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Scientist Factory's Basus

A programming environment for absolute beginners that want to learn real computer programming.

Java 1.5 or newer required, 1.6 or newer recommended: If you don't have Java already, plase download your free copy from Sun and install it before continuing.

To run Basus, you need to download basus-1.0.3.jar and run it using Java. If double-clicking the downloaded file doesn't start it, try opening a command prompt in the directory containing the file and run the following command:

    java -jar basus-1.0.3.jar

If that still doesn't work, plase send an E-mail to Sverre for support.

Hints

• The Examples menu contains several programs. Pick one, and click Run or press F11 to see what the program does.
• Basus programs may be terminated by pressing F12.
• Help is available for language constructs. Click on a word in the program text and press F1.

Examples

Selected Basus programs running as applets (again, Java required):

• breakout.bus
• strekmann.bus
• spaceWar.bus
• vonKoch.bus
• mandelbrot.bus
• jon-ball.bus
• kjetil-gravity.bus
• rotatingWorld.bus
• spaceShuttleSprite.bus

Feel free to send your own programs to Sverre to have them listed here.

Basus version history

• See CHANGES.txt if you want to known which changes have been made between versions.
• See TODO.txt for a list of possible future enhancements.