Despite the name, BASIC isn’t exactly a language recommended for beginners these days. Technology has moved on, and now most people would steer you towards Python if you wanted to get your feet wet ...
Make sure to extract the package contents to a folder with full write permissions (failing to do so may result in IDE or compilation errors). It is advisable to to whitelist the QB64 folder in your ...
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 ...