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    Unhappy qbasic question

    hey guys. I was hoping you could asnwer this question i have.... ive just started messing around with programming. i kno the basics of qbasic(print,cls,what a variable is,etc), but what i cant figure out is how to use the program you write in q basic. i save it and i can locate it but when i click it it sais open with what programming. is it possible i can use the program i make in q basic? how can i use the program i make?!

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    Nice to know people are learning how to program...

    I'm guessing that you are using the program QBASIC in MS-DOS to program this. If so, there should be some menu at the top that says RUN. Click it, and there should be a thing that says START. Or, you can press [Shift] + [F5], and that should do it.

    I think there is a website where you can download QBASIC if you don't have it. I think it is somewhere in http://www.qbasic.com My teacher told me about it, but I didn't stay there long enough to find it...

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    You can get a good start by buying some books but you can only get so far with books. Eventually someone’s going to have to teach you how to program.
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    get a copy of firstbasic from powerbasic. its shareware but dosn't expire.

    I didn't see it on their site but a quick search on goole:

    http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare...1/firstbas.zip

    its 98% compatable with qb lang, and it compiles and links your code. beats the hell outa using bat files or the run command to call the interpeter.
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    as he asked ppl read the threads i havent seen a way to make qbasic programs executable but u never know should start learning pascal better more c++ ish with functions and stuff well thats my 22.6c
    thanks
    RiOtEr

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    I wrote a tutorial on QBasic somewhere in the Tutorials Forum. I don't know, but it might be of _some_ use to you.

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    Qbasic is nice to start with if you want to learn a little. My suggestion is to go with visual basic or c++. Granted now it is a little more work, but it really pays off in the end.
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    Originally posted here by RiOtEr
    as he asked ppl read the threads i havent seen a way to make qbasic programs executable but u never know should start learning pascal better more c++ ish with functions and stuff well thats my 22.6c
    thanks
    RiOtEr
    Qbasic came in two versions. Normal Qbasic was included
    in MS-DOS, and you had to run the Qbasic interpreter
    to run your programs.

    There was a commercial version, called Quick Basic, and it
    would compile your programs into EXE executables that
    would run on any PC.
    I came in to the world with nothing. I still have most of it.

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    Thanx guys , with your help i figured it out

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