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{{Infobox video game
|title = Basic Programming (Book)
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|developer = [[Warren Robinett]]
|publisher = Atari
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* '''Status''' displays the amount of available memory remaining
* '''Graphics''' contains two colored squares that can be manipulated by your program.
Input was given through two Atari keyboard controllers, which came with special overlays to show how to type the different commands and letters. Programs were restricted only up to 64 characters in size and 9 lines of code and thereby severely limiting anything other than programs such as printing names or moving a block across the screen. The cartridge intended to teach programming using its keypad controllers, which was not really a suitable medium of input for programming. Users could disable all windows except Program and keep selecting "New Line" until over nine empty lines had been entered and thus their program could use 11 lines of code using this trick. Given these limitations, Basic Programming cartridge never took off and is considered to be a novel but a failed product.
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