BASIC Programming Language

ELEMENTS OF QBASIC

Every programming language consists of some basic elements which are required to make a program. The element required to construct a BASIC program consists of a set of characters, keywords, constants, variables, operators and expressions.

CHARACTER SET

The BASIC Character Set consists of alphabets (both small and capital), numbers (0 to 9) and special characters. These special characters have their own meaning and function.

KEYWORD

Keywords are those words which have special meanings in BASIC. Keywords are statements or Reserved Words, commands, and names of operators. Some reserved words are CLS, REM, INPUT, LET, PRINT, FOR, DO, SELECT, MID$, ASC, SQR, LEN, LEFT$, TIME$ and INT.

CONSTANTS

Constants are the data or the values in a program that cannot be changed during the program execution. The data may be a letter, words, numbers, or special characters. Types of constant are

Sting Constant
Numeric Constant

VARIABLE

A variable is an entity that stores data needed to be used in a program. Each program defines different number of variables.

There are mainly two types of variables. They are:

String Variable
Numeric Variable

OPERATOR

Operators are symbols that indicate the type of operation BASIC has to perform on the data

There are four types of operators in BASIC. They are Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators and Sting Operator.

QBasic’s Math Operators

OBJECTIVES:

Using QBasic Math Operators
Use Order of Operation
Store the results of calculations in variables
Print the result of calculations

A Math Operator is a symbol use for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or other calculations

The QBasic math operators and their meanings.

Symbol	Meaning

*	Multiplication
/	Division
+	Addition
–	Subtraction
^	Exponentiation
\	Integer division
MOD	Modulus

Example: (95/2=47.5)

Formula	Results
8\2	4
95\2	47
95.0\2	47
95\2.0	47
95.0\2.0	47

ELEMENTS OF QBASIC

QBasic’s Math Operators

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