This continues my series into the past of many of us. Many of us learned programming by using the BASIC language. I school, I was forced to learn PASCAL, which was not of much use, other than understanding programming principles, which I already knew from BASIC. Learning F0RTRAN was the real step into the world of computing.
Anyway, this post is about BASIC on Chromebooks. I do own several of those. Not everyone of those is able to run Linux easily (there is always a way to force the hardware, one way or the other). This post is concerned with Chromebooks which can be easily set to run Linux applications.
To set any such Chromebook to do that, access "Settings" => "About ChromeOS" => "Linux Development Environment". If your Chromebook has that, install the Linux-thing. This might take a while.
Once your Chromebook has the virtual machine with (Debian) linux on board, you might start a (Linux) terminal and install "BWBASIC" by typing
sudo apt install bwbasic
in the terminal.
For the fun of it, I did install geany the same way. Now you can run your BASIC programs on a Chromebook in style.
I have not yet checked the use of the FreeBasic Compiler. I see no reason why this should not work.
Can I run Python/Thonny on my ChromeBook? Stay tuned!
