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What does 'screen 13' mean? Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? Also, I doubt many 7 year olds have a Jupyter notebook they refer to as "mine".

by gnud 8y ago

coldtea 8y ago
>What does 'screen 13' mean? Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? See? Way fewer questions than with Python or JS. >Also, I doubt many 7 year olds have a Jupyter notebook they refer to as "mine". That only reinforces what the parent said.
itomato 8y ago
"Look it up in your book, 101 Things To Do With Your Personal Computer"
BeetleB 8y ago
I believe with BASICA or GW-BASIC one wouldn't even need SCREEN 13 I know I started with the ZX Spectrum and I didn't need it. As for the parenthesis, I was content with being told that's just how you make a circle
badsectoracula 8y ago
> Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? Hey, i remember that! I was actually 7 years old when i first encountered the `CIRCLE (xcenter, ycenter), radius` statement (in GWBasic, but it is the same in QBasic) and... it actually made sense to have the coordinates separate. Although probably a large reason it "made sense" was that i wasn't familiar with any other notation. I quickly jumped to Turbo Pascal and i remember the `Circle` procedure in Turbo Pascal (BGI) looking weird with it being `Circle(xcenter, ycenter, radius);` :-P. I do not really remember much from that time (it has been almost three decades since then :-P), but this is something i sometimes think back to because of how each statement had a "customized" syntax that i found making sense (e.g. GW/QBasic has `LINE (x1,y1)-(x2,y2)` and this also made sense because i'm drawing a line between two points and again Turbo Pascal's `Line(x1, y1, x2, y2);` felt weird initially) and this sort of statement-specific syntax being something you do not really see in languages nowadays (or even at the time, AFAIK most other BASICs used `LINE x1,y1,x2,y2` - when they offered graphics functionality at all).

What does 'screen 13' mean? Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? Also, I doubt many 7 year olds have a Jupyter notebook they refer to as "mine".

by gnud 8y ago

What does 'screen 13' mean? Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? Also, I doubt many 7 year olds have a Jupyter notebook they refer to as "mine".

coldtea 8y ago

>What does 'screen 13' mean? Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? See? Way fewer questions than with Python or JS. >Also, I doubt many 7 year olds have a Jupyter notebook they refer to as "mine". That only reinforces what the parent said.

itomato 8y ago

"Look it up in your book, 101 Things To Do With Your Personal Computer"

BeetleB 8y ago

I believe with BASICA or GW-BASIC one wouldn't even need SCREEN 13 I know I started with the ZX Spectrum and I didn't need it. As for the parenthesis, I was content with being told that's just how you make a circle

badsectoracula 8y ago

> Why must I have parenthesis around 50, 50? Hey, i remember that! I was actually 7 years old when i first encountered the `CIRCLE (xcenter, ycenter), radius` statement (in GWBasic, but it is the same in QBasic) and... it actually made sense to have the coordinates separate. Although probably a large reason it "made sense" was that i wasn't familiar with any other notation. I quickly jumped to Turbo Pascal and i remember the `Circle` procedure in Turbo Pascal (BGI) looking weird with it being `Circle(xcenter, ycenter, radius);` :-P. I do not really remember much from that time (it has been almost three decades since then :-P), but this is something i sometimes think back to because of how each statement had a "customized" syntax that i found making sense (e.g. GW/QBasic has `LINE (x1,y1)-(x2,y2)` and this also made sense because i'm drawing a line between two points and again Turbo Pascal's `Line(x1, y1, x2, y2);` felt weird initially) and this sort of statement-specific syntax being something you do not really see in languages nowadays (or even at the time, AFAIK most other BASICs used `LINE x1,y1,x2,y2` - when they offered graphics functionality at all).