BASIC Tutorial Notes

Purpose: Develop a simple course in Japanese to teach the kids BASIC
programming. 

* Materials to develop

** Short command reference/tutorial
** Japanize a few sample programs

* Dartmouth BASIC manual 

"An Example": statement numbers, reserve words, READ, DATA, LET,
IF-THEN, PRINT, GO TO, END.

"Expressions, Numbers, and Variables": +-*/^(), order of operation,
variables, formulae, standard functions (SIN(), COS(), TAN(), ATN(),
EXP(), ABS(), LOG(), SQR()).

"Loops": With IF-THEN, GO TO, FOR, NEXT

"Summary of Elementary BASIC Statements": LET, READ and DATA, PRINT,
GO TO and IF-THEN, FOR and NEXT, END

** More Advanced BASIC

"More About PRINT": Tabular formatting with comma.

"Lists and Tables": Arrays, DIM.

"Functions and Subroutines": Functions INT() and RND(), DEF, GOSUB,
RETURN. GOSUB may not be used inside a subroutine.

"Some Ideas for More Advanced Programmers": REM, STOP, rounding
errors, debugging