The Real Basics of Programming With REALbasic®
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THE "Really Basic REALbasic®" MISSION is to introduce beginners to programming with REALbasic® through pictures and simple examples. The whole point is to get you up and programming as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

Getting Started With REALbasic®: 5 steps to get you started with REALbasic®

1. What Is A Program Anyway? Discover the 3 main components of a program.

2. What's an OOP? Understand the Object Oriented Programming concept.

3. The IDE: Finding your way around the Integrated Development Environment (REALbasic®'s windows)

4. A First Project: Step-by-step instructions on writing a simple program that illustrates concepts discussed in items 1, 2, and 3 above.

5. Example Projects: Download these projects, see what they do, and learn how they work by examining the comprehensively annotated code.

Topical Topics: Visit the Topic Achives or view the Latest Topics: Dot Notation, Parameters, Methods and Functions, Global Properties and Methods, Custom Classes, Arrays, Data Structures, Modules vs Classes, Databases, Control Arrays

Glossary: Find out what terms like: property, function, class, parameter, etc. really mean.

REALbasic® Controls: What are they?

Data Types: What are they?

Learning Resources: Places to go for more on learning to use REALbasic® (books, websites, software)

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