Welcome to my first tutorial, it is probable that if you are reading this then you are new to
Qbasic and want to learn it.  Well you came to the right place.  This tutorial is aimed at
teaching the most basic things you need to know, such as CLS, PRINT, etc.

Lets get going then...


SECTION 1   -  Starting up
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One of the first things you might be thinking is "Oh my god, I have got no idea about programming
how am I expected to keep up with this!?"  Now, now carm down, its easy and i'm sure you'll catch
on soon enough.

Now if your so new that you don't even know where to put your code then read on, if you have
Qbasic all set up then skip to 'SECTION 2'.

Right, well you will need a Qbasic Interpreter, or the Compiler.  Try looking n the web for an
the QBasic .exe
OK, you have the .exe now so all you need to do is run it.  If you can run it simply by double
clicking then good for you, if not then you have to use the DOS Command Line.

If it all works then your screen should go blue and you have (more or less) a mouse cursor.
This is where you put your code to run.  You can check whether you have got the interpreter or
the compiler by clicking on the RUN menu, if you see a COMPILE option then you have compiler, if
not then you have the interpreter.  It doesn't realy matter which you have (not for my tutorials
anyway).  TYhe compiler is generaly faster and allows you to make executables from your code.


SECTION 2
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OK then lets get going on actualy learning.

The first thing that I shall teach you is CLS.  What this does is clear the screen, it will make
the screen blank, you can use this to clear text and graphics from the screen.
This is all fine and well, but as of yet you have nothing to clear from the screen. So what about
learning PRINT this command can be used to make the computer write something on the screen, at
first its name can be decieving, but you'll understand later.
So how do we use it?..  Its easy realy, look at the following program:

'--------------------
CLS

PRINT "HELLO WORLD."
'--------------------

Lets step through:

First of all the CLS command will clear the screen.
Second we reach the PRINT command as you can see from the code the words 'HELLO WORLD.' are
enclosed in speach marks.  This is how you use PRINT.

Try using PRINT to write other things on the screen, experiment with CLS and PRINT.

Writing words isn't the only thing that PRINT can do, it can do some math too.
Have a look at this:

'--------------------
CLS

PRINT "12 TIMES 12 IS:"
PRINT 12*12
'--------------------

You should already know what the first two lines do so I will go on to the final line.  Most of
you will be able to figure out what it does, but for those of you that can't its simple * means
multiply so 12*12 means 12 multiplied by 12. And print will write the answer on the screen.

Print can do more, but I'll leave at this for the minute.

Before I go I'll just tell you this, if you have just the word PRINT on its own, without any
other words or numbers then it will just print a blank line and move onto the next.

Thats all for this one.