ABOUT KIDWARE SOFTWARE, LLC

KIDware and BibleBytes were founded in 1982 to publish a series of non-violent "family friendly" computer games and learning applications for kids.    Lou Tylee originally sold his Texas Instruments TI-99 learning games in "99er Home Computer Magazine" while the Conrods sold their TRS-80 learning games through  bookstores and conferences. 

In 1983, the Conrods assembled the learning games they had written into an easy to use BASIC programming tutorial "textbook"  which could be used by beginning students to learn BASIC computer programming. The textbook was designed to be used as a supplementary computer programming textbook in schools.   The first BASIC programming textbook was published on January 1, 1984 by Ac'cent Books.  The textbook was written for the Radio Shack TRS-80, Texas Instruments TI-99 and Timex Sinclair BASIC microcomputer systems.

In 1984, the learning games were ported and released on the Apple IIe, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, and  Microsoft Basic compatible computer systems. 

A second BASIC computer programming textbook was written by the Conrods for Applesoft BASIC, Commodore BASIC, and over 200 Microsoft MBASIC compatible computer systems.  The second computer programming textbook was published on July 1, 1984 by Ac'cent Books.

In 1985, Ac'cent Books decided not to publish a third BASIC programming textbook so Philip Conrod founded PC ENTERPRISES in 1986 to publish a new series of games and programming textbooks specifically for the new IBM PC-DOS/MS-DOS platform.   Philip distributed the new PC-DOS/MS-DOS learning games as shareware on many Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).  It took Philip many years to complete the third MS-DOS GW-BASIC programming tutorial as a downloadable E-Book and the launch of the Microsoft Windows environment quickly made this tutorial obsolete.

In 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 and the Microsoft Visual Basic 4 development environment which ushered in the new world of 32 bit Windows programming.  

In 1998,  WWW.KIDWARESOFTWARE.COM  was launched on the rapidly growing World Wide Web  to help market and distribute our new Microsoft Visual Basic computer programming tutorials. LEARN VISUAL BASIC 5  was published on the internet as a Beginning Visual Basic course for colleges and universities.   This Visual Basic courseware was successfully taught in a major Washington State University's introductory programming course for many years. VISUAL BASIC FOR KIDS was developed as a beginning Visual Basic tutorial for kids and teens.  In late 1998, the tutorials were updated to Visual Basic 6.   BEGINNING VISUAL BASIC  6 was developed as beginning Visual Basic programming tutorials for computer enthusiasts.