1. What is programming?

2. The only language that computer actually understands is a binary code, like this: 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110010110010101001 001010010001010001010010100100010010010000101111011011101110111010010101101010010010110010 101011110100100101001001001001001001010001001010000100010100100010100101011001011001010010 010100100010100010100101001000100100100001011111010111011101110100101011010100100101100101 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110010110010001010 010010100100010100010100101001000100100100001011111101110111011101001010110101001001100101 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110010110010101001 001010010001010001010010100100010010010000101111110111011101110100101011010100101101011001 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110001101100101010 010010100100010100010100101001000100100100001011111101110111011101001010110100100101100101 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110011101100101010 010010100100010100010100101001000100100100001011111101110111011101001010110100100101100101 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001010110110110010101001 001010010001010001010010100100010010010000101111110111011101110100101011010010111001011001 010111101001001010010010010010010010100010010100001000101001000101001000101100101100101010 010010100100010100010100101001000100100100001011111101110111011101001010110101001001011001 Do you speak English? 01010010011 111010101? Fastgraphics graphsize 1000,1000 color white x=0 y=0 loop: color black: rect 0,0,graphwidth, graphheight gosub shooter if mouseb=1 then x=mousex: y=mousey color red: circle x,y,5 y=y-10 refresh clg goto loop shooter: color blue rect mousex-50, mousey-5, 100, 10 rect mousex-5, mousey-15, 10, 20 return PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES TRANSLATING SOFTWARE 01001101101 10101001001 Learning to program is a bit like learning a foreign language There are high-level languages (the ones that use more English-like commands). Most popular of would be: C, C++, Java, PHP… There are low-level languages(used more for programming machines), like Assembler Most of the languages share A LOT in common. Once you’ve learnt one, it’s quite easy to switch to another one Basic 256 is a high-level language(very English-like) that has been SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to learn how to program

3. Why programming?

4. Programming facts A programming language is basically a language that allows a human being to communicate with a computer The first computer programmer was a female, named Ada Lovelace The first high-level (very close to real English that we use to communicate) programming language was Fortran. invented in 1954 by IBM’s John Backus. The first game was created in 1961 The first virus was created in 1983 Computer programming is one of the fastest growing occupations currently Majors related to computer programming are among the highest paying in colleges and universities The lifestyle we live today with our tablets, and mobile phones wouldn’t be possible without computer programming

5. Open the Basic256 application

6. This is where you write a series of commands called a “program” This is where your program displays text (can be extended) This is where your program displays graphics (can be extended to fullscreen)