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!BasicProg/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
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| Filename: | !BasicProg/!Help |
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| File size: | 0342 bytes |
| Load address: | FFFFFF45 |
| Exec address: | 31275092 |
File contents
Back to Basics: Learning to Program in Basic By Mark Moxon Run this option to open a directory containing the example Basic programs from the ninth part of the series on learning to program in Basic. Listing1 demonstrates passing of arrays to procedures and functions. Run the program, and enter a number between 1 and 5. This will print out a full name consisting of a first name and a surname, corresponding to the names set up in the two arrays firstname$ and surname$. Press Esc to return to the desktop. Listing2 shows how recursion works. Run the program and enter any word at the prompt. All the possible anagrams of that word will be shown (including anagrams which aren't real words) followed by the total number of anagrams. For more information, see the article on page 95 in the magazine. � Copyright Acorn User 1994
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