
OPTIONS= Display, Help Path, Syntax Checking. DEBUG= Step, Procedure Step, Trace On, Toggle Breakpoint, Clear All Breakpoints breakpoints, Set Next Statement. EDIT= Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, New Sub, New Function. These menus again have some sub commands such as FILE= New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, Exit. The Menu Bar consists of list of commands like File, View, Search, Run, Debug, Options and Help. The editor provides all the facilities to write programs and editing them. QBASIC editor is the window where you write programs.
Press Esc key to get QBASIC Editor Screen. At C:\ QBASIC> prompt, type qbasic and press Enter key. At C:\> prompt, type CD QBASIC and press Enter key. To move to the root directory, at DOS prompt, type CD\ and press Enter key.
Point to All Programs and then Accessories. Normally these files are found in a folder named ‘QBASIC’ which is in drive C. QBASIC programming language consists of two files: QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP. QBASIC interprets a statement of a program at a time to CPU. QBASIC allows you to break lengthy programs into modules.į. QBASIC keeps the same variable name used in a program to identical form.Į. QBASIC does not use technical terminology (word) to write statements.Ĭ. Some features of QBASIC are listed below:Ī. In the QBASIC Editor you can write, edit, run and debug programs. QBASIC Editor provides all the facilities that are required for programs. QBASIC Editor checks syntax errors and capitalizes QBASIC reversed words. For this reason, QBASIC is also called an Interpreter. After the execution of the previous statement, it converts another statement of the program into machine code and so on. QBASIC converts one statement of a program into machine code at a time. QBASIC provides working area to write programs and QBASIC has its own Interpreter. The programs written in QBASIC need to be converted into machine codes. BASIC uses English like words and mathematical symbols to write programs. QBASIC is a high level programming language that allows us to write programs. Some other versions of BASIC are GWBASIC, Quick BASIC, Turbo BASIC, Visual BASIC, etc. There are many different versions of BASIC. BASIC gives clear ideas to the learners about the user of logical expressions, the way of writing instructions and executions of the instructions. BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is one of the popular high level programming language.