Anyone who studies material repetitiously will appreciate Notecards-128, a slick flashcard program to use as a learning aid. Questions and answers on up to 12 subjects can be saved to disk using the Question/Answer Editor. The subjects are then displayed in the menu of the Notecards-128 program itself. When you choose a subject, the questions begin. With each question you cue the answer, which appears with a menu of options. Before you begin, use the ReRUN Menu 128 to copy both programs to a separate workdisk.
Begin by loading FLASHCARDS, the notecard program, from the work disk using the command DLOAD "FLASHCARDS". This program includes three lines you must customize. Begin with line 20. In this line, make S equal the number of subjects (up to 12) you want Notecards 128 to display in its main menu. Lines 830 and 840 are Data statements that contain the subject names as they will appear in the menu. The listing includes sample subjects entered in the proper format. Enter your own subject names in these Data statements (15-character limit for each). Remember, the number of subjects you enter in 830 and 840 must equal the value of S in line 20. The program uses the Data statements to both print the main menu and search the disk directory for your question and answer files. Be sure to save the customized program.
Now you're ready to enter the questions and answers. Load FLASHCARDS 2, the Q/A editor, from the workdisk, using the command RUN "FLASHCARDS 2". This program creates a separate sequential file to store each category of questions. A menu offers three choices: Create (build a new subject file); Add-To (add questions and answers to an existing file); Edit (remove unwanted questions). The first time you run the editor, you will need to create the files that you specified in lines 830 and 840 as described above. Be sure to enter the filenames exactly as they appear in those lines.
The cursor will appear in the question block, awaiting your input. Don't use the comma, colon or cursor keys when entering questions and answers, and don't begin them with a space. I didn't include a word-wrap feature, so, if a word won't fit at the end of a line, enter spaces until you reach the next line. Don't press the return key to advance the line; press the return key only when you've finished typing, because that enters the question or answer. When your last answer has been entered, type an asterisk (*) in the subsequent empty question block and press return again; this will save your input to disk. You can use both upper- and lowercase letters while typing.
I suggest making a "dummy" file to practice entering questions. After a few attempts, you'll have the hang of it. Once you've entered the questions and answers for each subject, it's time to study. Have fun!
