> Sford wiki > Sford Basic tutorial

I wrote this tutorial for my 14-year-old daughter to teach her the fundamental concepts behind programming. It is intended to be used with the Chipmunk BASIC system for the Mac (see http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ for free download), although there are only a very few places where it matters (stopping an infinite loop, the 'save' command).

This tutorial is NOT intended for self-study. I expect a human teacher to be there, stepping the student through the exercises, explaining the results.

It is in 4 sections:

• Sford Basic tutorial 1 - the simple BASIC editor, list, run
• Sford Basic tutorial 2 - arithmetic calculations, new, print
• Sford Basic tutorial 3 - variables, input, goto
• Sford Basic tutorial 4 - if, stop, renum

Note that I do not go into arrays or gosub or anything like that. For more-advanced programming, a different language should be used (maybe Pascal, maybe Java, maybe assembly).