BASIC

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Topics

  • History of BASIC
    • Place within the history of high-level programming languages
    • Dartmouth BASIC
    • BASIC version 2
    • C64 BASIC
    • Discussion of how much variation there was in BASIC dialects on contemporaneous machines
    • The role of BASIC today
  • BASIC technical topics introduced through their inclusion in the program of study
    • Line numbers
      • Flow control
        • BASIC not a structured programming language (no blocks, etc.)
        • Many of BASIC's control flow concepts are taken directly from machine language
        • GOTO
          • Dijkstra's arguments against GOTO.
        • FOR NEXT
          • Demonstrate GOTOless version of program
        • GOSUB
        • IF THEN
    • PRINT
      • Originally used for output to print terminals
      • text fields
      • semicolon
    • CHR$
      • Strings and numbers
      • The representation of strings in BASIC
    • RND
      • Brief description of the RND function
    • Background on the functions in BASIC. Why are the particular functions in BASIC present?
    • Peek and poke - man
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