Designed for use by both secondary- and postsecondary-level business teachers, this curriculum guide consists of 10 units of instructional materials dealing with Beginners All-Purpose Symbol Instruction Code (BASIC) programing. Topics of the individual lessons are numbering BASIC programs and using the PRINT, END, and REM statements; system commands; constants, variables, arithmetic operations, and the LET statement; methods of input, including READ, DATA, RESTORE, and INPUT statements; program control, including relational operators, GO TO statements, IF THEN statements, logical operators, and counters; program development cycle and flowcharting; formulated output--PRINT USING statement and TAB function; FOR/NEXT statements, built-in functions, and subroutines; and subscripted variables, the dimension statement, and single- and double-dimensional arrays. Included in each unit are some or all of the following: performance objectives, suggested activities for instructors and students, information sheets, visual aids, assignment sheets, answers to assignment sheets, tests, test answers, and references. (MN)