| .BASIC Programming Language. |
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| BASIC Programming Language |
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| The right side of the Contents screen contains hyperlinks to information |
| about the BASIC programming language. |
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| Topic Summary |
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 Functional Keyword Lists Display most of the BASIC keywords in groups |
| according to common programming tasks, such |
| as constructing a loop, defining a procedure, |
| getting input from the keyboard, or writing |
| data to a file. |
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| Syntax Notation Shows how to read the syntax information that |
| is displayed in the on-line help for BASIC |
| language keywords. |
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| Fundamental Building Blocks Gives the rules for composing BASIC program |
| lines character by character. Also lists the |
| special meaning of some characters (such as %, |
| !, or #) in a BASIC program line. |
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| Data Types Summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of |
| using different data types and data structures |
| in your programs. |
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| Expressions and Operators Shows how to combine program variables into |
| expressions that calculate values, compare |
| values, and build new screens. |
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| Modules and Procedures Shows how to combine relatively short, |
| easy-to-understand modules of program text |
| into programs. |
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| Selected Programs A set of 10- to 20-line program modules that |
| do things programmers often want to do--such |
| as creating and writing to a data file. |
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| ASCII Character Codes These tables display values that programmers |
| Keyboard Scan Codes often need to include in their programs. |
