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We will be learning about the basics and how to create a 'Hello World' then Pause program.

Starting Out[]

Creating the program[]

Click the PRGM key then use the right arrow until NEW is highlighted. Press ENTER and you should get a screen like this:

PROGRAM
NAME=

Go ahead and enter any name you want. HELLO would work well. Name must be only A-Z and numbers.

Now for the commands[]

Let's go ahead and put in some commands. We will make a simple Hello World program. Let's press PRGM then press the right arrow once then scroll down to Disp and press ENTER. You should get this:

PROGRAM:HELLO
:Disp

Go ahead and put a quote (above + key). Then put your HELLO WORLD message and finish it off with a quote. Then just press ENTER to start a new line. Press PRGM then scroll down to 8:Pause and press ENTER.

You should now have something like this:

PROGRAM:HELLO
:Disp "HELLO WORLD"
:Pause

Explanation[]

PROGRAM:HELLO          <-- Title
:Disp"HELLO WORLD"     <-- Displays "HELLO WORLD" to the user
:Pause                 <-- Pauses the program until the user presses enter

Result[]

It Will Display this:

HELLO WORLD

Then it will pause on that, disabling all the buttons except ON and ENTER. When the user presses ENTER the program will finish.

Conclusion[]

Way to go, you made your first program!

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