BASIC on Ubuntu

Posted by Tim Lytle on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Tim Lytle
Published on 2010-10-11T15:56:56Z Indexed on 2011/01/18 1:00 UTC
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Was asked by a new Ubuntu user - who also wants to learn about programming - what he could use to run BASIC code. He was working through a BASIC book before trying out Ubuntu, and he'd like to continue without having to switch back to Windows.

It looks like there are a few BASIC packages in the standard repositories, as well as projects like Mono which may include some kind of BASIC support.

What would be a good recommendation from the standard repositories - or from a deb package - for someone learning the basics of BASIC and new to Ubuntu?

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