My programming class was taught Qbasic b/c it would be fun to learn it between Visual Basic units. I actually think it's BETTER than VB, but then I'm not a fan of VB at all.

When I got my first computer, a second hand 386 running MS-DOS 6.22, I didn’t have an Internet connection. But I did have QuickBASIC installed and a stack of programming magazines the local library ...