How do I start Just BASIC?

[chakka35]

A naive question which shames me.
Kind people here told me how to download Just BASIC and I am ploughing through the Tutorial without any problem...

...except that nowhere does it tell me how to start! It gives me instructions as to what to enter when programming but not how to obtain that blank screen for me to start on.

How, please, do I start?

[Old_Geezer]

I've not seen the tutorials but I'd suspect you may need to open up a text editor in order to start writing code. In my day that was the only option but now-a-days it is possible to get applications that give you an environment to create code in. But a text editor should suffice to write code, and save it ready for compiling or interpreting.

[HowardKennitby]

^

Following on from DG's post.

Click on the top left button to create a new file, then start typing.
You can edit existing program code that has been supplied also.

[HowardKennitby]

Or even OG's post

[Old_Geezer]

I understand, you thought the first part was "Daft".

[The Builder]

OG ........ "in my day" ...... haha, me too!
We just wrote into an interpreter , then execute the RUN command and the BASIC code is compiled and run every time.
With a compiler, the code is compiled once only, then the whole routine can run faster since it has already been compiled................ but I may be showing my age :o(

[chakka35]

Thanks, folks. Largely through guesswork I discovered that the way to get cracking is to type [start] and then to press an arrow-shaped icon at top of screen to RUN the program you have compiled.


How odd that a tutorial for beginners does not mention either of these ..may I say... BASIC matters! Thanks again.