I remember some people i know learning programming using DarkBASIC which had a custom fullscreen IDE[0] very reminiscent of QBASIC, though unlike QBASIC it was

I remember some people i know learning programming using DarkBASIC which had a custom fullscreen IDE[0] very reminiscent of QBASIC, though unlike QBASIC it was focused on making games (especially 3D games). It provided out of the box commands for graphics, sound, music, etc (IIRC you could place and animate a 3D model with a couple of lines of code and the examples were simple 3D games[1]) and had integrated hypertext help that taught the basics of programming, among others[2]. Also had a CLI (inside the IDE) for quickly trying out stuff. It was later replaced by DarkBASIC Pro (which was eventually open sourced years later) but that one used a more traditional IDE that was kinda reminiscent of a simplified Visual C++ 2005 and had a more complex language. [0] https://i.imgur.com/UKZtMue.png https://i.imgur.com/UKZtMue.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/lslPht6.png https://i.imgur.com/lslPht6.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/TqrSzEe.png https://i.imgur.com/TqrSzEe.png