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How to use raptor

We know that no all the students from 9th grade from the Instituto Anglo Britanico know about the function of Raptor, they don’t know thar it can help us in many things, like for example we can take any program that we have done, because these programs are programs about the questions that we ask ourselves every day or someday, like for example the most common on the end of the bimester which is going to be my average score, or changing centimeters to inches.

We are working with raptor in my technology class because we are learning that raptor is a program for beings better organized, for example, raptor help us in make diagrams for having a lot of information in an easy way. Raptor is a flowchart-based programming environment, designed specifically to help students visualize their algorithms and avoid syntactic baggage. Raptor programs are created visually and executed visually by tracing the execution through the flowchart. Required syntax is kept to a minimum. Students prefer using flowcharts to express their algorithms, and are more successful creating algorithms using raptor than using a traditional language or writing flowcharts without raptor.

The first button that we learned in raptor was the “output” that functions writing a phrase in quotes (“) this button is a number or text which explains what is the result of the process is written.

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Then, other symbol which we are working with is with the input, this button enters data in the computer, and also when you write the message you will write it in quotes. It is used to call a number or string, while the diagram is running. While the game is running input a symbol assignment is given to the variable value introduced in input.

After the input we use the button assignment, which is used to change the value of the variable and make trades.

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PROGRAM 1

One day our teacher told us to calculate the area of one triangle in raptor and we know how to use the input, output and assignment another time. First I put what this program was about that was calculating the area of a triangle. Then I put 2 inputs to get the information. After that, I put an assignment to do the operation and calculate the area and then I put 2 outputs to display the word “area” and then the other one to show the results.

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PROGRAM 2

Other program which we work with is finding the ratio of a circle, what we do first was write what the program was about, I said that was about finding the ratio of a circle. Then I put 1 input to get the information. And then I put a formula in the assignment for have the ratio of that circle.

PROGRAM 3

In this program we convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius. What we do was insert 1 input giving the instruction of what I want and then I insert an assignment who has the formula for getting Fahrenheit to Celsius. When I already have the formula I insert an output in which I tell that give me the answer of the conversion.

PROGRAM 4

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In this program I calculated the age. First I put an output that said year of birth, then I put an input to get the year. After that I put an assignment to do the process that was the actual year (2015) minus the year that the person was born. After that I just put 2 outputs, one that said your age is and the other one I put the variable so that the result of the operation displays there.

PROGRAM 5

Changing pesos to dollars

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PROGRAM 6

Enter a grade

PROGRAM 7

Enter a final grade

PROGRAMA 8

NAME TO REPEAT

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PROGRAM 9

NUMBERTO REPEAT

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How to use quick basic?

In my technology class my teacher is teaching us how to use quick basic. Quick basic is an Integrated Development Environment (or IDE) and compiler for the basic programming language that was developed by Microsoft. Quick basic runs mainly

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on dos, though there was a short-lived version for Mac OS. It is loosely based on gw-basic but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler in addition to the interpreter. I have learn for what does this help us, and how we can work quickly in this program than in others; because this have results quicklier than other programs; and also is easir to use and to understand.

The CLS you need to add in quick basic before you start, the SLS clean the screen

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• The word COLOR is to add a color but, numbers classifies the colors, in this case the COLOR 5 is pink color.

• LOCATE is for where the text are going to be when you Run your program, you had to put the scales behind the word locate.

• The PRINT word has the function of output as in raptor, is to share the message, the print just give the order, and it will not change, will be always the same.

• The INPUT has the same function as in Raptor program, it will share a massage as a question, where you can answer what you want, and also you have to put the variable with a semicolon before the variable.

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Finally you just have to click on the option of Start, to start running your program, it will be like this one, it will look like this:

The followings are activities that our teacher put us during technology class and for practice and learn more how to manage quick basic.

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For last we use IF to write the formula of the equation.

And we use END IF at the end of the program, when we finish it.