Here I am and there you stand, such
distance in between,
'Cause I am a human and you are a machine.

How can I communicate exactly what I
mean,
When I am a human and you are a machine?

Parlez-vous francais?
Habla espanol?

I am a computer with so much in store,
If you could learn my language or I could
speak in yours,
Then I'd do more work for you than you
could ever dream.

Though you are a human and I am a
machine.

OK., I'll give it a try.

First I hope you'll clear your mind and
listen closely, Scooter.
Forget the words you thought you knew and
start to think computer-
Computers change the letters and the
numerals humans type
to a number code made up of things that
we call bits and bytes.

Bits and bytes?

Think computer Scooter.
A byte is several digits all standing in a
row,
They help present a letter or a number that
you know.
For instance when you write an "A"
This byte is what I see,
And 00110011 is my way of saying "3."

This bit is one little bit of a byte.

I get it-bits and bytes are sort of a
computer's alphabet.
That's right, but ABC and 123's isn't talking.

Hey let's face it
That's why one language that we use is
called computer basic.

Computer basic?
"Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code."
BASIC is a language that most computers
know,
And once you start to speak it,
communications flow.
You use words and phrases-I use bits and
bytes instead,
and BASIC lets us understand what the
other one just said.
BASIC is a language that I can talk in
human and you can talk in machine and we
can understand each other.

Yes, BASIC is the language you'll be using
to feed in my data.
It's also the language all my programs or
software are written in.
Data, programs, software?

Data is information.
Data means the facts.
It's everything you store in me
For solving problems back.
A program means directions
That tell me what to do,
HOW to analyze my data
And find answers just for you.
And software is just another name for all
the instructions of programs that you feed
me.

Here I am and there you stand, we're closer
than we seem.
Though I am a human and you are a
machine.
I'll get a book on BASIC and as quickly as I
can
I will talk computer, and you will
understand.

We didn't do too badly, did we Mr. Chips?

It was pretty amazing, Scooter.