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             Requirements:                                                                   you think should be on the paper. 
             A floppy diskette is required for storing programs.                             
                                                                                             
             What you should do:                                                             (6) After each program listing below, write down the ‘output’ or what the 
                                                                                             program put onto the QBasic output screen when you have correctly exe-
             (a) Read each program carefully before you type it in.                          cuted with the program. 
                                                                                              
             (b)                                                                             (7) Each program exercise is an independent program.  Save the pro-
                 Deskcheck.  For each program, write down what you think is going to         gram you type in and start a new program for each exercise. 
             be the output (what the program is going to do) 
                                                               before you type the pro-       
             gram in.                                                                        Program 1: - Our first learning program 
                                                                                              
             Starting QBasic.                                                                      5(00\5XQQLQJ3URJUDP
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             (1) To start QBasic, go to the MS-DOS Command Prompt by selecting                     ¶&ODVV
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             (2) Put your floppy disk into the floppy diskette drive.                              ¶
                                                                                                   
             (3) At the C:\WINDOWS\> Command Prompt, type in:-                                     $JH 
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             to enter the A: drive.  The Command Prompt should now read “A:\>”               Deskcheck 1: 
                                                                                              
             (4) Start QBasic by typing:                                                      
                                                                                              
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             (5) Type in the following programs to practise the use of the QBasic pro-        
             gramming environment and to see the programs work (execute).                    Output 1: 
                                                                                             
             Hint:  When you have finished typing in your program, use the F5 key to          
             execute the program.  You may use the Run menu command if you wish.    
                                                                                              
             Hint:  Read each line carefully, and enter the stuff on the paper, not what      
            Program 2: - The Print Statement                                          
                                                                                     1. Using the HELP Menu, find out the details of how the PRINT statement 
                  5(0$QRWKHUSURJUDPORRNLQJDWWKH35,176WDWHPHQW               works (use the Index) and record it in your notebooks.  (You can copy the 
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                  35,17´:KLFKµ                                                   2. Using the HELP Menu, find out the details of how the Date$ function 
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                  35,17´7KLV/LQHµ                                                 Programming Exercises 
                  35,17´:KHUHLVµ                                             With the following program assignments, make sure that you put in REM 
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                                                                                     (a) Your Name: 
            Deskcheck 2:                                                             (b) Your Class: 
                                                                                     (c) The assignment Number 
                                                                                      
                                                                                     1. Write a program to send the following output to the screen: 
                                                                                      
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                                                                                     2. Write a program to send the following output to the screen, and make 
                                                                                     the screen colours look right. 
                                                                                     This is the colour  
                                                                                      
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            These exercises are designed to help you better understand the QBasic          7KLVOLQHRIWH[WLV5HG
            programming topic.  It is to your advantage to complete all exercises as       7KLVOLQHRIWH[WLV0DJHQWD
            thoroughly as possible (ie. do all the work and things become easier for       7KLVOLQHRIWH[WLV%URZQ
            you.)