Prelude to Computer Science - 14: A simple program in BASIC

We examine a very simple program in the BASIC programming language. BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Some programmers really like acronyms. The program asks the user for two numbers, adds the numbers, and prints the results.

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• prelude
• computer
• science
• introduction
• program
• programming
• BASIC

[pardes5]

sir.. I loved the way you are teaching assembly programming.

Would that be possible to upload a video to explaing how to convert ASCII in wombat 4 program.

i will be thankful to you.

[TheFallibleFiend]

I'm unfamiliar with wombat.

Have you tried to search on "wombat ascii conversion" ?

[adrigent]

How does the computer know about variables a and b, if we didn't declare them in the first place as int values?

[TheFallibleFiend]

It depends on which version of BASIC you are using.Some version will assume the numbers are real. Others you have to explicitly declare. In this example, I assumed they were integers.

[Gremrat]

Hey! I'm considering going into computational linguistics; I know enough about linguistics, but not so much about computing, so I've been reading up on it. Your "Prelude to Computer Science" series has been very helpful to me :) Thank-you.

[TheFallibleFiend]

...and good luck.

[haNiieeph]

thanks alot! now i know that basic's universal attitude is translate then execute :)

[pardes5]

this lecture is helpful.. thanks for that.

in my university slides, we are working with wombat 1,2,3 and 4.

using array and convert input to ASCII codes

[breakdance19890201]

haha. my professor told me I would fail if i used GOTO. :D

[TheFallibleFiend]

You're welcome.  Thanks for the feedback.