Chapter 8. Script Files

I started learning about computers and programming by playing with small BASIC programs on an Apple II-compatible computer. After making my first steps in the language and the environment, I started typing up programs that I found in magazines or books. Most often, those were little games that I could type in an hour or so and, if I had not made a mistake while doing that, I could play the game for some time afterward. I typed BASIC code without a text editor or anything like that; I entered raw code at the console. My biggest problem in doing that was that I did not know how to save the program to a floppy disk, so that I could run it later. I had to learn how to do that in order to build larger programs.

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