Writing Own
Writing your own programs:

Let's write a short BASIC program.  Pull down the File menu and select New File.

If you are ask if you want to save changes, click on No.  Now you will see this:

Now let's type a short program into our editor window.  Type carefully.

    ' draw some ellipses

    open "Ellipses" for graphics as #1
      print #1, "down"
      print #1, "place 130 130"
      for x = 30 to 230 step 10
        print #1, "ellipse "; x ; " "; 260 - x
      next x
      print #1, "flush"
      input r$
    close #1

Now pull down the Run menu and select Run, as shown.

The program will run as seen below.  Now close both of the new windows.