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+====== Introduction ======
+FreeBASIC is a modern, and powerful dialect of the Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC, family of programming languages.
+The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn. Since then, BASIC has been available for a variety of computers ranging from mainframes to calculators, and personal computers alike. FreeBASIC is a dialect of Microsoft QuickBasic, of which the more familiar Microsoft qBASIC is a dialect. However, FreeBASIC offers additional features and is actively maintained. While BASIC may be designed for beginners, do not be fooled. Modern dialects are very capable languages able to accomplish a wide variety of tasks.
+In this tutorial series, we shall introduce the reader to core programming concepts and hygienic coding practices. At the end of each section there will be a project to perform a number of tasks one may want to accomplish on SDF.
+For more information on FreeBASIC, please refer to it's [[https://freebasic.net/|Website]]