Getting started with QBASIC

• Using a Macintosh? -- A Mac won't run my seminar unless it can run Windows, sorry.

• Using a Sun, Cray, IBM 360, etc.? -- same thing.

• No QuickBASIC icon? -- Try using File and Search... in the File Manager to find: QBASIC, QB00, QB, QBX files ending in .EXE or .PIF. Any of these will work. Just click on the file to run BASIC instead of clicking on the icon.

• No BASIC on your computer? --maybe you don't have BASIC on your computer. QBASIC was shipped with most versions of DOS and Windows, but you might have missed it. You can probably load QBASIC from your original Windows CD that was shipped with your computer. For complete directions, I suggest looking on page 62 in Beginning Programming for Dummies.

  A really neat way to begin learning about computers and programming is with this book by Wallace Wang. Please don't be insulted by my suggesting a book for "dummies." I use dummies books from IDG Books all the time -- and I've been programming for over 20 years.

  Check your local bookstore, or order this and many other books on programming from
  http://www.amazon.com

  To learn more about this book, check the following link at the Amazon web site.
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764505963/qid%3D948988622/104-5160393-7128435