Organize and Share Your Code Effortlessly: Exploring the Liberty BASIC Lesson Browser

 The Liberty BASIC Lesson Browser is a super helpful tool for anyone using Liberty BASIC, a really user-friendly programming language. This browser isn't just for learning; it's amazing for keeping all your coding projects neat and organized.

When you use the Lesson Browser, you can easily find your way around lots of programming lessons. But the best part is how it lets you keep all your own codes and programs in one place. Whether you’re working on a small project or something big, this browser makes it easy to save your work, put it into categories, and find it again whenever you need it. This is super handy because it helps you see how much you’ve learned and find old projects quickly.

If you like sharing what you make with others, the Lesson Browser is great for that too. You can show your codes and programs to other people who use Liberty BASIC. This is not only fun but also a great way to get new ideas and make your work even better.

For educators this tool is super useful because it makes it really easy to build educational materials, and for students it provides a great way to keep all your work organized.

So, in short, the Liberty BASIC Lesson Browser is more than just a way to learn programming. It’s a really useful tool for keeping your own coding projects organized and sharing them with friends and other coders. It's a must-have for anyone using Liberty BASIC.

Watch a demo of the Lesson Browser!

The Enduring Appeal of BASIC

 Back in 2018 I started the BASIC Programming Language group on Facebook.  Since then it has grown to more than 7000 members, and the posting has only accelerated.  What I find really interesting about it is that the membership suddenly began to grow very rapidly in the last few months, more than doubling.

When a member wants to post for the first time there are a couple of questions that they need to answer, and I approve or deny the right to post based on the answers, the other groups the person belongs to and I also factor any pending comments.  The overwhelming majority of the requests to post are approved.

One of the questions is, what is your first BASIC or your preferred version of BASIC?

It becomes clear that there are so many different versions of BASIC that people use and have used.  I find this to be very impressive.  Additionally there are a bunch of people in the group who have written their own versions of BASIC, including myself (Liberty BASIC).  This sort of thing is continually ongoing.  BASIC is not a dead language at all!

Another important thing is that there are people of all ages all over the world who are still using and learning BASIC.

New Liberty BASIC Projects Area

I've created a new area on the Liberty BASIC Community Forum over at Proboards here:

    http://libertybasiccom.proboards.com/board/20/community-projects

Here is copy from a post I made there about the purpose of the board:

I created this area of the board for a specific reason.  I want to create libraries free code for specific purposes and also some programs for the specific purpose of promoting Liberty BASIC.

So, for example:

• A game framework and some examples. Side scrolling games, platform games, etc., with sprites, sound effects, background music that can use the keyboard, mouse, or joystick. etc.
• A business application including forms, an ODBC database, printed output (tables, forms, bar charts, histograms)
• A graphical editor - a mini CAD program or similar
• Hardware interfacing - a monitor program for experimenting with serial devices

Suggestions welcome.  Is there any particular thing you know how to do well, or that you would like to be able to do in Liberty BASIC?  Let's make these things into actual reusable code  that people can use, and that can be included with Liberty BASIC.

I will also blog here about these projects as they progress.

More on getting started with Liberty BASIC

In addition to the resources I mentioned the other day, please do not overlook our great online community of users.

There are two large forums where you can learn a lot from friendly, knowledgeable people about all kinds of things.

First the forum at Conforms.  This great forum is organized by topic, which is really nice.  Here's the link:

   http://libertybasic.conforums.com

Secondly there is Yahoo Groups!  What's nice about this site is that you can subscribe to get emails, and you post to the group by email.  Here is the link:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertybasic

People do amazing things with Liberty BASIC, and these are the places where these people hang out.

See you there!

Doing pixel manipulation in Liberty BASIC

One of the members of the Liberty BASIC community posted a cool example of doing pixel graphics in Liberty BASIC.  It is instructive because it is short and it shows how to effectively use Windows API calls to work with graphical images.

Here is a link to the post including a code example and a screenshot of the output.

  http://libertybasic.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=LB3&action=display&num=1451162343