Casio BASIC

Casio BASIC, called BasicLike on some models, is the programming language built into Casio calculators, including the ClassPad, the PRIZM series, the fx-9750G and fx-9860G series, the fx-5800P, Algebra FX and CFX graphing models. It is a linear, structured language based on BASIC, and it is separate from the Casio PocketPC BASIC found on the company's older pocket computers such as the PB-100 series. It was devised so users could program commonly repeated calculations, for example the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometric work. Programs can print scrolling or placed text, draw graphs, or write results to lists and matrices in calculator memory, and programs and data move between calculators by cable or to a computer over USB. Like Tiny BASIC, its interpreter limits variable names to the letters A to Z with a single predefined array, and graphing models also allow x, y, r and theta. Because numbers can be kept in lists and matrices to make sprites, people have also written games in it, such as Pong and role-playing games, and the calculators can read data from loggers and probes.