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basic 256 free beginner programming language skip to content basic 256 home learn download community book about try online home learn download community book about github learn programming the simple way basic 256 is a beginner friendly programming language that makes learning to code fun with graphics math and immediate results try basic 256 online download now runs in your browser no account needed free gpl v3 run basic 256 directly in your browser this is the real basic 256 the same interpreter as the desktop app compiled to webassembly your program never leaves your machine nothing is uploaded anywhere a sandboxed tab cannot do everything a desktop can so a few commands are unavailable basic 256 webassembly launch basic 256 opens run basic256 org in a new tab and downloads roughly 16 mb the first time best on a desktop browser or run the full desktop app the desktop build gives you the complete ide syntax highlighting a step debugger separate text and graphics output panes and full speed for animation heavy programs like the one shown here download for your os read the documentation the bubbleuniverse kbs example running in the desktop ide click to enlarge and learn it from a free textbook james m reneau wrote a complete beginner s course for basic 256 so you want to learn to program teaching graphics games animation and sound step by step with exercises at the end of every chapter it is free to read online read the book why choose basic 256 a complete beginner ide editor graphics text output and a debugger in one window instant graphics draw circles lines images and animations with no libraries to install designed for experimentation type a few lines press run and see the result straight away runs almost anywhere windows macos linux the raspberry pi and the browser a real language underneath arrays files sound sprites databases and networking on the desktop free and open source gpl v3 with a friendly community behind it news downloads and community latest news view all basic 256 v2 2 0 released where 2 1 modernised the original 2 2 0 starts adding to the language window coordinates matrix and vector maths framerate noise turtle graphics sep 13 2026 basic 256 v2 1 1 released a maintenance release on top of 2 1 0 programs run about twice as fast and the browser version now remembers your program across a refresh aug 27 2026 basic 256 v2 1 0 released the first stable release of the 2 1 series qt 6 a browser build apple silicon and intel macs a module library and a new look aug 13 2026 downloads view all windows installer or portable zip macos apple silicon and intel builds linux appimage and tarball x86_64 raspberry pi appimage and tarball arm64 browser webassembly nothing to install all files on github older releases community github view source code and contribute github discussions ask questions and help others discord chat with other basic 256 users in real time example programs collections built and shared by the community uglymike s web lair gui toolkit demos particle simulations and step by step tutorials basic bits copy paste and run programs posted as a blog oonap0oo on github kurt moerman s basic 256 and cross dialect basic code basic 256 a simple programming language for learning teaching and creating 2026 basic 256 project learn documentation tutorials reference bundled examples community github discussions discord contribute contact code of conduct resources blog links changelog license privacy