[thrower123]

QBasic's loss should be deeply mourned. Say what you will about it, it was almost the perfect beginner's environment. Simple, english-like syntax, good built-in documentation, support for graphics and sound right out of the box, and an IDE with a debugger.

[paulryanrogers]

Got QBasic in the 90's from a parent and bounced right off. Klick'n Play however consumed many hours. Or even batch files, if it meant I could get those Origin Systems games to run.

[nickpsecurity]

I got started with QBasic IDE. FreeBASIC was a nice replacement on the language/compiler side of things. I don't know if there's comparable IDE's. I found but haven't tried FBIDE.

https://www.freebasic.net/

http://www.fbide.freebasic.net/

[yumaikas]

> good built-in documentation

As someone who was a beginner in QBasic, the docs left a _lot_ to be desired, especially the graphics ones. As a teenager, I had a hard time make heads or tails of them.

Granted, that isn't to say I wouldn't be able to navigate them pretty well today, but I distinctly remember struggling to understand large parts of QBasic back in the day