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- @H@1Basic BASIC
- @A@3By Smiley
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- @FAshareandenjoy08
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- 1Ok, most of us have graduated from BASIC to assembler, C, E, Pascal etc, but
- 1what a lot of people tend to forget is that we all have to start somewhere
- 1and the more obvious choice would be BASIC (for Amiga purposes AMOS is better
- 1and this article should be compatible - as I know AMOS very well I will point
- 1out any major differences).
- 1So these articles are for the very beginners amongst us (not Lamers as some
- 1"Elite" would have us believe) to get a hold of the principles of programming
- 1I will write these tutorials in psuedo-BASIC, in other words it may not tie
- 1in exactly with any actual BASIC interpreter but the theory will be there.
- 1
- 1As this is only the first issue of Zoo I wont actually write any BASIC here
- 1but refer to what I hopefully will include if I/the magazine gets sufficient
- 1demand.
- 1What you wont see here is any coding specific to the Amiga, i.e. there will
- 1be no copper, dual playfielding, sprites, bobs etc. - this is what there will
- 1be though :-
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- 1Types - integers, reals ,booleans ,characters
- 1Loops - for-next, repeat-until ,repeat-while
- 1Math - adding, subtacting, multiplying etc. (remember this is for beginners)
- 1Screen accessing - print, gotoxy
- 1Simple graphics - lines circles, boxes, use of color
- 1Procedures - gosubs, gotos
- 1File handling - opening, closing, writing, types (sequantial, indexed etc.)
- 1Misc - delays, sound
- 1
- 1Fair enough, most people will not even look at this, but I know when I first
- 1started using my good old Speccy BASIC was a mistry to me and most of the
- 1books were of little help (I only had the manuals) so it is this I am trying
- 1to rectify.
- 1
- 1If you are interested in this then drop me a note (along with some articles!
- 1come on we need all we can get!) and I will continue this. Hey I may even
- 1continue it just to fill space up in Zoo!!!
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