Programmed Lessons in QBasic

This is a gentle introduction to programming using the computer programming language QBasic (sometimes called QBasic). This introduction is used for a course in computer literacy for students of all majors. Its goal is to show what programming is about using the fundamental features of QBasic.

These are interactive lessons. Each chapter consists of about 20 web pages, and is about the equivalent of one classroom lecture. At the bottom of each page is a question on the material on that page. Answer the question before moving on to the next page.

Nobody learns programming just by reading. Copy the example programs into QBasic, run them, modify them, and play with them. Details on how to do this are in the lessons. With the guidance of these notes, you can use QBasic itself as an interactive "teaching machine". This is very effective.

chapter 00	PREFACE
chapter 01	Small Programs
chapter 02	Arithmetic Expressions
chapter 03	Variables
chapter 04	The INPUT Statement
chapter 05	Beginning Graphics
chapter 06	Loops
chapter 07	More about Loops
chapter 08	Example Programs with Loops
chapter 09	Loop Conditions
chapter 10	Decision Making
chapter 11	Single-branch IF Statements
chapter 12	Logical Expressions
chapter 13	String Variables
chapter 14	Creating Large Programs
chapter 15	More about Program Structure
chapter 16	Practice with Program Construction
chapter 17	Decisions
chapter 18	Many-way Decisions
chapter 19	FOR Loops
chapter 20	Further about the FOR Statement
chapter 21	Nested Loops, and Graphics
chapter 22	Arrays
chapter 23	Arrays of Numbers
chapter 24	Arrays and Loops
chapter 25	File Output
chapter 26	File Input
Appendix A	Installing QBasic
Appendix B	Running QBasic
Index

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