BASIC

Full BASIC course — 43 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Graphics Fundamentals
• Modern QB64 Graphics
• Sound & Music
• Keyboard & Mouse Input
• Timing & Game Loop Design
• Algorithms: Sorting & Searching
• Recursion & Data Structures
• Memory & Pointers
• Modular Programs & Libraries
• Command Line, Environment & System Access
• Debugging Techniques
• Introduction to BASIC
• A Brief History of BASIC
• Tools & Environment Setup
• Your First Program
• Classic Line-Numbered BASIC
• Variables, Type Suffixes & Data Types
• Constants, Operators & Expressions
• Console Input & Output
• Decisions: IF and SELECT CASE
• Loops: FOR, WHILE, DO
• FreeBASIC In Depth
• Visual Basic .NET
• VBA: Automating Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Small Basic for Beginners
• Other Modern Dialects
• Porting Classic Code to Modern BASIC
• Complete Projects
• Best Practices & Common Pitfalls
• Capstone Projects
• Appendices
• SUBs & FUNCTIONs
• Parameters, Scope & Recursion
• Arrays
• User-Defined Types
• Strings & String Functions
• Math Functions & Random Numbers
• DATA, READ & RESTORE
• Error Handling
• Sequential File I/O
• Binary & Random-Access Files
• Structured Programming Style
• Course Overview