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Basics of MS Small Basic

Basics of Small Basic


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EXPLAIN THE BASICS OF SMALL BASIC
DEMONSTRATE THE PARTS OF SMALL BASIC
Basics of MS Small Basic
Microsoft Small Basic has been developed by Microsoft Corporation.

It is one of the many versions of BASIC.

BASIC stands for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

The language is simple and easy to learn and is intended for


beginners in programming.

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A program is a sequence of instructions written to perform a
particular task .
It instructs the computer what to do and how to do it .

A line in a program is called a statement and every statement


instructs the computer to do something.

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INSTALL SMALL BASIC
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Basics of Small Basic
Steps to start Small Basic are:

1 Click Start

2 Click All Programs

3 Click Small Basic

4 Click Microsoft Small Basic

The Small Basic main screen appears

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The components of the main window of Small Basic are:

Title Bar: The title bar gives you information about the
program you are working on

Toolbar: The
toolbar has
many
commands
such as
New, Open,
Help Area: It
Save, Save
displays hints
As, Run,
and tips while
Cut, Copy,
you write the
Paste, etc.
program code in
Editor: It is a pane the editor
where the Small
Basic programs
are written

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Starting a New Small Basic Program
Steps to start writing a new program in Small Basic are:
1
1
Click the New button in the File
group on the toolbar

A blank editor appears on which you


can start writing the program

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Opening a Small Basic Program
Steps to open an already saved Small Basic program are:

1
1
Click the Open button in the File
group to display the Open dialog
box

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Steps to open an already saved Small Basic program are:

2
2
Select the drive and the folder,
select the file, and click the Open
button to open the program

The Open dialog box appears

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Saving a Small Basic Program
There are two buttons in the toolbar to save the program:

Save Save As

Steps to save a program created for the first time are: 1


1
Click the Save button

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Then,
The Save As dialog box appears
2
2 Select the drive and then the
folder where you want to save
your Small Basic program

3 Type the name of the program in


the File name text box 3 4

4
Click the Save button

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The extension of the file saved is .sb

When you make changes to this program, clicking the Save button will
automatically save the modified program with the same name in the same
folder.

If you want to assign a different name to a file or create a different folder for
the modified program, use the Save As button.

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QUIZ
BASIC stands for ________________________________.
A __________ is a sequence of instructions written to perform a
particular task .
A line in a program is called a __________.
The extension of the file saved is ______________.

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