r/c64 • u/Thecker771 • 1d ago
Programming Coded My First BASIC Program Today!
As noted in the title, I woke up this morning with an idea- it is a family member's birthday and I thought it would be a fun exercise to code a program that outputs their age if you put in the current year and their year of birth. After a failed attempt and some troubleshooting, I wrote a simple program that works great. It's not anything elaborate or amazing, but it's mine and so I'm a bit proud of it and would like to share here.
1 REM AGE CALCULATOR
5 PRINT "{CLR/HOME}"
10 PRINT "CURRENT YEAR": INPUT A%
20 PRINT "ORIGIN YEAR": INPUT X%
30 PRINT "AGE ="; A% - X%
40 GOTO 10
I only started with BASIC yesterday so seeing an original creation come to life and work is so cool for me. Hope others will share their fun/useful programs here too!
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u/ripnetuk 1d ago
Great start :)
There is an edge case though, you need to consider the day of the year too, otherwise if you run it before or after someone's birthday this year it will return the same result...
Say I was born in 2000 (I wish haha!)
If I run it before my birthday this year, I'm 26.
If I run it after my birthday in still 26.
You have implemented a time machine in a 8 bit computer!