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BASIC (standing for B eginner's A ll Purpose S ymbolic I nstruction C ode) was written (invented) in 1963, at Dartmouth College, by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates. BASIC has been one of the most commonly used computer programming languages, a simple computer language considered an easy step for students to learn before more powerful languages such as FORTRAN . (formula translation) You can read more about the evolution of BASIC at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC . My first computer language was Fortran running on IBM type big iron. Came home from college and saw that my younger brother had purchased a home computer. It was a TRS-80 and came with built in BASIC. I asked my brother how to use it and he stated read the manual. So the next couple of days I devoured the information from the text. BASIC was very much like Fortran, so the transition to learn it was fairly easily. Ended up with the limited memory of...

Game of Rock, paper, or scissors. Should be able to run on any platform that can support the Python interpreter. $ python rps.py or c:/[pythondirectory]> python rps.py rps.py [code] import random import sys def makeYourChoice():     print "Press R for Rock"     print "Press P for Paper"     print "Press S for Scissors"     print "Press Q to quit!"     userChoice = raw_input("What do you want to choose?").lower()          if userChoice == "r":         return "Rock"     if userChoice == "p":         return "Paper"     if userChoice == "s":         return "Scissors"     if userChoice == "q":         sys.exit(0)     else:         makeYourChoice() de...

Game of Rock, paper, or scissors. Should be able to run on any platform that can support the Python interpreter. $ python rps.py or c:/[pythondirectory]> python rps.py rps.py [code] import random import sys def makeYourChoice():     print "Press R for Rock"     print "Press P for Paper"     print "Press S for Scissors"     print "Press Q to quit!"     userChoice = raw_input("What do you want to choose?").lower()          if userChoice == "r":         return "Rock"     if userChoice == "p":         return "Paper"     if userChoice == "s":         return "Scissors"     if userChoice == "q":         sys.exit(0)     else:      ...

Top games for linux. For more details see: http://www.cahilig.net/2011/07/29/100-best-free-and-high-quality-linux-games