Learning JustBasic. The Programming language.

chris98

Practising arrays first, in a program based on the popular message board game, involving putting personal stats based on birthdays etc, and getting a random sentence. For example off a zelda message board I got:

1) The first letter of Your name=C=I made fun of
2) The day you were born on=28=a silver rupee
3) The month you were born in=10=and can't remember anything after that.
Full sentence:

I made fun of a silver rupee and can't remember anything after that.
Understand?
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TMC · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:34 am Post subject:

I've never heard of it, but the name sends shivers down my spine.

BASIC isn't a bad way to learn basics of programming and you should have a breeze doing so, but:

-if there's a GOSUB command, I suggest you keep away Raspberry!

-if you want to do something more serious/actually code anything or learn advanced topics, switch to something else before you scar youself as a programmer forever, heh.

So anyway, good luck programming. It's always cool to see people get into it.
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chris98 · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:45 am Post subject:

What do you suggest TMC? What should I switch to?
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Jack · **the fool** Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 773

0's and 1's are always fun.
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TMC · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

(Huh? I thought I had responded to this?)

BASIC isn't all bad. The OHR is coded in it... it just stumbles on some of BASIC's pitfalls.

You ought to do fine learning programming in JB, but don't try to code any serious projects in it, or do more advanced programming.

Just realise that BASIC has several differences with most other languages, like not declaring variables... it doesn't stop you from writing bad code, so try not to get into the habit of doing so.

Alot of people suggest Python, which I plan to learn soon. You'll probably find it more difficult than BASIC, but that's because it's far more powerful and it's SANE.
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

don't bother learning any programming language. just learn assembly. Big grin

chris98 · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:18 am Post subject:

James Paige is helping me through e-mail. He sends me a task to try and I code it and send the result. We're on the first task: Make a program that displays a map with 4 different tiles. Tile types specified by him: Water, Grass, Tree, Mountain. Map layout attached.
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chris98 · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

Were done with task 2 now: get the map info from a plain text file and build it like that. 1a was to alter the code to use 2 for-next loops to build the map from data that came from within the coding. Cool

Doing really well.
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Sparoku · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:20 am Post subject:

Glad to hear that things are going well. Happy

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chris98 · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:42 am Post subject:

Thanks Spar!
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