namespace Std;
int main ()
{
cout < < "Hello World" < < Endl;
return 0;
}

Description

First line:
#include < iostream. h >
As part of the compiler process, the compiler of C++ runs a program called preprocessor pre-processor having the ability to add and remove code from the source. In #include section tells the preprocessor to include the code of the iostream, the iostream file contains declarations for the various functions required by the software, or the classes required.

Second row:
int main ()
This statement declares a primary function, that a C++ program can contain many functions, which should always have a main function. Functions are modules that contain codes to solve certain problems. The word Void indicates an unqualified play function.

Third row:
{
Opening curly brackets signify the start of the program.
Fourth row:
STD:: cout < < "Hello world\n";
Cout is an object of the standard C++ software library used to print strings to a standard output device, which is usually a computer screen, the compiler connects the code from that standard software library with code that has been written to get the executable result. Sign
\n
is a modifier format used to switch rows after displaying the string, if there are other cout in the program, then the accompanying string will be written on the bottom row. Fifth row:
}

Closing curly brackets signify the end of the program.
Basic data types [
To store a required variable a specific place in the computer's memory. The large and type of variables inside the standard C++ program are specified as follows. 10
Name of range size description
Char alphabets/characters or for small integers 1 byte signed:-128 to 127
Unsigned: 0 to 255
short int (short) integers with short range 2 bytes signed:-32768 to 32767
Unsigned: 0 to 65535
int integers 4 bytes Signed:-2147483648 to 2147483647
Unsigned: 0 to 4294967295
long int (long) Integer with a length range of 4 bytes signed:-2147483648 to 2147483647
Unsigned: 0 to 4294967295
Boolean bool, can be either true or false, I byte true or False
Float number with floating point (number of Numbers) 4 bytes 3.4 E +/-38 (7 digits)
Double numbers with double accuracy 8 bytes 1.7 E +/-308 (15 digits)
Long double number of numbers with double accuracy length 8 bytes 1.7 E +/-308 (15 digits)
wchar_t character width, commonly used for Unicode characters 2 bytes 1 character wide

Advantages and disadvantages of C++ programming languages

Excess C++ programming Languages:
Available in almost all types of computers,
Faster C++ execution Process,
A little keyword, just around 48 keywords,
Flexible and also portable for all types of computers,
Middle Level language,
The language is structured, and includes object-oriented programming (OOP) programming languages,
Code that is reuseable (reusable) on other projects, of course with libraries and header files,
Can create a high quality graphic processor application,
function and class library support so that it can be used for macro application creation,
Languages that already have an ANSI standard that can be used across multiple platforms.

Disadvantages of C++ programming languages:
For beginners are usually hard to use pointers,
Case sensitive, which is different in the use of uppercase and lowercase letters,
Make programming with C++ language difficult,
The C++ implementation is very slight,
Many operators as well as flexibility in writing programs that confuse beginners.
Differences between C and C++ programming languages

As I've previously alluded to, where C++ itself is a derived language that has been refined from the C language.

The differences from the C and C++ languages are as follows:
The discoverer of C language is Bell Telephone while C++ is Bjarne Stroustrup,
C++ 's scope is larger, so C++ itself can run C language while the C language cannot run C++,
The C language is included in the procedural programming language while C++ includes OOP (object-oriented programming) programming,
The difference in data viewing, for the C language, data belongs to separate and free entities such as procedures and functions. As for C++ as described above.

C++ language supports polymorphism, Inheritance and encapsulation, while the C language does not.
The difference in data manipulation by outside code, the C++ language supports private/protected information, while the C language does.

C++ language supports operator overloading, structured functions, variable referrals, virtual functions, while C language is not.
And other is in some respects such as: Standard template libraries, exception handling, type data, and writing.

C++ compiler
Dev C++
Code Blocks
Acorn C/C++
Borland C++
C++/CX
C++ Builder
Cfront
Clang
CodeWarrior
Comeau C/C++
ConceptGCC
Digital Mars
GNU Compiler Collection
HP aC + +
IBM XL C++
Intel C++ Compiler
MinGW
Norcroft C Compiler
Open64
Oracle Solaris Studio
PathScale
The Portland Group
ROSE (Compiler Framework)
Shed Skin
The Softune
TenDRA Compiler
THINK C
Turbo C++
Visual C++
IBM VisualAge
Watcom C/C++ Compiler
Zortech

C++ family of programming languages
Algorithmic skeleton
C++/CLI
C++/CX
Charm + +
Embedded C++
Felix (programming language)
Intel Array Building Blocks
Intel Parallel Studio
Managed Extensions for C++
R + +
Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System
Threading Building Blocks
ΜC + +