BR Tutorial

This BR tutorial was designed for absolute beginners. It walks you through programming basics in simple steps with plenty of examples and self-guided practice. The "Intermediate" level tutorial is also now available, Tutorial 2.

Update: There is also a Fast Track Tutorial for those who already have a basic knowledge of programming.

For visual learners, there is a youtube channel devoted to BR, and includes demonstrations of the lessons in these written tutorials.

Basics

1. Introduction

2. Basic Commands

• Print
• DIR and LOAD
• SAVE, REPLACE, DEL, and FREE
• Using External Editors

3. More Operating and Programming Fundamentals

• INPUT & LET Statements
• GO Statement
• Comments
• Variables

4. Constants and Variables

5. GOTO, IF, and Other Basic Statements

6. Debugging Features

• LIST
• RUN Step and Trace

7. Unformatted and Formatted Printing

8. FOR/NEXT, ON GOTO and DO

9. Organizing Folders and Programs

10. Arrays

11. Full Screen Processing, Using Print Fields and Input Fields

• Statements
• Multiple Field Processing
• Control and Display Attributes

12. Procedures

13. Introduction to File Processing

14. The SEQUENTIAL method of access with INTERNAL files

15. The RELATIVE method of access for INTERNAL files

16. Keyed File Processing

17. Display Files

18. Error Handling and Recovery

• EXIT Statement
• ON ERROR Statement

Solutions to Exercises