Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing: Learn BASIC with a Commodore Emulator

© Gerald Friedland 2019

Gerald FriedlandBeginning Programming Using Retro Computinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4146-2_10

10. A Program

Gerald Friedland¹ 

(1)

Berkeley, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, you will understand what a program is and even write your first one. As usual, start with this screen:

Remember, the black blinking rectangle is called the cursor.

Let’s type a program. It begins with line numbers. Type this:

10 PRINT “HELLO MONA”

Press RETURN.

Then type this:

20 GOTO 10

Press RETURN.

The screen looks like this:

Then type this:

RUN

Press ...