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Teach Yourself BASIC on the Bee book - ChickenMan - 06-07-2025
Thanks to CraigM for making this book available to be scanned. Scanned at 300dpi and converted to a searchable PDF as usual. Its A4 in size and 104 pages long.
Written by Stephen Ford in 1983. From the book -
This book is not an exercise in grammar, nor is it a book on how a computer operates - it is wholly and solely how to use and program the Bee in Microworld Basic.
The format that I have chosen to take is to take the novice from turning the computer on, through all the commands, whilst learning hoW to join the sections as we go to form a full program.
CONTENTS
SECTION ONE - Rem, Print, End, New, Edit and List.
SECTION TWO - Let, Cls, Goto, Input and Lock
SECTION THREE - ABS, Int, RND, If/then, For/next, Gosub/return
SECTION FOUR - Multi statement lines, Curs, Tab, Underline, Inverse, String Variable, If, And, Or, Not, Normal
SECTION FIVE - Left, Right and Mid$ Simulation, Len, ASC, CHR, STRS, Val, On/goto, On/gosub and Concatenate.
SECTION SIX - Read/data, Restore, Dim Array, Strs, Clear, Formatting, Zone
SECTION SEVEN - Lores, Reset, Set, Point, Plot, Hires, PCG and Play
SECTION EIGHT - Save, Load, Save Data, Load Data, In#, Out#, Lprint and Llist
SECTION NINE - Flow Charting
SECTION TEN - Auto, Renum, Fre and Speed
APPENDIX
INDEX
Essential reading for getting started in programming with Microworld Basic on the Microbee with lots of tried and tested examples of the various commands. Doesn't include how to include Assembler code in a Basic program or cover the Colour and Hires2 commands.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Documentation/Books folder we placed
teach_yourself_basic_on_the_bee.pdf