Promitive as it was, QBasic had the right mix of commands people wanted (drawing, colors, music, file access), with the immediacy of running and seeing where yo

Promitive as it was, QBasic had the right mix of commands people wanted (drawing, colors, music, file access), with the immediacy of running and seeing where your errors were (stepping through code) to make many a beginner coder motivated enough to stay with it to learn and develop beyond. I'll always owe it a debt for being my outlet through my middle school years.