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The current version works with BBC Basic for Windows™.
See Links for where to obtain this
LEARN BASIC
Programming in Basic has several uses.
Quite apart from the fact that it is fun, it is the basis of programming in
Microsoft™ Word, Microsoft™ Access and Visual Basic.
The CD contains 5 directories:-
- 1. Segments (over 50 partly done programs to finish, or correct)
- 2. Book (99 pages including answers with explanations)
- 3. Answers (110 answers)
- 4. Files (21 prepared files for use in the programs)
- 5. Library (22 programs)
These include five Alphabetic and Numeric sorts which can be added to your own programs.
- Coding and decoding programs for sending and receiving coded messages.
- NIM (a number game)
- Bearings (Guess, or calculate, a ship's bearing in order to sink it)
- BigSums allows floating point arithmetic of very large numbers.
- e.g. 123456789999 divided by 0.000000017 equals 7262164117588235294.11764705882352941176
- The Chinese Emperor and chess (in the Answers directory)
- Mayan Long Count
- PrintNumber print a large number as it would be spoken (up to 1 vigintillion)
- Birthday (In the Answers directory) Change any day of the year to the Mayan equivalent
- e.g. June 21 converts to CHEN 12 - with Mayan graphic of the month
- Snowfall is a simple scene with snow that slowly settles.
BioRhythms Starting from birth our physical, emotional and intellectual powers all pass
through a definite pattern of highs and lows. These variations alter every 23, or 28 or 33 days.
BioRhythms will print a one month graph showing your current position in the cycle.
Another example of Big Sums:-
63!=63*62*61*......*3*2*1 (Answer [using BigSums] below)
1982608315404440064116146708361898137544773690227268628106279599612729753600000000000000
BBC Basic for Windows comes with a 99 page manual
and a 19 page explanation of keywords.
Both manuals are Word™ documents.
Extra that comes with the package
1. GraphPlot will plot Cartesian and Polar curves. Fixed scale or Auto scale axes.
Plots BOTH halves of square root curves.
Discards areas where the curve is not defined, without error messages,
Just draws the parts which are defined.
Shade regions.
Change colours.
Zoom (in or out)
* calls.
Solve for roots.
Comes with user manual and demonstrations.
2. Disc Cataloguer Catalogues any disc, or folder, with, or without, all sub folders.
If the same disc, or folder, is catalogued again later on then changes
will be automatically registered on the catalogue.
i.e. if more files have been added to the disc then they will be added to the catalogue
if some files have been deleted from the disc then they will be deleted from the catalogue
files that were there before will not be touched.
Number of records held in the catalogue file is limited only by your hard disc memory.
View, or print any disc, folder, file or extension on the catalogue.
Fuzzy, or non fuzzy, searches for filenames
Comes with user manual
3. Digital Control
Procedures are supplied for driving the Minilab 1008™ user port device.
This is available from www.adeptscience.co.uk
and supplies a total of 28 I/O lines plus analogue and timer functions.
This package deals only with the I/O lines and supplies procedures for controlling them.
These procedures can be incorporated into your own programs.
Artwork for 11 different boards is included:-
1. Traffic lights
2. 8 LEDs
3. Circular LEDs
4. 16 LEDs
5. 3 digit up/down counter
6. 7 segment LED
7. Motor control
8. Switches and LEDs
9. 10 bit card reader
10. Twin dice
11. Minilab™ to BBC board (below)
This board is professionally made
but it is very easy to make your own from the supplied artwork.
Simple home made board using the artwork below
Includes a user manual and software procedures for accessing all the ports in the above diagram
e.g.
PROC_BBCOut(value%).................places value% on the BBC Port
variable%=FN_BBCIn....................reads the value on the BBC Port and places it in variable%
PROC_PortOut("A",value%)..........places value% on PortA
All the supplied procedures can be loaded into your own programs
NOTE
MINILAB™ also allows analogue control, and timers, but that is not covered in this work.
Example topics in the BBC Basic document:-
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Graphics
Animation
Encoding/Decoding messages (different methods)
Sorting (5 different algorithms)
Merging files to a new file
Fixtures list
String handling
Validation
Morse Code (turn keyboard typing to Morse)
Searches
Password (not a simple case)
NIM (a number game)
Dealing cards (including the whole pack)
Program your way into, and out of, a MAZE
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Anagram (word or complete sentence)
Knight moves on chess board (visit every square)
Overhead crane simulation
(pick up, move, & drop loads)
Raffle
Change case (Upper to Lower or mixed)
Binary chop (rapid search of alphabetic list)
Use of logic
Guide a moving ball around a course
Lift-9 floors-take people to their requested floors
Display a 24 hour clock in fast time
How many Hours, Minutes and Seconds is 2087341 seconds
Invoice for goods purchased from stock list and price list
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The programs include:-
Functions and procedures with/without parameters.
Indirection,
Offsets,
Pointers
Straightforward problems that introduce computing and programming concepts
Meet a few keywords and then learn how to use them before progressing to more keywords.
Think CHR$ and DATA is absurdly easy? You could be wrong!
Finally meet some tricky problems that will require some ingenuity - answers fully explained.
Keywords used
( This will vary slightly as some keywords are not available in earlier versions of BBC Basic )
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ABS
AND
ASC
ASC
CASE..WHEN..ENDCASE
CHR$
CIRCLE
CIRCLEFILL
CLG
CLS
CLOSE
COLOUR
COS
DATA
DEF FN
DEF PROC..ENDPROC
DIM
DRAW
END
EOF#
EOR
EVAL
FALSE
FOR.TO..NEXT..STEP
GCOL
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GET
GOSUB..RETURN
GOTO
IF..THEN..ELSE..ENDIF
INKEY
INPUT
INPUT#
INSTR
INT
LEFT$
LEN
MID$
MOD
MODE
MOUSE X,Y,B
MOVE
NOT
OPENIN
OPENOUT
OR
OTHERWISE
PI
PLOT
POINT
PRINT
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PRINT#
PTR#
RAD
READ
RECTANGLEFILL
REM
REPEAT..UNTIL
RIGHT$
RND
SIN
SOUND
STR$
STR$
STRING$
SWAP
TAB
TAB
TIME
TRUE..FALSE
VAL
VDU 23
VDU 28..VDU 26
VDU 5..VDU 4
WHILE..ENDWHILE
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