Lab # 3 Basic Programming
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Lab # 3 Basic ProgrammingHand back DIR/Text file homework…explain late penalty—hand in within 2 weeks of due date. 10% off per week (up to 20% off), then, no credit. Remind students to staple old homework when redoing an assignment—they get ONE week to redo. Remind students to keep old graded assignments. Talk about answering e-mail—where you are to date. Show students McAffe. Show students Virus Information from McAffe, McAffe, ViruScan, Tools, Virus Information, and have hem scan all their diskettes in a:--All RemovableDisks. Look at Virus information: ToolsInfo. Remind students to scan their diskettes once a week. Every time they use them at the end of the semester. Never hand in a diskette to your instructor with a virus—makes the instructor angry and the student earns a zero for the lab. Have students check out virus encyclopedia. Show students anti-virus software from CIT: http://cit.uvm.edu/antivirus. Basic Programming: Briefly explain lab and determine how many students have the two qbasic files: qbasic.exe and qbasic.hlp. Pass out disks to those students who don’t have them. Have students copy files to a temp folder on hard drive, then copy to their diskette. OR Have students bring disks to instructor’s machine where they will click and drag two files to their diskette: www://uvm.edu/~jleonard/cdae85 scroll down to qgbasic.exe and qbasic.hlp Click on to save. Explain (use a diagram) the downloading, extracting and copying process they went through to get the two qbasic files. Why QBASIC lab? READ FROM LAB MANUAL ON WEB. All applications are products of programming. A creative assignment---for different learning styles. Understand how the computer works. Working closer to how the computer actually operates than today’s sophisticated application programs. Start lab by showing some qbasic examples. Begin lecture by talking about the differences between Applications software and Programming Languages. Ask students to list each. Programming languages: Basic, C, Fortran, Cobol, Ada, Pascal...programming languages are the tools used to write application software. Contrary to popular opinion computers do not understand any programming language. They only understand BINARY. Computers are dumb (they only understand zero and one), but they’re FAST. Have students run qbasic.exe: In Windows Explorer highlight qbasic.exe on a:. Double click on a: qbasic to run Qbasic. SHOW SOME FORMER CDAE 85 STUDENT PROGRAMS @ BEGINNING AND END OF CLASS Draw the screen with 640 pixels across and 350 down… FOLLOW THE FORMULA to create a circle, etc. Ask students what would you do to make the circle bigger, to move it...etc. Commands to cover: COLOR, PAINT, CLS, SLEEP, SOUND. Tell about redrawing object in background color to make it disappear by drawing it again in another location. ASSIGNMENT: BE CREATIVE. This lab is worth more than the first two. Plan to spewnd ten hours on this assignment, in segments, not all at one time. This is lab to tell a story in pictures. NO VIOLENCE or PORNOGRAPHY. BE CREATIVE. I t helps to draw on paper first, what you want to show. Don’t just modify this program—that’s a D grade. Some students never complete this lab. Get help, use the qbasic book in back of Morrill lab, hand in something. Start right away—do a little bit every day.. Don’t save for the last minute. Scan your diskette for viruses before handing in.. ZERO points if you give your instructor a virus! Download 8.35 Kb. Share with your friends:
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