I feel like I'm missing out on a big chunk of BASIC without knowing how to use DATA. So tell me what is it used for and how.

I'm stil new to smilebasic but I think I understand the data now what do you want to know?

DATA is used whan you have big amounts of data to store, in a linear way. first, place a goto label: @ANYTHING then you place DATA statements DATA 34, "Thomas", "Cake" DATA can have any amount of variables in one command then, to retrieve the data:

use RESTORE @ANYTHING then just a simple command to retrieve the data READ AGE, NAME$, FOOD$ when you use this with multiple DATAs, the read command automatically goes one data forward

so, if you want to store a map made out of tiles with IDs, use this code: DIM M(4,4) @MAP DATA 1,2,2,3 DATA 2,2,3,3 DATA 1,1,2,3 DATA 1,1,1,2 then RESTORE @MAP FOR I=0 TO 3 READ M(0,I), M(1,I), M(2,I), M(3,I) NEXT now you have converted the DATA block into an array

I'm a bit confused, but that helped ALOT. And you what they say don't learn to code, code to learn.

KNOW! know what they say.