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Old VHS videotape (released in 1984) about using & programming the popular ZX Spectrum personal computer.
David Redclift, a leading programmer introduces you to Basic Programming on the Sinclair Spectrum. From the fundamentals of the machine, screen and keyboard to the construction of a basic program. He will also show you how data entered at the keyboard can be translated into the text and graphics on the screen.
4 basic programs are included - TEST, WEIGHT, SCENE, GRAPH -
wich can be transferred onto your computer as follows:
1. Connect the line out or headphone socket of the video recorder to the mic in socket of the tape recorder.
2. Run the video tape to the appropiate program "transfer" shown on your video tape and freeze frame.
3. Start your tape recorder
4. Start your video recorder and record the program onto a blank computer casette.
5. Switch off the casette recorder when the video-tape diagram and high pitched tone stop.
6. To load the recorded program follow the instuctions given in the user guide provided with your computer.
- Index of Contents -
First Session:
- What you need to know - What the machine is capable of - Explanation and examples
- The Keys - The Cursor - The Screen - How to get each key functioning - Enter key
- Line numbers - The beginning of your first program - Using the line numbers in your program - Run key - Basic statements and their meaning in a program - Correcting mistakes - Editing
- A PROGRAM FOR YOU TO COPY AND PRACTISE.
- Transfer of the program from video to your computer.
Second Session:
- Explaining the program - 'THE BODY WEIGHT CALCULATOR'
- Analyzing the program - How it was writen - Looking at the statements used
- Learning about why these statements were used and their functions
- Transfer of the program from video to your computer.
Third Session:
- Practice session on this program - An introduction to graphics on the ZX Spectrum
- How to produce graphics - Using PLOT, DRAW, CIRCLE - Screen Size - Explanation
- Examples - Subroutines - Randomize - RND - What are their functions - What do they mean - Examples of them in use - Transfer of a program for you to use and practise with
- Final practice session.
8 сен 2012
