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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]]