Howdy! I'm new to coding in BASIC (and coding in general) so to try it out, I put together a small number guessing game. I got so excited seeing it actually work after a few errors and cleaning up the code. I wanted to share that feeling, so I'm gonna post the code and you'll have to type it out like the old books they sold for computers that ran BASIC. I'm probably one of the least experienced programmers in this whole community, so if there's any improvements to the code that I missed, please feel free to let me know. Good luck!
10 CLS
20 LET X=INT(RND(1)*99)+1:LET T=5
30 PRINT "PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 100."
32 PRINT "YOU HAVE 5 TRIES."
40 IF T=0 THEN PRINT "YOU LOSE. THE NUMBER WAS"X:PRINT:GOTO 60
50 T=T-1:INPUT G
52 IF G<X THEN PRINT "TOO LOW. YOU HAVE"T"TRIES LEFT.":GOTO 40
54 IF G>X THEN PRINT "TOO HIGH. YOU HAVE"T"TRIES LEFT.":GOTO 40
56 IF G=X THEN PRINT"YOU WIN!"
60 PRINT "DO YOU WANT TO PLAY AGAIN?"
62 PRINT " 1 FOR YES 0 FOR NO"
70 INPUT W
72 IF W=1 THEN 20
74 IF W=0 THEN PRINT "GOODBYE"
Number Guess
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This section is for testing Commander X16 programs and programs related to the CX16 for other platforms (compilers, data conversion tools, etc.)
Feel free to post works in progress, test builds, prototypes, and tech demos.
Finished works go in the Downloads category. Don't forget to add a hashtag (#) and the version number your program was meant to run on. (ie: #R41).
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ahenry3068
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Re: Number Guess
I remember the feeling of code working right the first time. 
Good job for a first program. We don't have to type it all in
You can cut and paste. Select the code. Copy it then
Ctrl-V into the emulator.
Good job for a first program. We don't have to type it all in
You can cut and paste. Select the code. Copy it then
Ctrl-V into the emulator.
Re: Number Guess
Yup. That's how it works. You struggle and try and test, then when the results are off by one you realize that you need to test for 0 if your desired test range starts at 5 and you're pre-testing the fail condition... then you do it again and again and when it's finally right? Then you feel like King Kong on Cocaine.
Gratz and welcome to a larger world.
Oh, and there's a joke in programming: "I wrote code and it didn't work. Why? Then I wrote code and and it worked! WHY?"
The joke is that you can't know why it works until you know why it didn't work, you have to iteratively figure out the parts that don't work, fixing them one by one... before you finally know why it DOES work.
Gratz and welcome to a larger world.
Oh, and there's a joke in programming: "I wrote code and it didn't work. Why? Then I wrote code and and it worked! WHY?"
The joke is that you can't know why it works until you know why it didn't work, you have to iteratively figure out the parts that don't work, fixing them one by one... before you finally know why it DOES work.