Jan. 13, 1998

1.) Introduction to Windows 95.

a.) Boot the system.

b.) Label your floppy (with a sticky label) as your working disk and insert it into the floppy drive. CLICK on A: in My Computer. If the floppy is already formatted but has no files, you will see an empty window. If it is not formatted, Windows will ask if you want to format it. You can go ahead and format it. DON'T FORMAT THE HARD DRIVE!

c.) Close the A: window.

d.) CLICK on the C: icon in My Computer. Find the True folder and CLICK on it. Examine the files in this folder.

e.) Copy a .TRU file to your working disk. Don't use Startup.tru for this.

f.) CLICK on the A: icon in My Computer. You should now see the file that you copied.

g.) Open the file (OPEN WITH) with Notepad. Examine the file.

h.) Print the .TRU file. (CLICK on PRINT in the FILE menu).

i.) Close Notepad.

j.) Do you know how to get a "hard copy" of the directory of True BASIC files on C:?

2.) Introduction to True BASIC.

a.) Boot. See the Startup section of the Windows True BASIC User's Guide.

b.) Examine HELP (briefly). Remember: use CNTL-BREAK to exit help.

c.) Run the program that you copied to your working disk. Describe what it does.

d.) Type in the program given on the board.

e.) Save it on your working disk with the file name AREA.

f.) Run the program. Make a typo in the program (if you didn't already do so) and see what happens when you try to run it.

g.) Print the corrected program. Put this in your lab book.

h.) Print the output of the program. Put this in your lab book.

i.) Get a screen dump of the output on the screen.

j.) Add to the program the calculation of the volume.

k.) Print the listing and the output of the new program.

l.) During the time remaining, try the various editing features given under editing. You can save much time later on by learning some of the advanced features now.

3.) For this week's summary, make a brief summary of theTrue BASIC commands used and what they did.