Learning Basic Programming: Lesson 3

[boomymad]

What can you Create with this program?

[xROBOGAMERx]

how can you make the do loop = more then one integer or string. ive tried to figue it out but cant seem to get it. its always an error any help.

[hvacr24]

in a bit of a jam, can you help me set up a program for school. Create a BASIC program that captures customer information for Aardvark Pest Control. and recalls a file from an c drive or thumb drive and puts in it the code, writings.

This information is stored to a sequential access file. You will capture the following information and write it to a file.

Name

Address

City

State

Zip

Pest type

In your program open the file as append so it keeps the previous information in the file.

[Man2Break]

Thanks! I've put a password on my calculator!

[partyhardy2412]

man you are awesome but at lesson 2 i had some problems which you dident but i figured it out :I

[killerseeU]

ah i cant understand this one

[Skanapeko]

Is it possible to create a program that will run through all combinations of in a defined length without having to type them all out in the programing?

[shadowjutsumaster]

yeah, learning the basics was extreamly easy watching your vids

thanks :)

[TheDreadmoon]

you are better than the other people out there and acually tell us what whatever command does thanks a ton and do you have any more tutorials i've watched 1 2 3 4 is there a 5

[Dani9HD]

so when you go to university to study programmin what you will do???

[DTAgaming2012]

can u use the doloop as a password to the pprogram?

[DTAgaming2012]

can you use the loops to send infomation to websites like a DoS but without it pinging it sending info and also be able to take infomation from websites?

[vongolapillow]

is it possible to create an internet cafe security like cybercafe, cafe suit etc. using vb 6??? pls send me a project code as well.

[tokoloshe98]

you are great, the best tutorials i have ever seen for programing

[omg7474]

I'm having so much fun with your videos, but I have no idea why.

[milkymilkway]

Ok I don't see what the point is of an array why can't you just do the print code?

[milkymilkway]

I always get an error on my end subs and dim choice? any help

[Metalmanic575]

@milkymilkway well declare the variables as something, that helped alot...

[ultislasher1]

the do input... is it used to make password protections?

btw, i think ill be ready for college. ten year old me thinks programming is fun xD

[MsKittyMasta]

anyone know what the point of an array is? they just seem harder and less usefull than the other loop

[jaywalker512]

@MsKittyMasta Arrays are probably the most useful things in programming. Makes operating on large amounts of data super easy. Both types of loops can be used to do the same things.

[onfireLBPguy2011]

@jaywalker512 can you use GUI in freebasic

[kalo2202]

@MsKittyMasta its basicaly findgin geomteric and arithmetic sequences for any term in pre calc!

[fcdog555]

@MsKittyMasta I have written a program that used arrays as matrices.

[PandaTaco5]

Do you know any BASIC programs for Mac OS X 10.6?

[jaywalker512]

@PandaTaco5 FreeBasic (current version) is crossplatform, and can run on Win/Mac/*nix.

[ElcaminoG600]

hi. i need help. how do i program a drop down box? can you mke a video in it? thanks :) by rop down box i mean multiple choice answer, so that whenyou click on it, it selects it as your answer to the iput thingy. :)

[DrH4x0r1]

When I ran the program it was 999 2's

[00016588]

I do not get dim birds(999) as integer

dim i as integer

for i = 0 to 999 birds(i) = i * 2 print birds(i)

next i

sleep at all

[DLo12141982]

I was curious if you had a video on building an Algorithm. I

[MetaView7]

there are free screen capture programs that do not add the logo in the screen.

[VidsOfOurLabor]

i maed a sweet calculator program and ur lessons are really easy to understand for me i dont know why but they are fun

[sjerseyb856]

Dude your the man thanks for taking the time to teach us and inspire us to get into programing.

[TheWebpages17]

My one and only LOVE that i've never seen personally for he has Big Brain (GLORY TO GOD) .... I love to learning/studying. I love it here !!!!!!!!!!!!

SoooooooooooooooooooooooMuchhh­hhhhhhh !!!!

[CombatArms1489]

man the lessons get harder. but ill keep trying cuz we r learning about integers n stuff in school

[Carlo5Mc]

Besides the oops, You're doin' fine man!

Just don't despair and keep going.

i really enjoy your classes.

Thanxs, for it's worth the effort.

[konavinyali12]

Yeah, jaywalker, I'd really like that=) I'm fascinated with mechatronics, just not that experienced. I've used Mindstorm, and worked with Fisherteknic (idk how to spell it lol) but I don't know that much

[queenamelia82]

I really enjoyed these. I was supposed to take progamming classes but we moved and I never got to. This is so much easier than just reading (although reading is helpful). Thanks :) (perhaps I should mention that us with 64 instead of 32bit windows will have some trouble with freebasic and ide. There probably is a way to fix the error I was having but I just used my old laptop instead)

[konavinyali12]

@queenamelia82

hmmm I've never had an issue using 64 bit

what was your problem?

[konavinyali12]

hey, Jaywalker=)

i dunno if you're still monitoring the comments on this vid, but I'm a beginning programmer and you're tutorials on freeBASIC have helped me a LOT.

I wanted to thank you for taking the time to make them, and also to ask if you'd make one about file handling and creating our own functions. Please? =-)

[jaywalker512]

Glad they've been useful for you :) To be honest I dont know anything about how to do file handling or functions in freebasic, I only know that stuff in vb6. Even then it's been over a year since I coded anything so I'm a wee bit rusty :/

[konavinyali12]

rats. I know you said that your fourth tutorial would be your last for freebasic, but you are really a good teacher (not to mention you gave me the idea to eat brownies while programming). Would you make some more tutorials for us? You'd make a raw noob very happy=)

[jaywalker512]

Maybe if I get back into programming more I'll do some more tuts, but at the moment I dont have anything planned. Lately I've been doing stuff with electrical engineering and physical circuits and stuff. If you're interested in that kind of thing I might give a few lessons some time, not sure tho.

[crysstaafur]

freebasicdotnet slash forum slash index dot php

go to projects and look for fbedit for a code editor

go to windows,near the bottom of the main forum and look for win32 svn compile for the latest build

the forums are an awesome resource for learning freebasic

hope this helps

peace

btw, if ya wanna see what freebasic can do for game development, have a look at my videos

dbos, dabooda turbo, and dbhge can all be found at

daboodadotorg

[jaywalker512]

I'd be temped to ask you for some help with dx8 in vb if I did much coding anymore. I could never get stuff to work right :/ cool vids tho, good work.

[crysstaafur]

thanx. Not just Vb though... DBOS and DBhge are native freebasic ;)

I am also have a wrapper for db turbo for fb also.

My brother and I learned and experimented on code from both vbgamer and Jack Hoxley's tutorials... drop me a msg if you are interested in directx. btw, the freebasic gfx primatives utilitze directx natively also.. ;) peace

[Toca91]

lol 15,666 views XD

[johnnyharpe]

Now I can hear, but why are you pinching your nose?

[jaywalker512]

I was probably sick at the time.

[GuyBlue78]

Thanks (OXOXOXOXO)

[XXXXWTFXXXX]

I just want to ask if there is a language that is infinity. and if there is, what is it? thanks..

btw your tutorial are helpful by far.. this is my first time learning programming.. and I consider programming as of this moment a hobby hehe

[kopilatis12321]

at about 17:10 where you do this example...how can the program know that thenum  equals 1 and no other value?i dont know if u can understand what im askong though....

[bergamini94]

i thought about this also when i saw it. maybe the num is just another word that should be highlited and its default value is one.

[nitro2thonder]

dose are the best tutorials on the web i wish you would do more of them for example how to do colors in free basic and i also wish there would be such tutorials for c++

and dose vids are great

[bergamini94]

check out luivsion (maybe spelled wrong) but he does lots of C++ and java tutorials.

[mikh3x4]

thanks

[chrstnrnld]

jay walker please elaborate the work of do loop a little bit more .....in which manner we could use it...

[jaywalker512]

what do you mean, what are you confused about? I will probably cover the use of a do loop a little more in my next vb6 tut.

[Nothing595]

5/5 nice vid

quick question, on the one with the "dim Bird", with all those numbers after u multiply the 2 and 999...

whats that say behind the multi-colored square thing in the middle of the screen? I cant read it cause its being blocked.

[nitro2thonder]

what is the i doing there

[KBo24o]

im a begginner to programing and im not sure which language to use? can u explain to me what languages are good for what? thnks

[BlA5tFiRe]

ty for your video, it helped me alot

[SteveSchlotterer]

dude, I gotta learn BASIC for a job interview test, and these tutorials are VERY helpful :-) So far, this language seems easy to learn compared to C, C++ and Java (the languages I learned in college). Thanks for the help!

[stephen3065stephen]

thanks for the info u doing a good thing.

[raiza102]

Well the vids are helpful but i would like to know more about accumulators and counters. Where to exactly put them in a program i am writing? If there is anyway you can help me please. I just need a little bit. Thanks i appreciate it.

[JessysYT]

Ive always wanted to get into programming but i never really understood the basics.. like naming a string like

"dim ThisString as string"

I always figured ThisString was a preset word and you had to use it or else you would get errors.

Iono it's hard to explain it but it feels like you just cleared the fog away.

Anyways off to Lesson 4 :P

[JessysYT]

i fucking love these videos.

thank you so much for the time you put into them

[jaywalker512]

haha, no problem :)

[johnparyrental]

I was wondering if u could post a video describing each command for Basic it would be really usefull to me and i bet other people aswell. Other than that your tutorials are great and u are a great teacher :)

[Hellsing666inc]

could you use a do loop in a program some what like a password tell they enter the right one?

[jaywalker512]

sure could :)

[acionelement]

i am really glad you posted these vids, i now know more after watching these for the first time than i did after searching the web for six months thanx a bunch jaywalker

[CCRS0N]

your talking to laud ;) lol joke

[mamoncito6969]

i agree with the ppl below these videos rock ive been looking through the internet how to learn this stuff and everything was all complicated and expected me to already know a whole bunch of stuff but these videos are really awesome

[PuppetPals1234]

Your videos rule! I went through quite a few softwares for this stuff and yet you had it here free the whole time with tutorials that i can uderstand. So can you make any type of games or only text based ones or wat.

[jaywalker512]

with this language, its best to just stick to text based games. if you wanted to make like 2d/3d graphical games, your best bet would be C or C++, but thats only after years and years of experience. game design is not something you learn quickly.

[ryuutsume]

People do appear to be making 2-D graphical games with FreeBASIC. I assume there are technical reasons why this isn't an ideal tool for games, even though it's "possible"?

[jaywalker512]

Its possible yet, but freebasic isnt exactly what one would call a "fast" language, and from my experience, it is difficult to program graphics from a language that is mainly text based. C/C++ is no easier, but its faster and its the industry standard, which is why I mentioned it. So called "visual languages" vb/vc++/vc# etc. are a lot easier to make simple 2d games with, if thats all you want to do.

[samuelking32]

dude i had know idea what i was doing then i watched your videos you are an awesome teacher keep making theses videos!

[TheRipp3RPD]

i learned the basics in a couple of hour. You sir are a very good teacher.

[gkamua]

Very Good Teacher -  doubt yourself no more

[jaywalker512]

thanks :)

[shaunrocks12]

thank you but i have a question is this just about numbers or can you program like games not big games lol i mean like text based ones?

[jaywalker512]

yes, you can program text based games with this language.

[Nitsua66]

Youre a Very Good Teacher...you need to become a teacher in the future ;)

[RastafarianPilgrim]

Thanks, and if I'd like to store previously calculated numbers for later use, how do I log them and how do I call them? (I'm trying to make a calculator for my laptop so I wont have to calculate everything in my head; numbers just ain't my thing)

[RastafarianPilgrim]

I've made a simple calculation system that allows you to choose a potency and then enter an integer as the number that will be multiplied by itself x number of times; do you know how to make an opposite calculator/squareroot calc?

[jaywalker512]

well an easy way to get the square root of a number is with the sqr() function.

[RastafarianPilgrim]

does that work in FreeBasic or is it something you're just asuming works as it works in Qbasic or whatever you use? :P

[jaywalker512]

yep, it works in freebasic, i made sure to test it before i told you :)

[Blackhearted3312]

You're not a bad teacher! This is really cool! Thanks for putting them up!

[nodoubt76112]

What did you use to video youre lessons that I can actually see what you are typing and what the outcome looks like when finished? The video are gteat!!! Are you going to do any other programming language? Thank You for the time!

[diddie007]

sry it is made couldent find it before :P found it now how many is there?

[jaywalker512]

only 4 right now, havent had time to make more

[diddie007]

hey lesson 4? make it ;P

[jeremyzachmann]

never mind im a jackass

[jeremyzachmann]

is there anything wrong with this

dim word as string

do until word = "hi" dim myimput as string input "enter a word" ; myinput word = myimput

loop

[RastafarianPilgrim]

I don't see anything other than the fact that you can't decide between "imput" and "input"

[cripboy88]

[keep up the good work]:)

[Silentysniper]

Hey man, I made a 4+ calculator

It has Add,Subtract,Multiply and divide

[Shardogga]

Thanks, first time i ever programmed and this was easy to follow. Please make more vids!

[Shardogga]

Thanks, first time i ever programmed, this was easy to follow. Please make more of these vids!

[Shardogga]

Thanks, first time i ever proggramed and this tutorial was easy to follow. Please make more of these vids!

[cowleyjags]

Thank you for your sharing your time and talent!

[aler3t]

keep up thanks

[edison400]

Tank you so much, please make more.

[qasemkhan]

Thanks a lot man, for taking your time for us. Keep it up.

[F4G4]

galing mo pre sige bigay kapa ng lesson

[johnwedd]

keep up the good work

[okthisissocool]

What is the name of the compiler you use?