New Lessons for new work environment

// Below is Lesson 1 with changes for ATOM environment.

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// Welcome to your AOZ Studio Lesson 1

// You see these two slash (//) -> that means that anything afterwards (all marked in green) is a comment.

// After the // you can put remarks, notes, explanations, not program instructions

// So we are ready, let's start!

// The Print instruction---------------------------------------------

Print "Hello. Go back to program code by clicking on main.aoz above this window"

// **Click on the "Run in ATOM" button on the top center of the window, it looks like an atom or flower

// Wait about 10 seconds for the compilation to occur, this is the process to transform your

// program made of AOZ Instructions (easy to understand for humans) into executable instructions

// (that your computer may understand and Run)

// You should have seen the Hello word in your automatically opened web browser.

// So... yes, you are a programmer!

// Great, now one step further. Try putting your own words, or "string" between the speech

// marks (instead of Hello) and

// **Press Run in Atom again to update the display

End

// **Now let's continue the lesson. First remove the End instruction above, by putting 2 slashes

// in front of it.

// That will allow the following instructions to be executed as well:

// The Locate instruction---------------------------------------------

// Locate tells the program where to Print the string on the screen.

Locate 5,1

Print "Printed at 5,1"

End

// The numbers after "Locate" tell the computer the number of text columns, down and across;

// in this case 5 across and 1 down from the top

// **Press the Press 'Run in Atom (button)

// **Now, delete the End instruction above, so the following instructions will be executed as well:

// The Input instruction----------------------------------------------

// Input allows you to ask for information and use it in the program

Input "What is your name?";name$

Print name$

Input "How old are you?";age

Print "Your age is: ";age

End

// The first "Input" asks for a name and that is a string so the string variable name$ was

// chosen in this example (We might have used MyName$ or rabbit$ or ....)

// It makes sense to use a word that means something to you the programmer.

// The second use of "Input"asks for a number and stores it in the variable "age".

// Notice how the semi-colon, (;) allows us to combine the printed "Your age is: " to the variable

// stored in age

// **Press the RUN in Atom (button)

// **Now, remove the End instruction above, so the following instructions will be executed as well:

// The Pen instruction and the For-to-Next instruction---------------

// Pen instruction sets the colour of the text.

// For-to-Next instruction is a combined one to create a loop of automatically repetitive instructions

For n = 1 to 20

Pen n

Locate 40,n

Print name$ + " is great!"

Wait 0.5

End

// This above code will run through many colours for the on-sreen text, the variable n will

// step by step increase from 1 to 20

// The first time in the For-to-Next loop n=1 and therefore will execute:

// - the instruction Pen 1 that will display that color 1 (white)

// - set the position of Locate 40 (width), 1 (height)

// - then will do the Print

// when the program execute the Next Instruction, like a loop it will starts back on the line: For n= 1 to 20

// while increasing the value of n

// So now n=2 and therefore Pen 2 and Locate 40,2 this will move the next Print one line below (line 2)

// with the next color (2) etc, etc, up to... n=20, this will be the end of the For...to...Next loop

// and the program will continue the instructions after the word "Next"

// If you do not get it right away, no worries. You can try with a simple program only with For-to-Next

// loop with a Print inside like:

// For n = 1 to 5

// Print n

// Next

// Note that the Wait instruction is pausing the program for the value here of 0.2 seconds, so you can see the Print

// one by one. Do not worry about understanding all of it. Have fun trying to change text and values.

// OK lot of explanations, so now let see what it does.

// **Press the RUN in ATOM (button)

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// Well, congratulations! That's the end of lesson 1. You are ready to move to Lesson 2 :)