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03 QBasic Tutorial Decisions and loops
Learning Objectives THIS SECTION IS BEING UPDATED… NOV 2015 At the end of this tutorial you will know: How to use Loops eg conditional (pre-check, post-check), fixed to repeat actions How to use conditional statements and logical operators to make decisions Selection: Where you choose to do something or not! If there is something you […]
05 SIPOS Design
SIPOS is a simple design process that allows you design a simple program and produce the code automatically, while also producing the final paper-based documentation. This methodology works well for BTEC Software development courses. If you do not skip a step and throughly test each stage, you will produce a working solution much faster than […]
04 QBasic Tutorial Procedures
SECTION 5 – DESIGNING APPLICATIONS (Linear V Modular) Learning Objectives At the end of this tutorial you will know about: How to use functions and procedures It is not practical in real world terms to set up an application in one long list of code. Many early programming languages were purely linear, meaning that they […]
02 Tutorial – Software Development Basic QBasic
INTRODUCTION Session 1 Learning Objectives At the end of this tutorial you will know about: The basic nature and features of a procedural programming language Variables – naming conventions and data types: text; integer; floating point; byte; date; Boolean. The benefits of appropriate choice of data type eg additional validation and efficiency of storage How […]
01 Introduction to Software Design using QBASIC
There are six sections to this tutorial: Introduction Basics ‘Basic’ Decisions and Loops Procedures The SIPOS Way Introduction to Software Design using QBASIC QBasic is a programming language designed for DOS (disk operating system) and is a very good language to learn and then migrate to modern day languages like VBA, VBSCRIPT, ASP, Visual Basic, […]