CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC Note (Remote web server)
CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC Note The term BASIC stands for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was created in 1963 at Dartmouth College. Using REALbasic, programmers create stand-alone applications. Stand-alone, in this instance, means that once written and compiled, an application can run natively on the OS for which it was created. Nothing else is required. Compiling is the process of translating programming statements into a format that can be executed on a particular OS. REALbasic is made up of a graphical integrated development environment (IDE), an object-oriented programming language, a debugger, and a cross-platform compiler, as Figure 1-1 shows. REALbasic provides a powerful collection of tools that any professional software developer can appreciate. At the same time, first-time programmers and computer hobbyists will find that REALbasic is easy to learn and fun to work with. Figure 1-1. The REALbasic IDE, as shown on Windows
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