How did u learn qbasic?

[mofu]

Just wondering how you guys learnt qbasic?

[na_th_an]

Help File: Well, that's not completely true. I learnt BASIC when I was a child in my ol' 8 bit computer (Sinclair ZX Spectrum) using a funny book called "BASIC para niños" (BASIC for children). When I switched to PC/QBasic I knew some basics and I just looked for new commands and new ways to do things. Then I got ABC code and looked other people's code, and that way I learned 100x what I knew in that time.

Then I began researching lots of stuff concerning QB, and I teached myself in the deep topics just "trying and being wrong"

[relsoft]

All of the above.

Amen :*)

[red_Marvin]

Dad showed me Things like

• PRINT
  CLS
  IF
  
  etc
  

when i was 12-13 (I don't remember)
then i've learned myself by studying the help file
reading tutorials etc

if you want to spare yourself my life story skip this below
(But I'm not very great though, My first game came a couple of
months ago (Connect X) I think it's booring but somebody
on this forum said "Your first ten games will be bad"
Currently I'm working on my RMDS)

I summar y like this I'm 15, started about 2-3 years ago,
bad at programming, and already a guru on this forum...
...Somebody Has too much time

[na_th_an]

I don't have time at all now with college and life, but I always find 5 minutes to write here It's always nice to talk to you.

[aetherfox]

Hmmm, qb? I GW-Basic at school, real basic stuff like print, input, let, cls

(this is long...and it tells my whole programming history)

then i started to think about how to make games (u must comprehend i did not know how games are programmed AT ALL...i thought it was cartoon style, everything is predrawn...i was about 10)

about 1 year later i started on C++...didnt get anyway...i learned until pointers, found it too hard, and quit...i moved to web programming

in one week i had learned html and basic javascript, and by then end of the month i had mastered the basics of flash

at 12, i tried c++ again...i found it a little easier, but then i came acroos qb in my win95 folder (i was little more explorative by now)...i found qbasic11...i made some very basic stuff, and then found it annoying that i couldnt compile, so i got qb45 off my uncle 1 week later.

in about half a year i could move a sprite across the screen...

1 year later i tried windows gaming...VB was good choice, so i started learning that...i made good progress cuz i new alot of the coding from qb...but then directx was too hard and not worth the effort so i went into gaming packages...loved Game Maker, and learned it fully...including GML

as usual, i went back to qb and expanded my knowledge some more, having found a basic book in school

if i got the dates correct, i should have been 14 now, and so i came across qbnews...which i adored and loved...and wildcard was like my idol for having created this site...at the time there was a posting for admin help, i offered and good ol wildcard accepted...

now, about 1.5 yrs after THAT, i am admin again...talking to u guys...

now, i have learend more advanced qb, with asm, more c++, php, html, jscript, css, basic pascal, etc

damn i have alot of time...no i dont..i gotta do maths hwk :oops: hehehehe cya

[na_th_an]

And you have to do some reviews

[aetherfox]

:roll: :oops: wasn' me

[_Bill_]

Boy it has been a while!

I first started on GW-BASIC and BASICA and learned most of the commands from the GW manual and then found QB on an old 286 computer and went on from there.

[Neo]

Learnt it myself... ;-)